About Lisa
Lisa Butler is a licensed clinical social worker in North Carolina who uses an approachable, practical style in therapy. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addiction concerns, and challenges with relationships and self-esteem. Lisa brings 11 years of clinical experience to each session and speaks English with international clients welcome.
She begins by listening to what matters most to the person in front of her. Sessions emphasize clear goals, coping skills, and steady progress rather than jargon.
How Lisa works
Lisa uses methods that help people understand attachment, change unhelpful thinking patterns, and build stronger emotional skills. In practice, Lisa offers tools for crises and for everyday strain. She supports people facing grief, trauma and abuse, bipolar disorder, and chronic health or caregiver stress.
She also helps with sleep and eating concerns, managing anger, and navigating career or parenting stress. Her approach combines client-centered listening with structured techniques such as cognitive behavioral and skills-based strategies. Emotion-focused work is included when relationships and attachment are central to the concern.
The mix is tailored to each person’s needs and life situation. Lisa helps people develop practical plans for change. That can mean learning new behavior patterns, processing past hurts, or practicing communication skills.
The aim is to leave sessions feeling clearer and better able to handle what happens next.
Lisa lists 10 ways of working on the entry:
What Lisa works with
The areas below are the ones Lisa selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 11 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | North Carolina |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy helps people understand how early patterns shape current relationships and responses. Online sessions using this approach focus on recognizing attachment patterns and practicing new ways of relating that reduce anxiety and improve connection.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions. In virtual visits the therapist and client identify unhelpful thoughts and practice small behavioral changes to reduce symptoms like anxiety, depression, or sleep difficulties.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will review your concerns, goals, and preferences and suggest which methods to try first. That collaborative process can include trying a few techniques and adjusting as needed.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful when visual cues and deeper conversation help, phone sessions can fit a break at work or use less bandwidth, chat can be a short check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while keeping treatment focused on real problems and practical skills.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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