Ruth Burgher-Gibore, LMFT

Ruth Burgher-Gibore is an LMFT with 23 years of clinical experience. She practices in California and brings a warm, practical style to sessions. Ruth focuses on helping people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, and midlife transitions. Ruth uses client-centered methods to build a respectful, collaborative connection in the room. She also draws on cognitive behavioral strategies to help people spot unhelpful thinking and try small behavior changes. Emotion-focused ideas inform work on attachment and closeness in relationships. Her background includes counseling across many life stages and settings. That work ranges from grief and loss to addiction and long-term medical challenges. She has led community mental health programs and offered crisis intervention and career counseling alongside therapy. Ruth has experience supporting people through trauma and related symptoms, as well as addressing parenting concerns, blended family challenges, and issues tied to adoption and abandonment. She also helps with eating and sleeping difficulties, bipolar concerns, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Sessions tend to be goal-oriented and solution focused. Ruth helps people set practical steps they can try between meetings. She works with individuals and with relational concerns, using clear language and straightforward techniques to make change feel manageable.

How these approaches translate to online therapy

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a respectful, trusting connection. In practice this means sessions start by hearing what matters most and shaping goals around the person's priorities. It helps people who want an empathetic space to clarify feelings and choices.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses simple experiments and homework to test new ways of thinking and behaving. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and managing stress with concrete steps.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That process may combine listening-focused work with CBT tools or emotion-focused interventions where relationships are central.

The original biography does not list specific online or phone formats. Confirm current session options before booking so you know what is offered. Many people find online sessions easier to fit into a busy week, require less travel, and make it simpler to follow up between meetings. If you need shorter check-ins, help fitting sessions around work, or less time on camera, discuss those needs when you schedule to see what can be arranged.