Dr. Arlene Brett Gordon, LMFT

She is a licensed marriage and family therapist - LMFT - based in Florida with 25 years of clinical experience. She aims to make first steps feel manageable for people worried about relationships, parenting, or life changes.

She began her career as an early childhood schoolteacher and later led university clinics, including Nova Southeastern University's Brief Therapy Clinic and Medical Family Therapy Clinic. That mix of classroom and clinic work shaped a hands-on style that values clear goals and small, steady progress.

Her work centers on relationship and family concerns, parenting struggles, self-esteem, and coping with major life transitions. She also addresses attachment issues, caregiver stress, chronic illness or pain, communication problems, divorce and separation, and feelings of isolation.

Sessions emphasize strengths and practical solutions. Clients are treated as collaborators who help set aims and choose steps that feel doable.

The therapist looks for strengths clients may not yet recognize and uses those as a base for change. Her approach is straightforward and goal-oriented.

Conversations tend to focus on what is working, what can shift, and how to try new behaviors between sessions. That makes therapy useful for people wanting clear direction and practical tools they can apply to daily life.