About Raymond
Raymond Butts is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 30 years of experience in counseling and education. He blends a people-first style with practical methods to help clients manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, ADHD, and related struggles. He works with adults on issues like grief, anger, addiction, career concerns, and parenting stress.
He began his career in special education and earned a Master of Education in Counselor Education in 1989.
Background and approach
Raymond spent many years working in Alaskan school districts as a teacher, itinerant school counselor, and village school principal before returning to work in Arkansas. His background in schools shaped a direct, hands-on approach to helping people in real situations. In later years he provided counseling in a kindergarten center and then shifted to military and family life counseling beginning in 2009.
That role added experience addressing first responder and veteran issues, caregiver stress, and crisis situations. Those years deepened his work with trauma, compassion fatigue, and mood disorders. Raymond uses client-centered methods alongside cognitive behavioral and solution-focused techniques.
He aims to listen first, then help clients build small, practical steps toward their goals. Sessions often focus on coping skills, clearer communication, and manageable behavior changes. Based in Arizona, he offers services in English and accepts international clients.
He draws on decades of varied practice to tailor straightforward support for people facing life changes, relationship strain, or persistent emotional challenges.
How client-centered and CBT methods work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and meeting people where they are. The therapist follows the person’s lead, reflects what they say, and helps them find their own solutions. This approach helps with issues like low self-esteem, grief, and relationship or parenting strain.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thoughts and behaviors and teaches simple skills to change them. It is useful for anxiety, depression, ADHD-related struggles with focus and routine, and coping with life changes. Solution-focused therapy zeroes in on small, practical steps and short-term goals to build momentum quickly.
Deciding which approach to use is a team process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and past experience to determine what fits best. That collaborative planning can shift over time as needs change.
Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for full sessions and face-to-face interaction, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat or messaging can support brief check-ins or ongoing coaching, and text lets people fit therapy into a busy day. These options make it easier to maintain progress while juggling work, family, or location constraints.
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What this therapist works with
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- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Alaska, Missouri, Maine, Arizona
- Languages
- English
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