About Raymond
Raymond Butts is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 30 years of experience in counseling and education. He blends a respectful, person-focused style with practical tools to help people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, mood struggles, and life transitions. He began his career in special education and later earned a Master of Education in Counselor Education in 1989.
Over the next decades he worked as a teacher, itinerant school counselor, and village school principal in Alaska, then in other school districts before retiring from K-12 work in 2004.
How Raymond works
That school-based background shaped his straightforward, common-sense approach. Raymond later served as a military and family life counselor, which added crisis and trauma work to his skill set. He uses Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, and Trauma-Focused Therapy to tailor sessions to what a person needs in the moment.
Sessions focus on clear goals and small, manageable steps. He helps with a wide range of concerns including depression, bipolar mood issues, grief, addictions, caregiver stress, and first responder or veteran issues. He also addresses relationship problems, communication and commitment struggles, parenting strain, and burnout-like compassion fatigue.
Raymond offers services from Arizona and works with English-speaking clients, including international clients. Sessions are available by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules a session.
Raymond lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
What Raymond works with
The areas below are the ones Raymond selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- 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
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 30 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Arizona |
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Online support options
How Raymond’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding what matters most to the person. The therapist follows the client’s lead, helps reflect feelings, and supports self-directed change which can help with low self-esteem, grief, and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts influence feelings and behavior. In online sessions this means identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and practicing small behavior changes or coping skills between meetings to reduce anxiety and depression.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Raymond will discuss goals, try methods, and adjust the plan based on what works and what the person prefers. He treats the choice of approach as something to decide together rather than a fixed prescription.
Online therapy offers flexibility and practical benefits. Video calls are useful for deeper conversations and seeing facial cues, phone sessions use less bandwidth, live chat can work for quick check-ins, and text-based messaging lets someone reflect and respond on their own time. These options help fit therapy into work breaks, caregiving schedules, or travel, while keeping progress steady through regular contact.
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