Raymond Butts, LPC

Raymond Butts is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) and a National Certified Counselor (NCC) with 30 years of combined experience in counseling and education. He earned a Master of Education in Counselor Education from the University of Arkansas in 1989 and began his career in special education at the elementary level in the early 1980s. His early work took him to Alaska in 1989 as a long-term substitute teacher in the Bering Strait School District, serving the community of Unalakleet.

He returned to that region a year later and spent a total of 11 years working as a teacher, an itinerant school counselor, and a village school principal. After positions in two additional school districts, he retired from Alaska in 2004 and returned to Arkansas, where he served as a kindergarten counselor in a center that supported 180 children and 18 teachers. He fully retired in 2007 before returning to direct client support in a different role.

In 2009 he began work as a military and family life counselor, a role he held for a decade. His clinical orientation reflects his training and temperament - he trained in client-centered therapy (CCT) and emphasizes crisis counseling while allowing clients to lead the process rather than directing it. With more than five years working on the platform, his stated goal is to be as effective as possible in helping people navigate stress, crisis, and life transitions.