About Ruth
Ruth Burgher-Gibore is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 23 years of experience. She offers straightforward, practical help for people dealing with anxiety, depression, stress, trauma, relationship problems, and ADHD. Ruth speaks English and practices from California as a California LMFT and Florida LMFT.
She draws on client-centered methods to build a respectful, listening-first relationship. Sessions focus on what matters most to the person in front of her. Ruth uses techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy to break unhelpful thought and behavior patterns.
Background and approach
She also brings emotionally-focused ideas to work on connection and communication in relationships. Her background includes counseling across many life stages and roles. That work has included grief support, crisis intervention, career counseling, and program leadership in community mental health settings.
Ruth has helped people coping with addiction, chronic illness, parenting strain, and changes like separation or loss. Ruth favors a solution-oriented approach when appropriate. She helps people set clear goals and practice small changes that add up over time.
Mindfulness tools are offered when they fit a person's needs, to manage stress and improve focus. In sessions she aims for clear, practical steps alongside empathic listening. People can expect conversations that identify immediate concerns and map out next steps, whether the focus is mood, relationships, or daily functioning.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely and helping each person lead the process. Online sessions use that same listening-first stance so goals come from the client rather than a preset plan. This approach helps when someone needs validation, clearer priorities, or support making decisions.Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete strategies to change them. In remote sessions, CBT tools often include thought records, behavioral experiments, and homework tasks that can be reviewed over video or messaging to track progress.
Emotionally-focused therapy concentrates on how people connect and communicate in close relationships. Online formats allow partners or individuals to practice new ways of speaking and responding between sessions, with the therapist guiding that learning during video work.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about their goals, try approaches that fit those goals, and adjust as needed. Clients are invited to give feedback so therapy stays practical and relevant.
Online formats offer flexibility for different needs. Video calls are useful for full-session work and observing interactional patterns. Phone sessions can be lower bandwidth and easier to fit into a break. Live chat or text-based messaging works well for brief check-ins, homework review, or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to keep continuity of care while fitting therapy into daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- California, Florida
- Languages
- English
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