About Gordon
Gordon Leith uses a practical, person-centered approach to help people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, career changes, grief, and relationship concerns. He is a Licensed Professional Counselor, and he frames sessions around each person's goals and strengths. Gordon writes plainly and listens carefully to what matters most to the individual in front of him.
He has worked in counseling settings since the early 1990s, with a Master of Arts in Counseling and dual specializations in community mental health and substance abuse treatment.
Background and approach
Much of his career has combined independent practice with work in treatment facilities and assignments with federal safety agencies. He provided Department of Transportation back-to-work evaluations as a Substance Abuse Professional from 2005 to 2018 and plans to re-enter that work in mid-2024.
Gordon has many years of experience using hypnosis in individual sessions and blends that with client-centered, cognitive behavioral, and emotionally focused approaches when appropriate. He aims to help people build confidence, improve coping skills, and make practical changes that match their values. Sessions focus on concrete steps the client can try between meetings.
Although he currently sees adults one-to-one online, his earlier work included a wide range of settings and age groups. He emphasizes collaboration - helping clients name clear goals, trying methods that fit their life, and adjusting when something isn't working. People who reach out can expect straightforward conversation, practical skill-building, and support for difficult transitions.
Gordon frames therapy as a partnership where the client's knowledge of their own life guides the work together.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions
Gordon draws on client-centered work and cognitive behavioral methods to structure online sessions. Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding the person's experience and building on their strengths; it helps when someone needs a supportive space to sort priorities and make decisions. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at thoughts and behaviors to identify small experiments and coping skills that reduce anxiety, manage mood, or change unhelpful patterns.He also uses emotionally focused ideas to help people notice and shift patterns in close relationships and to deepen emotional awareness. Finding the right mix of methods is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try approaches that fit their preferences, and adjust the plan based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, which makes scheduling more flexible. Video is useful when visual cues matter, phone calls can work well when bandwidth is limited, text or live chat suits brief check-ins or day-to-day coaching, and all formats let people fit therapy into work or family routines more easily.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 34 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English