About Ruby
Ruby Gordon is a licensed professional counselor with 15 years of experience helping people cope with stress, anxiety, depression, and big life changes. She creates an affirming space for people seeking clearer thinking, steadier mood, and kinder self-talk. Her practice also addresses trauma, grief, ADHD, and concerns around identity and sexual expression.
Her style is collaborative and person-centered. She listens first, then helps clients set practical goals. Sessions focus on real-world strategies clients can try between meetings.
Background and approach
Tools range from short behavior changes to structured thought work. Ruby uses a mix of approaches to match a person's needs. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking patterns.
Mindfulness practices are used to help settle strong emotions and build attention. Motivational interviewing and solution-focused work support goal-setting and small forward steps. With experience across many concerns, she pays attention to how background and relationships shape current struggles.
She addresses body image, attachment issues, care-related stress, and communication problems alongside mood and anxiety. Her work also includes areas such as kink and alternative sexual culture when those topics arise in therapy. Ruby holds LPC (Licensed Professional Counselor) and LCMHC credentials and practices in Georgia.
She provides direct, practical support aimed at helping people feel more capable and in charge of next steps.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person’s experience. It helps when someone needs nonjudgmental support to sort through feelings and decide what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact and teaches practical exercises to reduce anxiety and shift unhelpful thinking patterns. This approach is useful for mood, anxiety, and stress-related problems.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, try different tools, and adjust methods based on what feels most helpful. Clients and the therapist decide together whether to emphasize CBT exercises, mindfulness practices, or brief solution-focused steps as therapy progresses.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls recreate face-to-face sessions for in-depth work and real-time conversation. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging allow for shorter check-ins, quick coaching, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options provide flexibility so therapy can continue around work, caregiving, and other daily demands.
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What this counselor 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