About Gordon
Gordon Pfannenstiel is a licensed clinical professional counselor in Kansas with 15 years of practice. He focuses on practical help for common life struggles like anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and ADHD. Gordon aims to build a trusting, straightforward working relationship with each person he meets.
He uses a mix of conversation and structured tools to address specific problems. Sessions often include looking at thought patterns, trying new behaviors, and practicing mindful awareness.
Background and approach
Gordon also draws on relationship-focused work when partners or connection issues come up in sessions. Gordon sees clients as the experts on their own lives and looks for strengths to build on. He offers coaching-style guidance when people want clearer steps and motivational support to follow through.
Many clients appreciate a calm, practical approach that focuses on what can change now. Over his career he has helped people cope with major life transitions, grief, anger, and workplace stress. He also supports those dealing with addiction, sleep disruption, and mood challenges.
He combines client-centered listening with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and mindfulness exercises to produce realistic, manageable plans. Sessions are conversational and goal oriented. Gordon aims to make each meeting feel like a clear next step rather than an overwhelming task.
He helps people set small, doable goals and checks progress along the way.
How Gordon’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a supportive relationship. The therapist follows your lead, helps you clarify what matters, and encourages your existing strengths to guide change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and uses simple exercises to shift unhelpful patterns and improve mood and behavior.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Gordon will talk with you about your goals, try methods that fit your needs, and adjust the plan as you progress. That means you can start with one approach and move toward a different mix if something else feels more helpful.
Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful when visual cues matter, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits brief check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reminders and short updates. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules, reduce travel time, and keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Depression
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Personality disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Kansas
- Languages
- English
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