Janelle Butler , LMHC

Janelle Butler is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with nine years of clinical experience who began her career serving the greater Seattle area and now practices while continuing to serve Washington and beyond. She has extensive experience in community mental health, allowing her to work with people of different ages, backgrounds, and presenting concerns. Over time she has observed how many people become skilled at avoiding emotional pain, and she focuses on helping clients bring those patterns into awareness before they take a toll on physical and mental wellbeing.

Janelle works collaboratively to isolate unhelpful beliefs and patterns and then to either transform them into opportunities for growth or change how they are perceived. She recognizes that initial relief can happen quickly but that lasting change often requires steady effort and time. Hope is central to her approach - she emphasizes restoring hope when grief, loss, or despair make it hard to see a way forward.

Janelle uses evidence-informed methods, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Cognitive Processing Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and Motivational Interviewing, to help clients build practical skills, improve relationships, and find greater balance. Her style blends compassion with clinical experience to help people better understand their struggles and move toward more peaceful, sustainable ways of coping.

Evidence-Based Approaches and Online Care

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people identify and test the thoughts and behaviors that contribute to distress, then build more effective coping strategies - it is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress-related concerns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) blends skill training in emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness to support people who struggle with intense emotions, relationship conflict, or self-destructive patterns. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationships influence current patterns of connection and trust, and it can be especially helpful for people working on relationship issues, abandonment concerns, and attachment wounds.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and Janelle collaborates with each person to determine which methods best match their needs, goals, and preferences. She draws on these approaches flexibly and tailors the work as progress unfolds.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility - sessions can be scheduled as video calls or phone sessions, and shorter check-ins or ongoing support can take place via live chat or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives, connect from different locations, and maintain continuity of care with licensed professionals and therapists who can adapt methods to each person's circumstances.