About Gregory
Gregory Buttner uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people manage addiction, trauma, grief, and mood concerns. He is a licensed marriage and family therapist in California and brings 12 years of professional experience to his work.
Background and approach
Gregory aims to support people who want clearer choices and better ways to cope. He focuses on addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, and coping with life changes.
He also helps with issues like abandonment, attachment struggles, codependency, and process addictions such as gambling or problematic pornography use. He pays attention to overlap between problems, such as co-morbidity of mood symptoms and substance concerns.
In sessions, Gregory helps people identify strengths they can use day to day. He emphasizes small, practical steps that build over time.
People can expect straightforward conversation and concrete ideas to try between sessions. Gregory has worked with first responder issues, multicultural concerns, panic and anxiety, and effects of discrimination.
He also supports people dealing with isolation or impulsivity, and those working through forgiveness and loss. His background includes a variety of clinical settings in California over the past 12 years.
He offers sessions in English and provides care through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules a time that fits their needs.
His practice uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
Evidence-Based Work You Can Do Online
Gregory uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques focused on clear, practical work. One common approach helps people learn new coping skills for stress, panic, and mood symptoms by teaching concrete breathing, grounding, and behavior-change exercises. These tools are useful for depression, panic attacks, and daily anxiety.Another approach centers on addressing addiction and process behaviors by mapping triggers and building alternative routines. This method helps people spot patterns around substance use or compulsive habits and then try step-by-step changes to regain control.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Gregory will talk with each person about goals, history, and what feels manageable. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust plans as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Video lets people use visual cues and longer conversations. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text provide quick, ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and stay consistent with treatment.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English