About Raymond
Raymond Butts uses a client-centered approach to guide people through stressful and painful moments. He is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 30 years of experience. He focuses on everyday problems like anxiety, depression, anger, and relationship or parenting strain.
People come for help with addiction, grief, career stress, ADHD, and trauma-related concerns. He began his career in education as an elementary special education teacher. He earned a Master of Education in Counselor Education in 1989 from the University of Arkansas.
Background and approach
Raymond spent many years working in Alaska schools as a teacher, itinerant school counselor, and village school principal. That school-based work shaped his practical, straightforward style. After returning from Alaska, he continued counseling young children in a busy center and later retired from that phase of his career.
He later served as a military and family life counselor for a decade, gaining experience with first responder and veteran-related issues. These roles broadened his work with trauma, loss, and caregiver stress. Raymond blends client-centered methods with cognitive behavioral and solution-focused techniques.
He tends to listen first, then help people set small, workable goals. For trauma-related struggles he uses trauma-focused ideas to address painful memories and reactions. He provides services from Arizona and offers sessions that fit modern life.
English-language sessions are available via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, and he accepts international clients.
How client-centered and cognitive approaches work online
Raymond often combines client-centered therapy with cognitive behavioral techniques to help people manage difficult thoughts and symptoms. Client-centered work focuses on listening, empathy, and following the client’s priorities so they feel heard and understood. CBT adds practical tools to change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, which can reduce anxiety and improve mood.He also uses solution-focused ideas to set short-term, achievable goals. That approach is useful when someone wants concrete steps for a problem like stress at work or coping with life changes. Deciding which approach to use is collaborative - the therapist and client will try methods and adapt them based on what feels most helpful and fits the person’s goals and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for deeper conversations. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or to fit a short break. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in between sessions or use written exchanges when that format feels easier. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or travel.
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What this counselor works with
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- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Alaska, Missouri, Maine, Arizona
- Languages
- English