About Gaynor
Gaynor Butler is a licensed clinical social worker with 23 years of experience helping people through hard life moments. She is an LCSW and CSW based in Georgia who focuses on practical support for emotional struggles. Gaynor aims to make therapy understandable and useful for everyday life.
She often helps people facing family tension, grief, trauma, and major life changes. She also supports people dealing with anxiety, depression, bipolar challenges, stress, and ADHD.
Background and approach
Gaynor offers an affirming space for LGBT clients and those facing identity-related concerns. In sessions she listens first and then helps clients find clear steps forward. She works with clients to improve communication, manage overwhelming feelings, and repair intimacy or relationship problems.
She also addresses parenting strain, caregiver stress, and issues that come from adoption, abandonment, or blended families. Gaynor uses a mix of approaches to fit each person’s needs. She draws on acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment perspectives, cognitive behavioral tools, and emotionally-focused methods.
Mindfulness and client-centered principles guide how she shapes a plan with each client. Her style is steady, approachable, and goal-oriented. Gaynor helps people build coping skills that fit their daily routines.
She encourages small, manageable changes that add up to real improvement.
How Gaynor’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then take actions that reflect their values. ACT can be useful for stress, anxiety, and life transitions where making value-based choices matters.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at early relationship patterns and how they affect current connections. This approach can help with intimacy issues, communication problems, and relationship strain by strengthening how people relate to others.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Gaynor works with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. She reviews what’s working and adjusts the plan so therapy stays relevant and practical.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different lifestyles. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when it helps the work. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a lunch break or a tight schedule. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, ongoing coaching, or when someone prefers writing over speaking. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent and woven into everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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