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Dr. Jo-Linda Butterfield, MD

  • Experience20 years
  • LocationMaryland
  • Focus areasADHD, Relationship, and Grief
  • LanguagesEnglish
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About Jo-Linda

Dr. Jo-Linda Butterfield offers a collaborative, goal-oriented approach for people navigating stress, anxiety, grief, life transitions, ADHD, and concerns that affect work and personal relationships.

Background and approach

With two decades of clinical experience, she focuses on helping clients regain motivation, boost self-esteem, and develop practical strategies to manage overwhelm, procrastination, sleep disruption, and caregiving or career challenges. Her background spans independent practice, hospital settings, assisted-living and rehabilitation centers, schools, addiction treatment programs, and post-graduate teaching.

This variety has shaped a flexible style that blends psychological insight with coaching techniques to support both internal mindset shifts and concrete behavior change. Dr.

Butterfield pairs clinical training with coaching credentials to help clients set realistic objectives, identify strengths, and build sustainable routines. Clients work together with her to clarify values, address compassion fatigue or burnout, and find actionable steps toward improved functioning and well-being.

She also brings experience in hospice and end-of-life counseling for those facing serious illness or bereavement. Dr.

Butterfield welcomes those ready to take practical steps toward the life they want and supports them through each stage of change.

Evidence-Based Approaches and Flexible Online Care

Dr. Butterfield integrates evidence-based therapeutic techniques with coaching to help clients make meaningful changes. Cognitive strategies focus on identifying and reframing unhelpful thoughts to reduce anxiety, depression, and self-defeating patterns; these techniques are useful for improving mood, motivation, and decision-making. Behavioral approaches emphasize routines, sleep hygiene, and stepwise habit formation to address procrastination, sleep disruption, and daily functioning. These methods help translate goals into sustainable actions.

Finding the right therapeutic approach is treated as a collaborative process. She works with each person to assess needs, try methods that fit their goals and preferences, and adjust the plan as progress is made. This lets clients combine mindset work with practical coaching so therapy stays relevant and achievable.

Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility and access. These formats make it easier to maintain regular contact, practice strategies between sessions, and fit care into busy schedules. Licensed professionals can support progress whether the focus is on grief, ADHD-related challenges, stress management, or life transitions, while adapting the pace and tools to each client’s circumstances.

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of issues does she commonly address?
She works with concerns such as relationship difficulties, grief, low self-esteem, coping with life changes, stress, anxiety, depression, compassion fatigue, sleep problems, parenting and career challenges, and ADHD.
What is her general therapeutic style?
The approach blends clinical psychology with coaching methods to set goals, shift unhelpful patterns, and develop practical strategies for daily life. Therapy tends to be collaborative and focused on both internal insight and external action.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She brings 20 years of professional experience across settings including independent practice, hospitals, assisted-living and rehab centers, schools, and addiction treatment programs.
What credentials and location are listed for this therapist?
She is an MD and is licensed as a psychologist in Maryland with the licence designation MD Psychologist 02803.
In which language does she conduct sessions?
Sessions are offered in English. She is not accepting international clients at this time.
What session formats are available for online work?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexible options that fit different schedules and communication preferences.
How does billing and cost work for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the first steps to begin working together?
To start, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

Relationship issuesGriefSelf esteemCoping with life changesCoaching

Also works with

Stress, AnxietyFamily conflictsSleeping disordersParenting issuesCareer difficultiesDepressionCompassion fatigueADHD

Additional focus areas

Hospice and end-of-life counseling

Experience

20+ years

Licensed

Maryland

Languages

English