Ruth Burgher-Gibore
Focused, practical family and parenting support
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed in
- California, Florida
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Ruth
Ruth Burgher-Gibore is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who brings a practical, down-to-earth approach to family and parenting concerns. She draws on 23 years of clinical experience to help parents and families manage stress, anxiety, and relationship struggles. Her style is straightforward and solution-focused, aimed at making day-to-day life feel more manageable for busy households.
In sessions she uses tools from client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice patterns and try small changes.
Background and approach
She also incorporates emotionally-focused ideas when relationships need repair, and mindfulness practices when stress or trauma make it hard to stay present. Ruth explains strategies in simple language and works together with parents on realistic steps they can use at home. Her background includes work across community mental health settings, crisis intervention, grief counseling, and program management.
That variety informs a flexible approach to common family issues like parenting challenges, blended family dynamics, communication problems, and coping with illness or loss. She is licensed in California and Florida as an LMFT and has experience with a wide range of ages. Ruth adapts techniques to fit each family's needs rather than following one rigid method.
She helps families set clear goals, practice new ways of interacting, and track small improvements over time. The emphasis is on practical changes that members can use between sessions. Sessions are offered in English and are available through remote formats.
Ruth aims to partner with families who want straightforward guidance and workable strategies for everyday family life.
Approaches that translate well to online family work
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each family member without judgment. It helps parents and caregivers feel heard and supports clearer communication at home. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors affect feelings and teaches practical skills for reducing anxiety, improving sleep, and managing mood swings.Ruth uses these approaches to tailor work to each family’s needs. She will talk with parents about goals and preferences and together decide which strategies to try. This collaborative process means the therapy plan can change as families experiment with different techniques and notice what helps.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Video and phone allow real-time conversation and role-play of parenting moments, while chat and messaging can be useful for short check-ins and sharing resources. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around school, work, and caregiving responsibilities, and to practice new skills between sessions.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
Attends to the emotions underneath a recurring argument or distance, and to the attachment needs driving them. Often used where a relationship keeps returning to the same painful loop.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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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