About Corita
Corita Gordon is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Missouri with 20 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and mood concerns while guiding them through difficult life changes. She works with individuals who are dealing with relationship strain, family conflict, parenting challenges, and intimacy-related issues.
Corita also supports people coping with compassion fatigue, addictions, anger, low self-esteem, career concerns, and LGBT-related matters. Her practice includes help for trauma and abuse and for those living with bipolar disorder.
How Corita works
Corita aims to create an open, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk about their thoughts and feelings. Sessions center on listening, practical problem solving, and finding steps clients can try between meetings. She encourages small changes that add up to better daily functioning and clearer decision making.
Her background includes two decades of work in mental health settings across Missouri. That experience informs a practical style that balances understanding with action. Corita helps people set reachable goals and track progress over time.
Starting therapy is framed as a courageous step and an ongoing process. Corita offers steady support while helping clients discover what works for them and how to make sustainable changes.
What Corita works with
The areas below are the ones Corita selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Missouri |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Corita uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and emotional understanding. One common approach she relies on helps people learn skills to manage stress and anxiety by teaching coping strategies, relaxation methods, and clearer ways to reframe upsetting thoughts. Another approach centers on processing trauma and abuse in a paced way that reduces reactivity and helps people build safety and stability in daily life.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Corita works with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. Together they review what’s helping, adjust strategies, and set small goals to measure progress over time.
Online therapy with her uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for focused conversations and reading nonverbal cues, while phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging can be helpful for quick check-ins, brief coping reminders, or when a shorter, more flexible touchpoint fits a busy day. These options allow therapy to fit around work, family, and travel.
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A practical next step
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