About Treneva
Treneva Butler is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Texas who helps people manage anxiety and stress. She works with adults aiming to feel steadier and more able to handle day-to-day pressures. Her style is straightforward and compassionate, focusing on practical steps people can use right away.
She draws on a mix of approaches, including client-centered listening, cognitive behavioral techniques, and mindfulness practices. That means sessions often include talking through problems, identifying unhelpful thoughts, and trying simple exercises to calm the body and mind.
Background and approach
Motivational interviewing and psychodynamic ideas also inform how she looks at patterns that keep people stuck. Butler has five years of clinical experience as an LCSW and a longer history in the helping professions. Her background includes work with adults facing chronic illness and a variety of life stressors.
She aims to blend real-world strategies with attention to feeling and meaning. People come to her for many concerns such as anxiety, grief, relationship strain, parenting stress, substance issues, trauma and sleep problems. She also supports work on self-esteem, career questions, ADHD-related challenges, and coping with big life changes.
Sessions emphasize small, achievable steps toward what matters most to each person. Therapy sessions are offered in English and delivered online by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling through the platform.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Client-centered therapy starts with listening and reflecting. The therapist follows the person’s lead, helping them put words to feelings and identify what matters most. This approach helps people feel heard and clarifies personal goals.Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. Sessions include spotting unhelpful thinking patterns and trying different behaviors to see what changes. This is useful for anxiety, panic, low mood, and stress-related habits.
Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase calm. Short exercises can be practiced between sessions to support sleep, worry, and emotional regulation.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose techniques that match their needs, goals, and preferences and will adjust the plan as progress or obstacles appear.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for people with busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when travel is difficult. Phone sessions work when bandwidth or being on camera is a problem. Live chat and text messaging make brief check-ins possible during a workday or when a quick support moment helps. These options make it easier to fit therapy into real life while trying different approaches.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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