Ruth Gordon, LCSW
Florida · 40 years in practice
Ruth Gordon is a Florida-based Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 40 years of clinical experience.
License and registration
- LCSW, Florida
- sw6595 · expires March 2027
- NPI
- 1831273572 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 40
- Languages
- English
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About Ruth
Ruth Gordon is a Florida-based Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 40 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who are struggling with relationships, grief, intimacy challenges, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Ruth aims to meet people where they are and build on their existing strengths.
Ruth believes people are the experts on their own stories. In sessions she listens carefully and helps clients name what matters most.
Background and approach
She offers an encouraging, practical style that supports steady steps toward clearer goals. Her work draws on approaches that help clients connect feelings to actions. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps untangle strong emotions in close relationships.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy supports values-based choices when anxiety or depression get in the way. Ruth also uses attachment-based ideas and cognitive behavioral tools to spot unhelpful patterns and try new behaviors. She helps people repair communication, rebuild trust after betrayal, and cope with the pain of loss.
Clients often come for short-term help with a specific problem or longer work through deeper issues. Ruth supports practical steps like improving communication, managing stress, and navigating major life changes. She encourages steady progress at a pace people can manage.
Ruth offers sessions in English and works with people from a variety of backgrounds. Her practice includes concerns across relationships, family issues, eating and body image struggles, multicultural questions, caregiving and end-of-life matters, and other life stressors.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Ruth lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Depression
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Women's issues
Approaches Ruth names
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How Ruth’s Approaches Work Online
Emotionally-Focused Therapy focuses on identifying and reshaping strong emotions that affect close relationships. It helps people notice patterns in emotional reactions and learn new ways to connect and respond in important relationships.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters most and take actions that fit those values even when difficult thoughts or feelings arise. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions where motivation and direction are needed.
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at early patterns of connection and how they show up now. It helps people understand their needs and learn more supported ways of relating to others.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Ruth will talk with clients about their goals and preferences and together decide which methods to try. That may mean blending ideas from EFT, ACT, attachment work, or cognitive-behavioral techniques based on the client's needs.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people see facial cues and practice new communication in real time. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging let clients share thoughts between sessions, track progress, or get brief support without scheduling a full call. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of problems does she address?
Ruth helps people with relationship and family concerns, grief and loss, intimacy issues, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, eating and body image concerns, and coping with life changes.
What is her therapeutic style like?
She combines emotionally focused work with acceptance and commitment ideas and cognitive behavioral tools to connect feelings to actions and try new behaviors.
How much clinical experience does she have?
Ruth has 40 years of professional experience working with people across a wide range of concerns and life stages.
Where is Ruth licensed and located?
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) licensed in Florida and practices from that region.
Which languages does she use in sessions?
Sessions are offered in English and she also accepts international clients.
What formats are available for sessions?
Sessions are available as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How are sessions paid for and what do they cost?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
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