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Ruth Gordon

Compassionate therapist emphasizing client strengths

LCSW Florida

Experience
40 years in practice
Focus areas
Relationship, Family, Grief
Approaches
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Languages
English
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About Ruth

Ruth Gordon is a Florida-licensed LCSW with four decades of clinical experience helping people navigate relationship difficulties, family conflict, grief, and intimacy concerns.

Background and approach

She centers the person’s experience, treating clients as experts on their own lives and building on existing strengths to address depression, anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Her work reflects a respectful, empowering stance that acknowledges how hard it can be to ask for change and how important courage is in beginning that process.

Using a mix of evidence-informed methods, Ruth combines cognitive-behavioral ideas with acceptance-oriented and attachment-focused perspectives to tailor support to each client’s needs. She also brings client-centered and emotionally focused sensibilities to conversations about eating and body image, LGBT issues, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, career difficulties, and complicated family dynamics.

Over a long career she has worked with concerns ranging from hospice and end-of-life counseling to postpartum depression, infertility-related loss, narcissistic dynamics, and multicultural issues, shaping an approach that is practical, compassionate, and grounded in real-world experience.

How evidence-informed approaches translate to online care

Ruth uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help clients identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, which can be useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and many everyday challenges. She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to support people in clarifying values and developing mindful acceptance skills that reduce struggle with difficult thoughts and feelings. Attachment-Based Therapy is another influence, offering a framework for exploring relationship patterns and improving emotional connection with others.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Ruth works with each client to determine which methods best match their goals, preferences, and the issues they bring, and she adapts techniques over time as needs evolve. This shared decision-making helps ensure therapy feels relevant and practical for real-life concerns.

Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, providing flexibility for different lifestyles and schedules. These formats make it easier to maintain continuity of care while balancing work, family, and other commitments, and they allow licensed professionals to bring therapeutic tools into clients’ day-to-day routines.

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of concerns does Ruth address?
Ruth works with relationship and family issues, grief and loss, intimacy challenges, depression, anxiety, stress, eating and body image concerns, and related areas such as career and coping with life changes.
How would you describe Ruth’s therapeutic style?
Her style is collaborative and strengths-based, blending cognitive-behavioral techniques with acceptance and attachment-informed approaches while maintaining a client-centered, emotionally focused stance.
What background and experience does she bring?
Ruth brings 40 years of professional experience, with extensive work across grief, family systems, trauma, eating-related concerns, and end-of-life counseling.
What are Ruth’s credentials and where is she based?
She is licensed as an LCSW in Florida, credential FL LCSW sw6595, and practices from that state.
Can Ruth work with clients who live outside the United States?
She accepts international clients and conducts sessions with English-speaking clients from other locations.
What session formats are offered for online work?
Available formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to accommodate different preferences and schedules.
How are fees and payment handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability, and sessions are provided through a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What steps are involved in beginning therapy?
To get started, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to the therapist’s availability.

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

Relationship issuesFamily conflictsGriefIntimacy-related issuesDepression

Also works with

Stress, AnxietyLGBTTrauma and abuseEating disordersSelf esteemCareer difficultiesCoping with life changes

Additional focus areas

Aging and geriatric issuesBody imageCommunication problemsDivorce and separationEating and food-related issuesFamily of origin issuesFamily problemsForgivenessGuilt and shameHospice and end-of-life counselingInfidelityMulticultural concernsNarcissismPhobiasPostpartum depressionSeasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)Self-loveWomen's issues

Therapeutic approaches

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)Attachment-Based TherapyClient-Centered TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)Existential TherapyGottman MethodMindfulness TherapyMotivational InterviewingNarrative TherapyPsychodynamic TherapySolution-Focused TherapyTrauma-Focused TherapyInternal Family Systems

Experience

40+ years

Licensed

Florida

Languages

English