About Ruth
Ruth Gordon is a licensed clinical social worker with 40 years of experience who helps people facing anxiety, depression, grief, relationship strain, and life transitions. She meets each person where they are and treats them as the expert on their own story. Ruth focuses on practical steps and steady support so clients can move toward clearer choices and greater stability.
Her style centers on listening closely and building a respectful, collaborative relationship.
Background and approach
She uses a mix of approaches to suit individual needs, drawing from acceptance-based work, cognitive strategies, and emotionally focused methods. Sessions emphasize understanding what matters most to the client and practicing small changes between meetings. Ruth’s background includes decades of work with people coping with family conflict, intimacy-related issues, eating and body image concerns, and end-of-life adjustments.
That experience informs how she helps people facing complex losses, caregiving stress, or difficult separations. She also supports people navigating multicultural issues and identity-related stressors, including LGBT concerns. In sessions she tends to keep language straightforward and practical.
Clients can expect goal-focused conversations, skills to manage strong emotions, and attention to patterns that keep problems stuck. Ruth aims to help people find ways to act in line with their values while reducing the impact of anxiety and worry. Ruth practices in Florida and conducts work in English.
She welcomes international clients and offers a range of remote formats to fit different schedules and needs.
How Ruth’s Approaches Translate to Online Care
Ruth uses practical, accessible approaches that adapt well to remote sessions. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting ruled by them, then take small steps toward what matters most. This approach can be useful for anxiety, stress, and coping with life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and shifting behaviors that maintain distress. It includes straightforward tools for managing worry, improving sleep, and reducing avoidance. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) works with how people experience and respond to strong emotions, which can be helpful for relationship and intimacy concerns.
Choosing the right approach is a joint process. Ruth will talk with each person about their goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust based on how things are going. That collaborative process helps clarify what skills and perspectives feel most useful over time.
Online sessions offer several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face work when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it possible to get support between sessions and fit therapy into busy days. These options give flexibility in scheduling and in how people prefer to engage with their work.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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