Dr. Jo-Linda Butterfield
Compassionate psychologist for family transitions
- Credentials
- MD
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Jo-Linda
Dr. Jo-Linda Butterfield is a Maryland-based MD psychologist with 20 years of experience helping people manage family and life transitions. She speaks plainly about stress, anxiety, grief, parenting challenges, ADHD, and relationship strains.
She also offers coaching-style support for motivation, career decisions, and developing practical routines. Her approach blends clinical skills and coaching methods to set clear goals and workable steps. Sessions focus on real-life problem solving - improving sleep, reducing overwhelm, building confidence, and handling caregiving or end-of-life concerns.
Background and approach
She draws on hospice and end-of-life counseling experience when those topics arise. Dr. Butterfield has worked in many settings including hospitals, assisted living, rehab centers, schools, and independent practice.
That variety informs how she adapts strategies to each person’s situation. Her training includes coaching credentials used alongside her clinical work to help maintain progress. In sessions she helps clients break big problems into small, doable actions.
Conversations aim to clarify values, identify strengths, and build simple routines that support change. She combines emotional support with practical planning so people can move forward at their own pace. Reaching out can feel hard, and she acknowledges that courage.
The work is collaborative: setting goals together, tracking steps, and adjusting plans as needed. Her focus is on helping people find steady, realistic paths toward better balance and wellbeing.
Evidence-Informed Approaches for Online Care
Dr. Butterfield often combines clinical therapy with coaching techniques to help people tackle practical problems. Clinical methods focus on identifying unhelpful patterns and learning new ways to respond to stress and anxiety, which helps with sleep, mood, and daily functioning.Her coaching-informed work concentrates on goal setting and accountability. This approach helps when someone wants to build routines, overcome procrastination, or take steps toward career or parenting goals. It is action-oriented and geared toward measurable progress.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. She works collaboratively with each person to choose strategies that match their needs, goals, and preferences. Treatment plans are adjusted over time based on what is working and what needs change.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These formats offer flexibility for busy schedules, allow follow-up between sessions, and make it easier to keep therapy consistent when life gets hectic. Licensed professionals can use these tools to offer regular support and practical coaching from wherever a client is located within the supported region.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Self esteem
Also works with
- ADHD
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Parenting issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
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