About Gaynor
Gaynor Butler is a licensed clinical social worker with 23 years of experience helping people through painful life moments. She practices in Georgia and focuses on practical steps people can use when things feel overwhelming. Gaynor tends to work with people facing anxiety, depression, grief, parenting strain, and relationship stress.
She listens first and then helps clients identify small changes that make a difference. Sessions often focus on improving communication, managing strong emotions like anger, and building skills to cope with stress and life transitions.
Background and approach
Gaynor also supports people dealing with trauma, abandonment, and attachment concerns. Her background includes long experience with blended family issues, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and identity-related challenges such as LGBT concerns. She draws on several therapy methods to match what each person needs rather than relying on a single approach.
In the room, Gaynor uses straightforward tools from cognitive behavioral work and mindfulness to reduce distress. She blends that with client-centered conversations to clarify values and goals. Emotion-focused work helps when relationship or intimacy problems are central.
Many clients come to address practical problems like career stress, parenting worries, or managing bipolar and mood symptoms. Gaynor also offers coaching-style support for people trying to make life changes and improve overall wellbeing.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small committed actions toward them, which can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns with others. This approach helps people understand repeated relationship cycles and develop new ways of relating when intimacy or abandonment issues cause pain.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Gaynor will collaborate with each person to decide which methods to use based on their goals, life situation, and preferences rather than insisting on a single method.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let conversations closely mirror in-person sessions, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins, and live chat or text-based messaging can fit into a busy schedule or provide ongoing support between meetings. These formats make it easier to access consistent care from Georgia without traveling, while keeping sessions flexible around daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also listed
- 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
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