Janelle Butler
Compassionate care with practical skills
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed in
- Washington
- Languages
- English, American Sign Language
- Format
- Online sessions
About Janelle
Janelle Butler is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) who focuses on concerns such as stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, addictions, grief, trauma, parenting, and relationship issues. She speaks English and American Sign Language. Janelle brings nine years of clinical experience and works with people across Washington and beyond, including international clients.
Her approach aims to help individuals notice patterns that cause pain and find workable ways to respond differently. Janelle draws on several evidence-based methods to guide her work.
Background and approach
She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thoughts and change them. She also incorporates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people make room for difficult feelings while taking steps that match their values. Attachment-Based ideas inform how she views relationships and repair.
In sessions she emphasizes practical skills and clear steps. People can expect to talk through recent struggles, identify repetitive patterns, and try tools to shift how they react. Progress is often gradual, and she frames change as something built over time with consistent effort.
Her prior work in community mental health exposed her to many backgrounds and life situations. That experience shaped a flexible, down-to-earth style that balances support with skill-building. Janelle aims to restore hope while helping clients develop concrete strategies for coping and growth.
She notes that lasting change usually involves both immediate strategies and longer-term work. Her goal is to help clients move from feeling stuck to having clearer choices and more steady emotional footing.
How Janelle Integrates Therapy Approaches Online
Janelle uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help people spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating concerns. She also draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to teach people how to accept difficult feelings while taking actions that match their values, a helpful approach for chronic stress, grief, and life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy guides her thinking about how past relationship patterns affect current connections and communication.Finding the right approach is part of therapy itself. Janelle works collaboratively with each person to pick methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. She checks in over time and adapts plans based on what is helpful and what feels realistic for the client.
Online sessions are offered via video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility and access. These formats let people fit work into busy days, keep continuity during life changes, and use different ways of communicating when talking aloud feels hard. Licensed professionals can provide tools, teach skills, and help track progress using these remote options.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English, American Sign Language
Next step
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