Dr. Arlene Brett Gordon

Dr. Arlene Brett Gordon, LMFT, focuses on helping people facing relationship strain, family conflict, parenting struggles, and concerns common to women. She talks plainly about everyday problems. Her tone is practical and encouraging for someone who may be tired or unsure about starting therapy.

She draws on 25 years of experience as a couple and family therapist in Florida. Earlier in her career she taught young children, then directed Nova Southeastern University's Brief Therapy Clinic and its Medical Family Therapy Clinic for many years. That background shaped her interest in straightforward, strength-based work that highlights what already works in a person's life.

In sessions she uses a solution-focused, strengths-based approach. She helps people identify small, practical changes that can loosen long-standing patterns. The work often looks like setting clear, doable goals and trying new ways of communicating and relating between sessions.

Clients come for help with confidence and self-esteem, parenting and caregiving stress, major life transitions, divorce and separation, and managing chronic illness or pain. She also supports people dealing with attachment concerns, isolation, and questions about life purpose.

Dr. Gordon aims to create a collaborative space where clients notice strengths they may not have seen before. She encourages concrete steps and realistic experiments that build momentum toward change. To begin, people answer a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.

How evidence-based techniques are used in online therapy

Dr. Gordon uses evidence-based, practical techniques that focus on strengths and solutions. A strengths-based approach looks for what a person or relationship already does well and builds on those elements to create change. It helps when someone feels stuck and needs a clearer view of their own abilities.

A solution-focused approach centers on setting small, achievable goals and testing new behaviors between sessions. This method is helpful for relationship problems, parenting challenges, and coping with life transitions because it emphasizes concrete steps over lengthy analysis.

Choosing the right method is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to find which combination of approaches fits their goals and preferences. That choice can change over time as needs shift and progress is made.

If you are considering online therapy, confirm the current session options before booking since formats are not specified here. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when that suits a person's day. It can also let people try interventions between meetings in real life and bring those experiences back to discuss with the therapist.