About Randi
Randi Butwin is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) practicing in California. She focuses on relationship and identity concerns, helping people untangle difficult connections and build more satisfying relationships. Randi works with teens and adults who are moving out of harmful relationships or navigating identity changes.
Her approach is straightforward and practical. Sessions emphasize clear communication, safety planning when needed, and small steps clients can use right away. She draws on methods that center the client, address relationship patterns, and support motivation to change.
How Randi works
Randi has three years of clinical experience across different settings. She has worked in hospice offering end-of-life and bereavement support, at a school supporting children, teens, parents and families, and at a community clinic with transitional youth who have cut ties with family. She has also provided services in independent practice with couples.
Her background gives her practical familiarity with parenting stress, young adult transitions, grief, and relationship breakdowns. She also offers support around sexuality, gender dysphoria, kink and alternative sex culture, and other identity-related issues. Randi helps people who face communication problems, prejudice and discrimination, and the strains that follow major life changes.
In sessions she uses client-centered work alongside structured relationship tools and motivational interviewing to help people clarify goals. The focus is on collaboration, building self-compassion, and creating concrete plans clients can try between sessions.
Randi lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
What Randi works with
The areas below are the ones Randi selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Intimacy-related issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Practical online approaches for relationships and identity
Client-centered therapy focuses on the client's own experience and priorities, letting the person guide the pace of work while the therapist reflects and supports. It helps with identity questions, self-esteem, and feeling understood. The Gottman Method uses structured tools to improve communication and manage conflict in relationships, which is useful for couples and people wanting clearer patterns in their interactions. Motivational interviewing is a goal-focused style that helps people find internal reasons to change and take small, sustainable steps when facing ambivalence.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work together with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and comfort level. That collaborative exploration can include mixing techniques so the plan matches what the client needs right now.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier for clients who prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging make brief check-ins and ongoing support possible between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives, work through immediate concerns, and practice new skills in everyday settings.
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