Ruth Gordon, LCSW - Therapist in Florida

About Ruth

Ruth Gordon is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on family and relationship concerns. She brings 40 years of experience and a calm, direct style to sessions. Ruth aims to help people untangle conflicts and move toward clearer communication and healthier routines.

Parents and family members often come with worries about grief, intimacy, or long-standing family problems. Ruth listens closely and helps identify practical steps people can try between sessions.

Background and approach

She treats anxiety, depression, stress, and issues around self-esteem and body image in ways that connect to family life. Her approach combines cognitive behavioral techniques with emotion-focused work to address patterns that keep families stuck. She also uses acceptance and commitment ideas to help people clarify values and take meaningful action.

Attachment-based ideas guide conversations about safety and trust in close relationships. Ruth works with a wide range of concerns including divorce and separation, caregiving and hospice issues, eating and food-related struggles, and multicultural or LGBT matters. She values each person’s experience and encourages clients to use their strengths to meet challenges.

Sessions are offered in English and Ruth accepts international clients. She supports people through everyday changes and major life transitions, helping them build clearer communication and more workable daily routines.

How Ruth’s approaches translate to online family work

Ruth uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes that can ease family stress. CBT is practical and often focuses on specific patterns that cause worry or conflict.

She also draws on emotionally-focused therapy to uncover the feelings behind relationship clashes and to strengthen emotional connection. EFT helps when partners or family members feel distant or when emotions keep getting in the way of solving problems.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Ruth will talk with each person or family about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Decisions about methods are collaborative and can shift as needs change.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy family lives. These options make it easier to schedule around caregiving, work, and other responsibilities while keeping continuity of care. The variety of formats also lets people choose how they express themselves and which method helps them stay engaged.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.

Attachment-Based Therapy

Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.

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.

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of issues does Ruth help with?

She addresses relationship and family conflicts, grief and loss, intimacy-related concerns, depression, anxiety, stress, and self-esteem among other topics.

What is her therapeutic style like?

Her style blends practical problem-solving with emotion-focused listening and values-based work to help families change patterns and communicate more clearly.

How much experience does she have?

Ruth has 40 years of professional experience working with individuals and families in a range of settings.

What are her credentials and where is she licensed?

She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. License: FL LCSW sw6595, based in Florida.

Which languages are supported for sessions?

Sessions are offered in English and she also accepts international clients.

How are sessions delivered?

Therapy can be done by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.

How does pricing work?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.

What should I do to begin therapy?

Choose the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.

Specialties and expertise

Top specialties

Relationship issues
Family conflicts
Grief

Also works with

Therapeutic approaches

Experience: 40 years
Licensed: Florida
Languages: English

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