Lori Butler

Lori Butler, MSW RSW

Registered Social Worker
butler.emdr@gmail.com (please contact Lori by email as this is her primary form of communication)
www.butlerprivatepractice.com

As a dedicated psychotherapist, empowerment and acceptance are foundational values for Lori’s practice. Your vulnerable and brave step towards change comes with your unique narrative, influenced by our biology, how we are nurtured in childhood and the relationship experiences we have. Therapy gives space for this exploration and reflection. Lori feels privileged and honoured to help guide that deeper questioning that leads you to your innate insight and transformation.

Lori completed her Bachelor of Social Work degree at Evangel University in Springfield, Missouri, and her Master of Social Work at New York University in New York City. Lori’s background experience includes 20 years as a clinician for adjudicated individuals; outpatient therapist for at-risk youth populations; academic social worker; field supervisor and adjunct professor for graduate students; child centre clinical assistant director; private practice practitioner (adults, adolescents, couples) specializing in complex trauma; psychotherapist for marginalized populations that include refugee, asylum and human trafficking; and co-developer/founder of a global mental health Canadian charity (Mental Health Without Borders – www.mhwb.ca).

Lori has spent the last decade exploring treatment modalities that help to heal anxiety and trauma. Her learning has led her to effective, gold-standard therapies that use bottom up approaches. So often Lori would observe similar emerging patterns no matter the reason for seeking therapy…when difficult things happen our system gets overwhelmed, our brain and bodies get too flooded to process and organize the sensations, emotions, and thoughts! Bottom up approaches access the body and the emotions to help dislodge the ‘stuck’ places. Lori brings confidence in her 2 decades of clinical experience, supervision and dedication to refining skills in: Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR); Structural Dissociation Parts Work; and IMAGO (therapy for relationships/couples). Other training include: Psychodynamic; Flash Technique (EMDR); and competencies in CBT, DBT, Mindfulness and Biofeedback. Her passion to help others understand brain development, as it relates to trauma and attachment, is a hallmark of her facilitation towards healing.

Credentials

Training Completed

Therapy Approaches

Intake Process and Policies

Master of Clinical Social Work Degree
New York University Graduate School of Social Work

Registered Social Worker (#817465)
Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers

Member
Canadian Association of Social Workers

IMAGO Training (in progress)
Trainer: Nedra Fetterman, PhD; Gene Shelly, M Div; Kobus van der Merwe, BD; Herb Tannenbaum, PhD
Kitchener, Ontario (64 hours; to be completed May 2021)

Structural Dissociation Parts Work Theory and EMDR Training Certificate
Part 1-3 Webinar Series w/Kathleen Martin, LICSW and 24 hours of post consultation with/Linzy Bonham, MSW-RSW, Psychotherapist, Guelph, ON (2016-2018)

Special Trauma Therapy Training Certificate in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
Part 1 Workshop and Consultation (25 hours) | Bronx, NY (2009)
Trainers: Kriss Jarecki, Donald deGraffenried and Amy Kahn
Part 2 Workshop and Consultation (25 hours) | Mount Pleasant, MI (2010)
Trainers: Trainers: Earl Grey and Reg Morrow

DBT Skills Training
Marsha Linehan, Behavioural Tech
Online (15 hours, 2018)

IMAGO Couples and Relationship Training
Trainers: Nedra Fetterman, PhD and Gene Shelly, M Div
Kitchener, Ontario (32 hours, Nov 2017-March 2018)

Getting The Love You Want
Trainer: Susan McBride
Hamilton, ON (18 hours, 2016)

Trauma Interventions for Front Line Service Workers: Mitigating & Eliminating Intrusive Thoughts, Flashbacks and Nightmares
Trainer: Natalie Zlodre, MSW RSW
Kitchener, Ontario (14 hours, 2012)

Motivational Interviewing
Trainer: by Dr. Michael. Vallis, Registered Health Psychologist
Kitchener, Ontario (14 hours, 2012)

CIC Trauma Informed Addiction and Mental Health
Trainer: Pamela Steward, MD, CCFP
Guelph, Ontario (3 hours, 2011)

