Gemma Gordon
Practical, compassionate social worker for relationships
AASW Australia
- Experience
- 10 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Relationship, Family, Grief
- Approaches
- Gottman Method, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Languages
- English
About Gemma
Gemma Gordon is a social worker with ten years' experience helping people through relationship strain, grief and questions about intimacy. She brings a warm, practical style and aims to make difficult conversations feel manageable.
Background and approach
Gemma uses a compassionate, person-focused approach to help people reconnect with their values and strengths. She works with everyday problems like communication breakdowns, separation and divorce, and low self-esteem.
Gemma also supports people dealing with abandonment, attachment worries, loneliness and finding life purpose. Her background includes assessments, short-term counselling and linking people to practical community resources.
In sessions she keeps things straightforward. Gemma listens closely, asks clear questions and helps people set small, achievable steps.
Therapy can include emotional work around grief or intimacy, practical communication skills, and building self-love and forgiveness over time. Gemma draws on a mix of relationship-focused methods and acceptance-based therapies.
The Gottman Method and Emotionally-Focused Therapy inform how she approaches interactions and attachment. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people identify values and act on them despite difficult feelings.
People can expect a respectful, down-to-earth tone and collaborative planning. Gemma aims to make the process feel calm and constructive, helping each person move toward clearer goals and healthier ways of relating.
How relationship and acceptance approaches work online
Gemma uses the Gottman Method to look at everyday interaction patterns and simple skills that improve how people communicate and manage conflict. This approach focuses on practical tools like turn-taking, repair attempts and building fondness in relationships.She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) which helps people clarify what matters to them and take action even when feelings are hard. ACT is useful for people dealing with grief, low self-esteem or ongoing emotional pain. Attachment-Based Therapy informs her work on how early connection styles influence current relationship patterns and intimacy concerns.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Gemma will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and adapt methods to suit those needs. Together they decide which ideas to try first and review progress over time.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video suits deeper conversations and visual cues, phone works when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and messaging supports ongoing contact between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work and family life and to keep momentum between meetings.
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Areas of expertise
Primary focus
Additional focus areas
Therapeutic approaches
Experience
10+ years
Registered with
AASW
Languages
English