About Janelle
Janelle Butler is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar symptoms, ADHD, addiction concerns, and issues around self-esteem and relationships. She also supports those coping with grief, trauma, intimacy struggles, eating and sleeping problems, parenting strain, and career or life changes. Sessions are offered in English and American Sign Language.
Janelle uses straightforward, practical work in sessions. She listens first and helps people name the patterns that cause pain.
Background and approach
Then she helps clients try new ways of responding so small changes can add up. Her approach draws on several evidence-informed methods, including cognitive behavioral techniques, acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment-based work, and skills from dialectical behavior approaches. Janelle helps people practice skills, notice thoughts and feelings, and choose actions that match their values.
She has nine years of experience and has worked in community mental health settings across Washington and beyond. That background means she has seen many kinds of concerns and practical life stresses. People who meet with her can expect a calm, supportive presence and a focus on workable steps.
She frames change as a process that takes time and practice, and she helps clients set realistic goals and track progress. Outside of specific symptoms, Janelle also pays attention to attachment, adoption and foster care themes, blended family challenges, chronic illness and caregiver stress, dissociation, and other complex stressors.
Her style blends listening, skill teaching, and collaborative planning to help people move forward.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choosing actions that match what matters most. It can help with anxiety, depression, and motivation when patterns stop people from moving forward. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and teaches practical tools to change unhelpful thinking and habits; it often helps with anxiety, depression, sleep, and eating concerns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) provides skills for managing strong emotions, improving distress tolerance, and handling relationship conflicts, which can be useful for mood instability and intense reactions.Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try out techniques, and adjust methods based on what helps most. That could mean using ACT ideas one week and skill practice from CBT or DBT the next.
Online therapy using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging makes scheduling more flexible. Video is useful for more in-depth conversations and practicing skills together. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is low or a quick check-in fits a lunch break. Live chat or text messaging may suit shorter updates, mood tracking, or skill prompts between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and maintain continuity across locations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
Also works with
- 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