Dr. Jo-Linda Butterfield , MD

Dr. Jo-Linda Butterfield is a Maryland-based licensed psychologist with more than 20 years of experience supporting people through personal, workplace, and family challenges. She combines clinical training with a coaching orientation to help clients at any life stage navigate relationships, career shifts, parenting, and the emotional work that follows major transitions.

Her experience spans diverse settings including private practice, hospitals, assisted-living and rehabilitation centers, schools, post-graduate academia, and addiction treatment programs. She has also provided hospice and end-of-life counseling, which informs her compassionate approach to grief and loss work.

Clients come to her for help with stress, anxiety, depression, sleep problems, ADHD, compassion fatigue, low self-esteem, motivation, and coping with life changes. She also supports those managing relationship difficulties, family concerns, career decisions, and the practical steps needed to overcome procrastination, clutter, and unhelpful habits.

Dr. Butterfield holds an MD - a Doctor of Medicine degree - and is a licensed psychologist in Maryland. Her background in professional coaching, including advanced coach training and health and wellness coaching, strengthens her focus on goal setting, behavior change, and sustained progress. She works collaboratively with each person to identify strengths, clarify goals, and create practical strategies that lead toward a more satisfying and purposeful life.

Reaching out for help takes courage, and Dr. Butterfield affirms that step while offering steady support as clients move toward the changes they want.

Evidence-Based Approaches and Accessible Online Care

Dr. Butterfield integrates goal-focused coaching methods with behavioral and cognitive strategies to help clients change unhelpful habits and thought patterns. Coaching-informed work emphasizes setting clear, achievable goals and building practical steps toward them, which is useful for motivation, career shifts, and life transitions. Behavioral and cognitive approaches target patterns that contribute to anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and procrastination by teaching skills for managing thoughts, emotions, and daily routines.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Dr. Butterfield works collaboratively with each person to explore what fits best for their needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting methods over time as progress evolves. That partnership helps ensure techniques align with both personal values and real-life demands.

Online therapy options - including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging - offer flexibility for people balancing work, family, and health needs. These formats make it easier to maintain continuity of care, fit sessions into busy schedules, and access licensed professionals from home or other convenient locations.