About Jo-Linda
Dr. Jo-Linda Butterfield is a Maryland-based MD with two decades of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, and relationship strains. She offers steady, practical support for everyday problems like sleep troubles, career setbacks, parenting stress, grief, and compassion fatigue.
Her approach blends coaching skills with psychological care to help clients set and reach realistic goals. She has worked in many settings over 20 years, including independent practice, hospitals, assisted-living and rehab centers, schools, addiction treatment programs, and postgraduate teaching.
Background and approach
That variety means she is familiar with both short-term problem-solving and longer-term change work. Sessions aim to clarify what matters most to each person and to build small, manageable steps toward those aims. Dr.
Butterfield draws on coaching methods alongside clinical psychology to help clients reorganize habits, reduce procrastination, and strengthen motivation. She focuses on practical tools for coping with life changes and grief, improving self-esteem, and addressing ADHD-related challenges in daily routines. The tone is collaborative and goal-focused rather than overly clinical.
Her background includes mentoring and teaching in coach-training programs in Maryland, which informs how she structures goal work and accountability. She encourages clients to recognize strengths and resources they already have and to use those as building blocks for change. Reaching out for help is a big step, and she frames therapy as a partnership.
Clients can expect clear planning, follow-through, and steady support while they practice new ways of handling stress and building a more satisfying daily life.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Dr. Butterfield integrates evidence-based techniques alongside coaching practices to help clients manage symptoms and reach goals. One common approach she uses focuses on building practical routines and behavioral steps to reduce procrastination and improve daily functioning; this helps with ADHD-related organization, sleep problems, and motivation. Another approach emphasizes grief and loss work through structured support and coping strategies to help people move through difficult transitions without getting stuck.Finding the right method is part of the work together. She collaborates with each person to identify which techniques match their needs, goals, and preferences, and then adjusts the plan as progress is made. Clients help set priorities and measure small successes along the way.
Online therapy offers flexibility and easier access to ongoing support. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or for brief check-ins, and live chat or text-based messaging can fit into busy days for quick goal reminders and check-ins. These options make it easier to keep momentum between sessions and to use therapy in ways that fit everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Parenting issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
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