About Raymond
Raymond Butts is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) with 30 years of experience in counseling and education. He draws on classroom and community work to help people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, depression, and other life challenges. He began as an elementary special education teacher and later earned a Master of Education in Counselor Education in 1989.
Raymond spent many years working in Alaskan school districts as a teacher, itinerant school counselor, and village school principal.
Background and approach
Those roles shaped his hands-on, straightforward style. After leaving Alaska, he worked with young children in school counseling before moving into military and family life counseling in 2009. That mix of school and military-related experience gives him perspective on caregiver stress, first responder issues, veteran and armed forces concerns, and the strains of major life transitions.
Raymond favors an approach that centers the client. He uses Client-Centered Therapy along with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Solution-Focused methods to address coping skills, problem solving, and trauma-related concerns. He aims to help people identify practical steps they can use between sessions.
Sessions focus on clear goals and small changes that add up. Raymond works with people dealing with grief, relationship and communication problems, addiction concerns, anger, ADHD, and mood disorders. He offers flexible session formats to fit different schedules and needs.
How Raymond’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting what matters to the person. It helps people feel heard and choose the goals they want to work toward, useful for anxiety, low self-esteem, and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. It teaches practical tools for managing anxious thoughts, mood changes, and coping skills that can be practiced between sessions.
Solution-Focused Therapy concentrates on strengths and small, achievable steps. This approach is helpful when someone wants quick, practical changes for things like stress, communication problems, or commitment concerns.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. Raymond works collaboratively to match methods to a person’s goals, needs, and preferences rather than imposing a single technique. He checks in regularly and adjusts the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation, phone works when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule and reach people who cannot attend in person.
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What this therapist works with
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- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- 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
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Alaska, Missouri, Maine, Arizona
- Languages
- English
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