About Ruth
Ruth Gordon is a licensed clinical social worker in Florida with 40 years of experience. She helps people who are facing relationship strain, grief, anxiety, depression, and challenges around intimacy. Ruth aims to make therapy approachable and practical for people juggling busy lives and hard feelings.
She starts by listening to each person’s story and identifying their strengths. Ruth believes clients know themselves best and she builds on what is already working.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear, usable steps you can try between meetings as well as on understanding patterns that keep problems repeating. Ruth uses a mix of approaches to fit different needs. She draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to tackle unhelpful thoughts and on emotion-focused work to deepen understanding of how feelings drive behavior.
Attachment-based perspectives guide conversations about closeness, trust, and intimacy concerns. Across sessions she emphasizes practical coping skills for stress and life changes. Whether someone is grieving, dealing with family conflict, or rethinking career choices, Ruth helps people break issues into manageable parts.
The goal is steady progress rather than quick fixes. Her background includes long-term practice in Florida and many years supporting adults through relationship and life transition concerns. Ruth combines experience with a calm, respectful manner and offers straightforward guidance tailored to each person’s situation.
How Ruth’s Approaches Work Online
Ruth blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy into online work. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying small experiments to change them, which can help with anxiety, depression, and stress. Attachment-based work looks at patterns of closeness and trust in relationships, helping people understand how early experiences shape current reactions.Finding the right approach is a team effort. Ruth talks with each person about goals, preferences, and what has helped before. Together they decide whether to emphasize thought-focused work, relationship patterns, or a mix of methods and adjust that plan over time.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper emotional work, phone sessions can be easier on low bandwidth, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging fits people who prefer written reflection. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and keep progress moving between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also works with
- 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