About Ruby
Ruby Gordon is a licensed counselor with 15 years of experience helping people cope with anxiety, stress, depression, ADHD, grief, and relationship challenges. She offers straightforward support for common struggles like low self-esteem, anger, sleep or eating problems, and big life changes. Her style is warm and direct, with an emphasis on practical steps people can try between sessions.
Ruby uses a collaborative, person-centered approach that begins with listening closely to each person's story.
Background and approach
She works with clients to set clear, realistic goals and to notice patterns that get in the way of day-to-day functioning. Many clients appreciate short-term strategies for managing emotions alongside longer-term work on attachment and identity concerns. Her background includes work with people facing trauma, compassion fatigue, caregiver stress, and issues tied to gender and sexual identity.
She also addresses specific concerns such as body image, codependency, commitment and communication problems, and first responder stress. Ruby pays attention to co-occurring conditions like bipolar disorder and disruptive mood dysregulation and tailors plans accordingly. Sessions blend practical tools and reflective conversation.
Techniques draw from cognitive behavioral methods, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused work. When helpful, she explores family of origin dynamics and attachment patterns to make sense of current difficulties. Ruby practices in Georgia and holds the LPC and LCMHC credentials.
She offers multiple session formats to fit different schedules and preferences, aiming to make care accessible and useful from the first meeting.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to what matters most to each person. It helps people feel heard and helps guide sessions around their priorities rather than a preset agenda. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical strategies to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change unhelpful patterns.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk through goals, try methods that suit the person's needs, and adjust the plan based on what is helpful. That collaboration lets the therapist mix short-term tools and longer-term exploration as needed.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for in-depth conversations and visual cues, while phone or chat can fit a quick check-in or a lower-bandwidth option. Text and messaging are useful for brief updates, coaching-style support, or when someone wants ongoing prompts between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to use methods like CBT and mindfulness across different settings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia
- Languages
- English
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