About Gaynor
Gaynor Butler is a licensed clinical social worker with 23 years of experience helping people through hard life moments. She works from Georgia and focuses on clear, practical support for everyday challenges. Gaynor is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) and also holds the CSW credential.
She often helps people facing grief, trauma, or major life changes. Parents who are worn down by caregiving or the strain of blended families find concrete tools for communication and boundaries.
Background and approach
She also supports people dealing with anxiety, depression, bipolar symptoms, ADHD, and stress related to work or caregiving. Gaynor uses straightforward methods to help clients notice what matters and take steps toward it. She draws on approaches such as cognitive behavioral tools, attachment-focused work, and acceptance-based strategies.
Sessions emphasize building coping skills, clearer communication, and managing overwhelming feelings. Her style is calm and affirming. Sessions aim to be practical and grounded in the client’s life.
Gaynor works with LGBTQ people and others seeking a nonjudgmental space to explore identity and relationships. Clients who choose her often want a therapist who listens, offers simple strategies, and helps set realistic goals. The focus is on small changes that can ease daily life and improve relationships.
Gaynor aims to walk alongside clients as they make steady progress.
Therapy approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings and keep living toward what matters. It teaches simple exercises for choosing actions that match personal values when emotions feel overwhelming. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current bonds and communication. It helps people learn safer ways to ask for closeness, set limits, and repair conflict. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person’s experience and moves at their pace, offering a respectful, listening space so clients can find their own solutions.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Gaynor will collaborate with each person to figure out which methods fit their goals and comfort level. Together they assess needs, try techniques, and adjust the plan as progress and preferences become clearer.
Online formats here include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for a fuller conversation and visual cues, phone can fit a break at work or when bandwidth is low, chat is good for quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep momentum between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also works with
- 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