About Janelle
Janelle Butler is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) who helps people cope with stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar mood concerns, ADHD, addictions, and a wide range of relationship and life-change issues. She speaks English and American Sign Language and practices with nine years of experience. She works with concerns such as grief, trauma and abuse, parenting strain, body image, and compassion fatigue.
Janelle began in community mental health in the Seattle area and later practiced on the East Coast while continuing to serve Washington and beyond.
Background and approach
That background gave her experience with many different situations and life stages. She has seen how avoiding painful emotions can wear people down over time. Her approach focuses on identifying unhelpful patterns and beliefs.
She helps people decide whether to change those patterns, or to shift how they view them. That can lead to relief now, while also building skills for longer-term improvement. Janelle draws from several practical therapies to guide sessions.
She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy tools to teach coping skills. She also integrates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and attachment-informed ideas to address values, connection, and painful memories. Sessions can include short-term coaching and support for coping with chronic illness, caregiving stress, adoption and foster care concerns, abandonment wounds, and communication problems.
She accepts international clients and offers multiple online formats to fit different schedules.
Approaches that guide online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without fighting them, and then take small steps that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and persistent avoidance. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with behavioral experiments and skill practice. It is often used for anxiety, phobias, low mood, and sleep problems. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches concrete skills in emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness to manage intense feelings and improve communication.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Janelle will help clients figure out which methods fit their goals and preferences. She blends techniques as needed and adjusts the plan based on progress and feedback, so therapy stays practical and focused on what the person wants to change.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversations and skills practice. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat or text messaging is useful for brief check-ins, grounding exercises, or ongoing coaching between longer sessions. These options aim to increase flexibility and make it easier to keep therapy consistent.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English, American Sign Language
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