About Caleb
Caleb Buttenhoff greets people who are feeling stuck, anxious, or struggling with mood and addictive behaviors. He keeps conversations straightforward and focuses on practical steps that can reduce stress and improve day-to-day functioning. Caleb is licensed as LPCC in Minnesota and brings three years of professional counseling experience to sessions.
Caleb helps people name what feels off and then build simple routines that support clearer thinking and steadier mood. He values a collaborative approach where the client’s knowledge about their life guides decisions.
Background and approach
Sessions are direct and goal-oriented while leaving room to process difficult feelings. His work includes support for anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, ADHD-related concentration concerns, and various kinds of addiction. He also addresses issues that affect daily relationships and purpose, such as communication problems, fatherhood concerns, guilt and shame, and feelings of isolation.
Caleb pays attention to how stress shows up in the body and behavior, and he helps clients practice new ways of responding. Caleb’s style fits people who want a clear plan and small, doable steps. He encourages honesty about setbacks and treats progress as a sequence of experiments.
New clients can expect a focus on practical strategies alongside chances to talk through painful experiences. To begin, Caleb asks clients to share their goals and current routines so he can tailor sessions to what matters most. He supports steady change over time rather than quick fixes.
How Caleb uses evidence-based approaches online
Caleb applies evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on building skills and changing unhelpful patterns. One common approach is structured problem solving, which breaks big difficulties into specific steps and practical tasks to try between sessions; this helps with anxiety, low motivation, and feeling stuck. Another approach emphasizes behavioral activation, encouraging small, manageable activities that boost mood and counter depressive withdrawal.Finding the right method is part of the work together. Caleb will talk with each person about their goals, current habits, and what has or hasn’t helped before. He collaborates to choose and adapt techniques so the plan fits the client’s life and priorities rather than using a one-size-fits-all method.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect, and Caleb uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to meet different needs. Video is useful for full conversational sessions, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection and brief updates between meetings. These options make it easier to fit counseling into a busy schedule and maintain steady progress.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
Also listed
- ADHD
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English