Lisa Butler
Practical, relationship-focused therapy for parents
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed in
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Lisa
Lisa Butler is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on practical, person-centered therapy. She uses straightforward, evidence-based methods to help people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, and family challenges. Lisa speaks in plain language and aims to make sessions feel calm and constructive for parents and individuals under pressure.
She draws from Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and Emotionally-Focused Therapy. Those methods are woven into short-term tools and longer-term work, depending on what a person needs.
Background and approach
Lisa helps people notice patterns, build coping skills, and change unhelpful thinking or interaction habits. Her practice pays particular attention to relationship patterns and parenting concerns. She supports people dealing with grief, trauma, mood conditions, and caregiving stress.
She also works with issues like body image, substance use, and blended family dynamics. Lisa brings 11 years of experience as an LCSW in North Carolina and uses a warm, collaborative style. Sessions are aimed at clear goals such as improving communication, managing strong emotions, or creating routines that help sleep and daily function.
In therapy she offers practical exercises, reflective conversation, and skill-building tailored to each person. The work focuses on small, achievable steps parents and adults can take to reduce distress and improve family life. She welcomes people who want steady support while they make changes.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. Online sessions use that lens to look at connection styles and improve how people relate to partners and family members. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and replace them with practical alternatives; it is useful for anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating concerns and adapts well to exercises done between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each client to choose methods that match personal goals, needs, and comfort. Together they decide whether to focus on skills like emotion regulation, changing thinking patterns, or repairing relationship interactions based on what feels most useful.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone meetings, live chat, and text-based messaging. Those options make it easier to fit sessions into busy family schedules and to continue work during transitions or travel. The variety of formats allows for skill practice, check-ins, and longer sessions as needed, helping people stay consistent with therapy while managing daily responsibilities.
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.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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