Brain, Mind and Body: Trauma, Neurobiology and the Healing Relationship
Trainers: Dr. Bessel van der Kolk; Dr. Ruth Lanius; Dr. Paul Frewen; Dr. Margaret McKinnon
London, Ontario (14 hours, 2011)

The Brain That Changes Itself: The Neuroplasticity Revolution for the Helping Professions
Trainer: Norman Doidge, MD.
Toronto, Ontario (6 hours, 2010)

The Embodied Self: Somatic Methods for EMDR Practitioners
Trainer: Sandra Paulsen, PhD
Online (14 hours, 2010)

Intake Process

If you are interested in working with Lori, please contact her by email or through her website to discuss your interest and enquire about availability.
If Lori has availability to accept new clients, she will offer to schedule an intake session in a time that fits with your needs.
If working together looks like it could be a fit, the next step is that Lori will send you a Welcome email through her platform (called Jane App). This Welcome email provides instructions to set up a log in and secure password. Subsequent emails will then be sent for further instructions to fill out an online Intake Form, Consent(s), Waiver, Policy and Procedures. These forms will be discussed at the intake session.
***Covid-19 Considerations: The Ministry of Health revised directive dated March 19th, 2020 allows healthcare providers to gradually return to non-urgent, in-person practice. As of May 19, 2020, professionals or organizations that provide in-person counselling services are listed as anessential Please note that Lori will adhere to the comfort/safety level of each individual. Lori continues to practice with the option to be seen virtually with a platform called Jane App and/or Doxy.me (both of which are compliant with all applicalble privacy legislation standards).

There is no pressure to be seen in-person and Lori asks that you check in with your own comfort/safety and research as to risk assessment. Should you choose an in-person session, she will underscore and ensure you have done so with informed consent, signing a waiver form and full understanding of the in-office COVID procedures. Also, please note that these directives are dynamic and are always changing based on health safety and regional restrictions. She will always ensure information is being communicated via email, my booking site (Jane App) and my website.

Rates

$150.00 per 60 minute ongoing session. $225.00 per 90 minute intake session.
There is no tax on this fee as Registered Social Workers are exempt from charging HST
Lori has a certain number of sliding spots available. Please speak with her directly if you have a question about sliding scale options.
If you have benefits, Lori encourages you to inquire if your coverage includes a Registered Social Worker (MSW RSW). Lori will provide a paid receipt after each session that may be submitted for reimbursement if you have coverage.

Payment

Lori’s buisness platform Jane App will send an automatic reminder for any scheduled appointment 2 days prior (email) and 1 hour prior the day of your appointment (text). The text message will be a reminder to send an e-transfer payment.
Payment can be made by e-transfer to emdr@gmail.com

Confidentiality

Lori adheres to all legal and ethical standards of confidentiality. As per these standards, limits to confidentiality include situations of imminent risk to self or others. Lori will discuss confidentiality and limits to confidentiality with you in the intake process.

Cancellation Policy

In the event of cancellation, please provide 24 hours notice so the appointment spot can be offered to someone else.

Clients will be given one freebie cancelation (for any reason, at any time) within the year. This freebie means you will not be charged or expected to reschedule and it is within your discretion as to when you most need to use this accommodation.

After the freebie is used, clients are responsible for their full session fee when you cancel. If you provide Lori with at least 24 hour notice, you can just simply reschedule (to avoid any charge) a make-up the week of, before or after the missed session, if we can find a time that works. It is not always a guarantee that I can find a mutual time, so, please keep that in mind. Lori will do her best to help you reschedule within the week, to avoid the full cost. If you do not reschedule before 24 hours, Lori cannot make up that time.

Lori recognizes and appreciates that life comes up, such as: family obligations; traffic; work fulfillments; sickness; inclement weather; and/or just not feeling your best. Lori would be happy to discuss how alternative modalities, such as phone or virtual could possibly meet your need on your scheduled appointment date and time and or doing so on a rescheduled agreed time. There may be exceptions made to this cancellation policy in exceptional circumstances of illness or emergency.