Gaynor Butler, LCSW, CSW

Gaynor Butler is a licensed clinical social worker with 23 years of practice in Georgia. She holds LCSW and CSW credentials and brings steady, practical support to people facing big life changes. Her style is calm and direct, with attention to real problems and real schedules.

She commonly helps with stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar mood concerns, and burnout. She also supports people coping with grief, trauma and abuse, parenting strains, and relationship and intimacy issues. Gaynor works with clients around career questions, self-esteem, and identity matters, including LGBT concerns.

Gaynor uses approaches that focus on thoughts, values, and relationships. She draws on cognitive behavioral methods to shift unhelpful thinking patterns. She also uses acceptance and commitment ideas to clarify values and build workable routines.

Attachment-based and emotionally focused work guide how she addresses relationship patterns and connection wounds. Her sessions tend to be straightforward and collaborative. Clients can expect conversations that identify small, doable steps to change.

She offers help for more complex or layered concerns too, such as abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, caregiver stress, chronic pain and illness, dissociation, and challenges with commitment or control. Gaynor frames treatment around the person in front of her and adapts to each situation.

People who prefer a practical, compassionate therapist usually find her approach useful. She aims to help clients gain clearer thinking, steadier emotion, and more workable ways of handling daily life.

Therapeutic approaches you can use online

Gaynor uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot and change the thoughts and habits that fuel anxiety, low mood, and stress. CBT focuses on practical exercises and short-term strategies that translate well into online sessions.

She also brings Acceptance and Commitment Therapy into conversations to help clients clarify what matters most and build routines that reflect those values. ACT helps when people feel stuck reacting to difficult thoughts or emotions rather than moving toward their goals.

Attachment-based work is used when relationship patterns or early connection wounds affect current relationships. This approach helps name patterns and practice new ways of relating during regular sessions.

Gaynor treats choosing an approach as a team effort. She will discuss options and help decide which methods fit a person’s goals and preferences. Changes are tested in small steps so clients can see what works for them.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for longer sessions and visual connection, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, chat can support quick check-ins, and messaging fits people who prefer shorter, ongoing contact. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, and daily life.