Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Depression
How Ruby works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Years in practice
- 13
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Ruby
Ruby Coopersmith is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Florida with 13 years of experience. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, anger, addiction, depression, and relationship strain. Her approach is calm and straightforward, focused on practical skills that make daily life easier.
Ruby adapts sessions to each person's needs. She uses client-centered listening to learn what matters most to the person in front of her. From there she may add cognitive-behavioral tools or solution-focused steps to tackle specific problems like sleep, eating concerns, or coping with big life changes.
Background and approach
She also works with grief, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, parenting worries, and issues around intimacy and communication. Ruby teaches skills such as assertive communication, boundary setting, and identifying unhelpful core beliefs. Those tools are offered in short, usable steps to practice between sessions.
Her way of working values respect and steadiness. Sessions aim to be nonjudgmental and supportive while still moving toward the client’s goals. Ruby places importance on building trust and a real rapport before introducing new strategies.
People who want clear techniques and a thoughtful listener may find her helpful. Her background includes couple work and a certificate in marriage and family counseling alongside a master’s degree in counseling education. She invites people to take the first step toward change, whether the issue feels small or large.
What Ruby works with
Everything Ruby lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Ruby's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Depression
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Workplace issues
Approaches Ruby lists
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to what the person says. This approach helps people feel heard and clarifies what they want to change in their life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and then teaches practical steps to shift unhelpful patterns. CBT is useful for anxiety, sleep trouble, and managing moods. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills and can help with strong reactions like anger or intense mood swings.Finding the right approach is a shared task. Ruby will work together with each person to pick methods that match their goals and daily routines. She often starts with listening and then adds CBT or DBT techniques when those tools seem helpful, adjusting the plan as needed.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people work face to face when visual cues matter. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging allow for shorter check-ins or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to try different formats until the right fit is found.
Questions people ask about Ruby
What kinds of issues does Ruby help with?
She supports people with stress, anxiety, anger, addiction, depression, relationship and family concerns, grief, trauma, sleep and eating problems, and career or life-change challenges.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Ruby works in a calm, client-centered way and emphasizes building trust first. She uses clear, practical techniques to help people practice new skills between sessions.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 13 years of experience providing individual and couples counseling across a range of concerns.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, listed as FL LMHC, and practices from Florida.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English only and international clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be done by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions are provided through a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I get started with Ruby?
Click the Start Therapy button, fill out a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule a time based on therapist availability.