About Gaynor
Gaynor Butler is a licensed clinical social worker with 23 years of experience helping people handle major life stressors. She is an LCSW (Licensed Clinical Social Worker) and CSW who focuses on practical support for anxiety, grief, trauma, and family-related challenges. She uses straightforward talk and steady guidance to help people sort out what feels overwhelming.
Sessions focus on identifying patterns, learning coping skills, and trying small changes that make daily life easier.
Background and approach
Gaynor aims to create an affirming space where people with diverse identities feel seen and respected. Her background includes long-term work with people facing complicated family dynamics and identity concerns. She often helps clients manage relationship and intimacy-related problems, work stress, parenting strain, and the emotional fallout of loss.
Gaynor also supports those struggling with mood conditions like depression and bipolar disorder and with symptoms related to trauma and dissociation. In sessions she blends gentle reflection with concrete tools. Cognitive behavioral ideas help break unhelpful thinking and build new habits.
Attachment-based and emotionally focused approaches guide work on closeness, boundaries, and communication. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and mindfulness methods are used to reduce avoidance and increase values-driven action. Gaynor offers phone, video, live chat, and text-based sessions for people in Georgia.
She speaks English and works with adults who want practical, compassionate help navigating stress, identity questions, relationship trouble, or life transitions.
Therapeutic approaches that translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice what matters to them and commit to small, value-driven steps. It is useful for anxiety, avoidance, and stress when someone wants clearer priorities and action. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments. CBT is often used for anxiety, mood concerns, and changing patterns that keep problems going.Finding the best approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they choose or combine methods so sessions fit the client’s needs and temperament, and adjustments are made as progress unfolds.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper sessions that benefit from face-to-face interaction. Phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text work well for brief check-ins, coaching-style guidance, or when a client needs flexible ways to connect during a busy day.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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