Dr. Arlene Brett Gordon, LMFT

Dr. Arlene Brett Gordon, Ph.D., LMFT, brings 25 years of professional experience to her work with individuals, couples, and families. Her Ph.D. denotes a Doctor of Philosophy degree and her LMFT credential indicates she is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, a clinician trained to address relationship and family dynamics in clinical practice.

Her career began as an early childhood schoolteacher and later expanded into clinical leadership. She served as director of Nova Southeastern University’s Brief Therapy Clinic for 16 years and also led the university’s Medical Family Therapy Clinic. After moving away from teaching therapy, she focused on direct therapeutic work, applying a strength-based, solution-focused approach that positions clients as collaborators in reshaping problem-saturated stories.

Dr. Gordon has developed expertise in relationship and family conflicts, parenting challenges, motivation, self-esteem, and coping with major life transitions. She also addresses a range of related concerns including attachment issues, caregiver stress, chronic illness and disability, communication difficulties, divorce and separation, isolation and loneliness, life purpose and midlife transition, post-traumatic stress, and women’s issues.

In sessions she emphasizes clients’ existing strengths and capacities, often helping people identify resources and abilities they had not previously recognized. Dr. Gordon approaches therapeutic work with a focus on practical change and collaborative problem solving, viewing the decision to seek therapy as an early and important step toward positive change.