About Gordon
Gordon Pfannenstiel is a licensed clinical professional counselor (LCPC) practicing in Kansas. He has 15 years of experience helping people who feel stuck by depression, anxiety, or low self-esteem. He emphasizes a respectful, collaborative relationship and encourages each person to use their own strengths in change.
Clients can expect direct, simple conversations about what matters most. Gordon listens first, then helps people set clear goals and small steps forward. He blends practical problem-solving with attention to how feelings and thoughts shape daily life.
How Gordon works
His work often focuses on relationships, motivation, and coping with big life changes. Gordon also addresses stress, grief, sleep problems, anger, addictions, and workplace struggles. He supports people dealing with mood and personality concerns, and helps those navigating separation, control issues, or questions about life purpose.
In sessions he uses techniques from client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy to challenge unhelpful patterns and build new habits. He also draws on mindfulness practices to help people calm their thinking and on motivational interviewing to boost readiness for change. The Gottman Method informs his way of addressing intimacy-related concerns and relationship skills.
Gordon aims to make therapy straightforward and actionable. He helps people break problems into manageable steps and track progress over time. Taking the first step can feel hard, and he offers steady support while clients work toward clearer goals.
Gordon lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Gordon works with
The areas below are the ones Gordon selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Depression
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Personality disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Kansas |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches adapt to online care
Client-centered therapy emphasizes understanding each person's perspective and making the session feel collaborative. In practice this means the therapist listens carefully, follows the client's lead, and focuses on what the person identifies as most important. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, targets the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and uses exercises to change unhelpful patterns; it can help with anxiety, depression, and sleep problems through concrete strategies and homework.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work together. Gordon will help identify which methods fit a person's needs and goals and will adjust techniques as progress is made. The process is collaborative and goal oriented so clients can see what is helping and suggest changes along the way.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for in-depth sessions, phone meetings can be used when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging works well for shorter check-ins or when people prefer typing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, keep continuity during life transitions, and try different formats to find what feels most effective.
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Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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