Janelle Butler, LMHC

Janelle Butler is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar symptoms, ADHD, addictions, grief, and midlife transitions. She works with issues around relationships, intimacy, parenting, career stress, and identity concerns, including LGBT matters. Janelle communicates in English and American Sign Language and practices with nine years of experience.

She began her career in the greater Seattle area and has extensive experience in community mental health settings. That background exposed her to many different life situations and helped her learn practical ways to support people in distress. She notices how avoiding emotional pain can worsen other areas of life, and she focuses on simple steps to interrupt those patterns.

In session she helps people identify unhelpful beliefs and repeated behaviors. Sometimes she works to change those patterns directly. Other times she helps people shift how they view painful feelings so those feelings stop driving decisions.

Janelle draws on a mix of approaches, including cognitive behavioral techniques and dialectical behavior strategies, to teach coping skills and problem solving. She also uses attachment-focused ideas to look at relationship patterns and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy tools to clarify values and goals.

Her style is direct and supportive. She aims to offer practical tools and steady encouragement while clients build lasting change. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions based on availability.

How Janelle’s Approaches Translate to Online Therapy

Janelle uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy in her work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values while learning to accept difficult feelings. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and helps people build different ways of relating.

Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Janelle will work with each person to decide which methods fit best based on needs, goals, and preferences. That decision is collaborative and may change as therapy progresses.

If you are considering online sessions, please confirm current session options before booking. Many people find virtual work helpful because it can fit into a busy day, make it easier to keep appointments, and reduce travel time. Online work also makes coaching around daily routines and coping skills more practical, such as doing a short skills check-in during a lunch break or reviewing real-life interactions soon after they happen. Licensed professionals can adapt ACT and attachment-based work to an online format by focusing on values-driven actions, present-moment exercises, and relationship patterns during conversations.