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Licensed clinical social worker recordNorth Carolina

Lisa Butler

Lisa Butler, LCSW

North Carolina

Licensed Clinical Social Worker - stress and relationships

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Credentials
LCSW
Licensed in North Carolina
LCSW, licence C012197
NPI
1235809989
Experience
11 years
Languages
English
Location
North Carolina

These details come from information Lisa supplied to BetterHelp. A licence can be checked with the social work board of the state that issued it, and an NPI with the national registry.

AAbout

  • Attachment-based work
  • CBT techniques
  • Emotion-focused tools

About Lisa

Lisa Butler is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) licensed in North Carolina with 11 years of experience helping people through hard life moments. She works with stress, anxiety, addiction, relationship struggles, trauma and mood concerns. Her focus includes practical problems like sleep, eating, career strain, and parenting stress.

She uses straightforward, evidence-informed methods to help clients notice patterns and try different responses. Sessions are conversational and goal-focused. Lisa helps people build clearer communication skills, manage anger, and reduce overwhelm with everyday strategies they can practice between meetings.

She often addresses attachment and relationship patterns that show up across life and in parenting. That can mean looking at how past losses or abandonment shape current trust and closeness. She also supports people dealing with grief, chronic illness or caregiver stress, and the fallout from domestic violence or separation.

Lived concerns like work pressure, compassion fatigue, and the demands of blended families are part of her caseload. She brings tools from cognitive behavioral work and emotion-focused work to tackle unhelpful thoughts and intense emotions. Skills from dialectical behavior work are used when people need concrete ways to tolerate strong feelings.

Lisa also offers support for addiction recovery and for people managing bipolar disorder and depression. She helps clients set small, achievable steps toward stability and clearer coping. People who speak English and those outside the United States may arrange sessions according to the platform's process.

BHow sessions work

How her therapeutic approaches translate to online work

Attachment-based work looks at how early bonds shape current relationships. In practice this means talking about patterns of trust, closeness, and distance and trying small changes in how someone expresses needs and responds to others. It can help with relationship strain and attachment issues that affect parenting and adult partnerships.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. Online sessions using CBT often include short exercises, thought records, and concrete homework to practice between meetings, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating concerns.

Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people name and organize strong feelings and then try different ways of responding. This approach supports people working through grief, trauma reactions, or heated conflicts by slowing the moment down and noticing emotional patterns.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Lisa collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and daily life. That means adjusting pace, trying a skill for a few weeks, and checking what helps.

Session formats are not specified in the biography, so confirm current options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit meetings into a busy week, allow for shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time. These practical benefits often help people maintain consistency while they work on managing stress, addiction recovery, mood stability, and relationship challenges.

CAreas of focus

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

Stress, AnxietyAddictionsFamily conflictsAnger managementSelf esteem

Also works with

Relationship issuesTrauma and abuseGriefEating disordersSleeping disordersParenting issuesCareer difficultiesBipolar disorderDepressionCoping with life changesCompassion fatigueADHD

Additional focus areas

AbandonmentAttachment issuesBlended family issuesBody imageCancerCaregiver issues and stressChronic pain, illness, and disabilityCodependencyCommitment issuesCommunication problemsControl issuesCoping with natural or human-caused disasterDivorce and separationDomestic violenceDrug and alcohol addictionEating and food-related issuesEmptinessFamily of origin issuesFamily problemsFertility issuesForgivenessGuilt and shameImpulsivityIsolation / lonelinessLife purposeMen's issuesMidlife crisisVeteran and Armed Forces IssuesNarcissismPanic disorder and panic attacksPost-traumatic stressProcess addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)Self-loveSmoking / vaping cessationSocial anxiety and phobiaWomen's issuesWorkplace issuesYoung adult issues

Therapeutic approaches

Attachment-Based TherapyClient-Centered TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)Mindfulness TherapyMotivational InterviewingPsychodynamic TherapySolution-Focused Therapy

Experience

11+ years

Listed in

North Carolina

Languages

English

DQuestions

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does she help with?

Lisa works with stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, grief, mood disorders, relationship and parenting challenges, and related issues such as sleep, eating, and career stress.

What is her therapeutic style?

She uses client-centered, practical approaches that include attachment-based work, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior skills, and emotionally focused methods.

How much experience does she have?

She has 11 years of experience as a practicing clinician working with a range of life stresses and mental health concerns.

Is she licensed and where?

She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, licensed in North Carolina.

Which languages are supported?

Sessions are offered in English.

Can people outside the US work with her?

International clients are accepted; follow the platform steps to confirm scheduling and any regional rules.

How are sessions scheduled and paid for?

Cost varies with location. Sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time according to the platform's billing process.

What do I do to start a first session?

Select the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule your first session through the platform.

Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are in danger, call 911, or call or text 988. More crisis numbers

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