About Ruth
Ruth Burgher-Gibore is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 23 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship struggles. Ruth offers straightforward, practical support for everyday problems and big life changes.
She uses a client-centered approach that puts the person's goals and values first. Sessions often include cognitive behavioral tools to notice and change unhelpful thoughts and habits. Emotion-focused methods help people name emotions and improve connection in relationships.
Background and approach
Ruth has worked across community clinics and programs providing therapy, case management, crisis support, grief counseling, and career guidance. That background informs a flexible, problem-solving style that aims to fit each person's situation. She has experience with trauma and with a wide range of concerns including addictions, sleep and eating issues, parenting, and compassion fatigue.
Her practice in California includes support for people facing abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, chronic illness, codependency, divorce, and substance use concerns. Ruth also works with clients dealing with caregiving and aging challenges, blended family dynamics, and communication problems. Sessions are focused and goal-oriented.
Ruth helps people set small, doable steps and checks progress each week. She combines practical strategies with attention to feelings and meaning, so clients feel heard while making measurable change.
How Ruth’s Approaches Translate to Online Therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding each person’s goals and pacing work around their needs. In online sessions that means the therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears, and helps clients set clear, personal goals they want to reach.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. In remote sessions Ruth can guide thought records, behavioral experiments, and homework that fit daily routines to reduce anxiety or lift mood.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people identify and express core emotions that affect relationships. Over video or messaging she can coach healthier ways to share feelings and improve connection with partners or family members.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try methods that seem likely to help, and adjust as progress is tracked. That collaborative process helps match methods to the person rather than following one fixed plan.
Online formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging - make therapy easier to fit into life. Video is useful for full sessions and nonverbal cues. Phone works well when bandwidth is limited or the session needs to be less visual. Live chat and texting are suited to quick check-ins, skill practice, or brief coaching between sessions. These options give flexibility so people can keep consistent momentum toward their goals.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- California, Florida
- Languages
- English
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