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Ruth Gordon, LCSW

  • Experience40 years
  • LocationFlorida
  • Focus areasRelationship, Family, and Grief
  • Therapy approachesInternal Family Systems and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
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About Ruth

Ruth Gordon is a Florida-licensed LCSW with four decades of clinical experience supporting people facing relationship strains, family conflict, grief, intimacy concerns, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. She emphasizes the client’s own expertise in their story and seeks to bolster existing strengths while guiding clients through change.

Background and approach

Ruth frames the work as collaborative and empowering, helping clients take courageous steps toward greater satisfaction and emotional balance. Her practice brings together approaches that honor both emotion and practical skills, using evidence-informed techniques to address issues such as self-esteem, career stress, eating and body-image concerns, multicultural dynamics, and caregiving or end-of-life challenges.

Ruth also attends to forgiveness, communication breakdowns, and the impacts of trauma or abuse. With a warm, respectful stance, she supports people through the practical and emotional work needed to navigate separation, loss, and shifting family roles.

How Ruth's Approaches Translate to Online Therapy

Internal Family Systems (IFS) views the mind as made up of different parts that hold feelings, memories, and protective strategies; in therapy this approach helps clients understand and harmonize those internal voices to ease internal conflict and relieve distress. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) combines acceptance strategies with values-driven action, helping people tolerate difficult thoughts while committing to meaningful life changes and coping with anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relational patterns shape current relationships and emotional responses, supporting healing in connection and improving communication and intimacy.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Ruth will work together with each client to clarify goals, assess which methods fit best, and adapt interventions over time based on what feels most helpful and practical for the individual’s needs and preferences.

Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility for different schedules and comfort levels. These options make it easier to maintain consistent work on relationship, grief, or mood concerns from wherever the client is located, and can support continuity when life circumstances make in-person visits difficult.

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does Ruth commonly address in therapy?
She works with a broad set of issues including relationship and family problems, grief and loss, intimacy-related issues, depression, anxiety, trauma and abuse, eating and body-image concerns, career stress, and coping with life changes.
What is Ruth's general therapeutic style?
Her style is client-centered and collaborative, emphasizing the client's strengths and life experience while blending emotion-focused and skill-based techniques to support change.
How much clinical experience does Ruth have?
Ruth brings 40 years of professional experience to her practice, applying that background to a wide range of personal and relational concerns.
What are Ruth's credentials and where is she based?
Ruth holds the LCSW credential and is licensed in Florida under FL LCSW sw6595.
Can I work with Ruth if I'm outside the United States?
Yes, she accepts international clients and conducts sessions in English.
In what formats are sessions offered?
Sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to accommodate different preferences.
How is pricing handled for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What steps are needed to begin working together?
To get started, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule 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