About Lisa
Lisa Butler is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in North Carolina. She focuses on practical support for people facing stress, anxiety, addictive behaviors, and major life changes. Her style is direct and compassionate, aimed at helping people find steady ways to cope.
She uses approaches such as attachment-based work, client-centered conversation, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior strategies, and emotionally-focused methods. Sessions typically focus on clear goals like managing anxiety symptoms, improving communication, or reducing harmful patterns.
Background and approach
Lisa helps clients break problems into small, manageable steps and practices new skills between meetings. With 11 years of experience, she has worked with concerns that include trauma and abuse, grief, depression, bipolar disorder, and compassion fatigue. Additional areas of focus include body image, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, codependency, substance use, and relationship communication.
Lisa addresses both immediate coping needs and longer-term patterns that keep people stuck. Her work is collaborative. She listens first, then builds a plan that fits each person’s situation and goals.
Meetings can include skill teaching, talk work, and processing emotional experiences. People choose Lisa for a practical, steady approach when life feels overwhelming. She helps clients develop tools to manage symptoms, repair relationships, and move toward clearer priorities.
Therapeutic approaches for online work and anxiety
Attachment-based therapy looks at how early relationships shape current feelings and reactions. It helps people understand patterns in relationships and build safer ways of connecting. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It teaches practical skills to manage anxiety, change unhelpful thinking, and reduce avoidance.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist partners with each person to decide whether attachment work, CBT, or a mix of methods will best address their goals. This is a collaborative process that adjusts as needs change over time.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and skill demonstrations. Phone sessions can be a good alternative when bandwidth is limited or for a focused check-in. Live chat and text messaging allow shorter, ongoing support and quick skill coaching between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and access consistent care from wherever they are.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- 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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