Lisa Butler, LCSW

Licensed in North Carolina · 11 years in practice

Lisa Butler is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in North Carolina who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, and major life changes.

License and registration

LCSW, North Carolina: C012197 · expires May 2028
NPI: 1235809989 · national provider identifier
Years in practice: 11
Languages: English

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About Lisa

Lisa Butler is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in North Carolina who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, and major life changes. She uses clear, practical methods to guide clients toward better coping and healthier relationships. Her style is compassionate and straightforward, aimed at everyday problems parents and adults face.

With 11 years of experience, she brings a steady, calm presence to sessions. She helps people work through trauma and abuse, grief, and mood concerns such as depression and bipolar disorder.

Background and approach

Lisa also supports those dealing with sleep and eating issues, chronic illness or pain, and caregiver stress. Relationship and attachment concerns are a strong focus. She helps people sort communication problems, abandonment or attachment wounds, commitment issues, and blended family challenges.

Many clients come for help with anger, codependency, or rebuilding self-esteem after loss or separation. Her work uses several evidence-based approaches in practical ways. She draws on attachment-based ideas to repair connection, client-centered listening to follow each person’s pace, and cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking and behavior.

Dialectical strategies and emotionally focused work help with intense emotions and relationship patterns. Sessions address substance use and recovery, domestic violence effects, and coping after natural or human-caused disasters. Lisa also supports people facing cancer, chronic conditions, or other long-term health struggles.

She adapts her approach to each person’s goals and daily life.

Focus areas and approaches

Everything Lisa lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.

Stress, Anxiety
Addictions
Family conflicts
Anger management
Self esteem
Relationship issues
Trauma and abuse
Grief
Eating disorders
Sleeping disorders
Parenting issues
Career difficulties
Bipolar disorder
Depression
Coping with life changes
Compassion fatigue
ADHD
Abandonment
Attachment issues
Blended family issues
Body image
Cancer
Caregiver issues and stress
Chronic pain, illness, and disability
Codependency
Commitment issues
Communication problems
Control issues
Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
Divorce and separation
Domestic violence
Drug and alcohol addiction
Eating and food-related issues
Emptiness
Family of origin issues
Family problems
Fertility issues
Forgiveness
Guilt and shame
Impulsivity
Isolation / loneliness
Life purpose
Men's issues
Midlife crisis
Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Narcissism
Panic disorder and panic attacks
Post-traumatic stress
Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
Self-love
Smoking / vaping cessation
Social anxiety and phobia
Women's issues
Workplace issues
Young adult issues

Approaches Lisa names

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Online support

Therapeutic approaches you can use online

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. Online sessions use that work to identify attachment wounds and practice new ways of relating, which can help with trust, abandonment fears, and communication problems. Client-Centered Therapy puts the person’s experience first; the therapist listens without judgment and follows the client’s lead to build clarity and self-acceptance. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and teaches concrete techniques to shift unhelpful patterns and reduce anxiety or depressive symptoms. Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, challenges, and preferences. Together they review what’s working and adjust the plan as progress is made. Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skills practice and deep conversation. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in fits a break at work. Live chat and text-based messaging let people share between sessions, check in after a difficult day, or keep momentum when scheduling is tight. These options help make therapy fit real life while keeping the focus on progress and usable tools.

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Questions people ask

What kinds of concerns does Lisa address?

She works with stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, addictions, trauma and grief. Additional focus areas include relationship and attachment issues, self-esteem, parenting strain, and chronic illness or pain.

What is the therapist's clinical approach and style?

Sessions combine attachment-based, client-centered, and cognitive behavioral ideas with elements from DBT and EFT. The approach is practical, collaborative, and focused on skills people can use between sessions.

How much experience does she have?

She has 11 years of experience working with a wide range of concerns including addiction recovery, family dynamics, and coping with life changes.

Where is this therapist licensed and located?

She holds an LCSW license in North Carolina and practices as a licensed clinical social worker serving people from that region.

Are sessions offered in other languages or internationally?

Sessions are offered in English, and international clients are accepted.

What formats are available for sessions?

Therapy is available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.

How does billing and cost work?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

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