About Gaynor
Gaynor Butler is a licensed clinical social worker with 23 years of practice in Georgia. She combines steady clinical experience with a calm, straightforward style. Parents often find her direct approach easier to follow when stress has made time feel scarce.
Her work focuses on everyday problems that become overwhelming. She helps people manage anxiety, depression, bipolar challenges, grief, and trauma. She also supports those dealing with relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strain, career stress, and identity-related concerns including LGBT matters.
How Gaynor works
In sessions she uses practical tools alongside longer conversations. Clients learn ways to cope with intense emotions, improve communication, and make clearer decisions. She draws on methods such as cognitive behavioral ideas, attachment-focused thinking, and acceptance strategies to shape the work together.
Gaynor aims for simple, doable steps that fit real life. Sessions can include problem-solving, role practice, and mindfulness-style exercises. The goal is steady progress - not quick fixes - so people leave with clearer ways to handle future challenges.
She offers video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging formats to match busy schedules. Therapy follows a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To begin, select the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.
Gaynor lists 12 ways of working on the entry:
- 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
What Gaynor works with
The areas below are the ones Gaynor selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Registers | LCSW, CSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 23 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Georgia |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts without getting stuck in them and committing to actions that match personal values; it is useful for stress, anxiety, and life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early bonds shape current relationships and helps people repair patterns that cause conflict or distance. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thoughts and test them with practical behavioral experiments to reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about symptoms, goals, and preferences, then suggest approaches that fit. Sessions can combine elements from different methods so the plan stays responsive to what is actually working.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit shorter updates, coaching-style guidance, or clients who prefer writing. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or travel.
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