About Ryan
Ryan Shelby Butler is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Arizona. He focuses on stress and anxiety along with other life challenges and helps people who are looking for practical, values-centered support. He speaks English and brings seven years of clinical experience to sessions.
Ryan blends person-centered care with evidence-informed tools. Sessions tend to be straightforward and goal-oriented, with an emphasis on real skills people can use between appointments.
Background and approach
He draws on cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavior approaches to teach coping strategies and improve day-to-day functioning. His background includes a Master of Science in Professional Counseling and earlier graduate work in leadership from Grand Canyon University in Phoenix, Arizona. Before counseling, he worked in higher education in roles that combined advising, analytics, and administration.
That experience shaped a practical style that respects life responsibilities and real-world limits. Ryan also integrates attachment-focused ideas and acceptance-based methods when those fit a person's goals. He often uses narrative and existential perspectives to help people connect with values and purpose.
Those elements are used alongside straightforward coaching-style guidance when helpful. Outside work he spends time with family, serves in church leadership, and enjoys reading and the outdoors. He aims to meet people where they are and help them discover tools and perspectives that make daily life feel more manageable.
To begin, prospective clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions according to availability.
How Ryan’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and decisions about what matters most in life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on changing patterns of thought and behavior to reduce symptoms like worry and low mood. It often includes practical homework and skill-building between sessions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how past relationships shape current patterns and helps people strengthen connection and emotional regulation when those patterns cause distress.Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. Ryan will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped in the past. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility for different schedules and needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text-based messaging work well for quick check-ins, ongoing coaching, or when someone prefers writing to talking. These options let people fit sessions into work, family, or travel routines while still practicing new skills and tracking changes over time.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- 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)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English
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