About Gordon
Gordon Leith is a licensed professional counselor with decades of clinical experience. He works with adults one-on-one and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, mood challenges, and life transitions. Gordon holds a Texas LPC license and brings a calm, practical approach to sessions.
He earned a Master of Arts in Counseling with dual specializations in community mental health and substance abuse treatment from St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas.
Background and approach
Over a long career he has worked in independent practice, inpatient and outpatient treatment settings, and on assignments with federal safety agencies. From 2005 to 2018 he provided Substance Abuse Professional Department of Transportation back-to-work evaluations and plans to resume that work in mid-2024. Gordon blends body-focused methods with client-centered conversation and evidence-based techniques.
He uses somatic awareness to help people notice how stress shows up in the body, and combines that with practical cognitive and emotional work. He has also used hypnotherapy in his individual practice for the past 20 years. Typical concerns he addresses include grief, relationship and intimacy issues, self-esteem, sleep and eating difficulties, ADHD, bipolar disorder, and compassion fatigue.
He also helps people sort through career decisions, addiction-related struggles, and complex life changes. Sessions are offered online by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Gordon describes therapy as a collaborative process where the client’s goals guide the work, and he aims to help people build the skills and awareness they need to move forward.
How somatic and conversation-focused therapies work online
Somatic-informed work helps people notice how stress and emotion appear in the body. In online sessions this can mean guiding gentle breath or body awareness exercises and noticing physical reactions while talking about difficult topics. Client-centered therapy focuses on following the client's lead and creating space for honest conversation; the therapist listens closely and adjusts to what the person needs in the moment. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors to find practical steps that reduce distress and change unhelpful patterns.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The therapist collaborates with each person to identify goals, try different techniques, and find what feels most helpful. That might mean combining body awareness, emotional work, and cognitive strategies until a good fit is reached.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy lives or mobility limits. Sessions by video, phone, live chat, or text make it easier to keep therapy consistent. These formats let adults work on stress, relationships, addiction concerns, grief, mood, and daily coping from home or wherever they are, while still getting guided support from a licensed professional.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- 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