About Randi
Randi Butwin is a licensed marriage and family therapist who focuses on relationship and identity concerns. She works with teens and adults who are trying to move out of harmful relationships or navigate changes in their connections.
Background and approach
Randi speaks plainly and helps clients break big problems into manageable steps. She draws on experience from several settings, including hospice work supporting end of life and bereavement, school-based support for children and teens, a community clinic serving transitional youth, and independent practice with couples.
That mix shapes a flexible, practical approach to personal and relational change. In sessions she listens closely to each person's story and priorities.
She helps clients identify small choices they can make now. Conversations may include improving communication, addressing identity and gender questions, or coping with stress and anxiety after a major life change.
Randi uses techniques from client-centered therapy to follow what matters most to the client. She also incorporates narrative therapy ideas to help people reframe painful experiences and create new meaning.
For relationship work she draws on the Gottman Method to strengthen how partners listen and repair conflict. Her work often touches on topics such as LGBT concerns, intimacy and sexuality, parenting strains, ADHD, multicultural stress, non-monogamous relationships, and first responder or veteran-related issues.
Randi is licensed in California as an LMFT and provides care in English. She aims to make sessions straightforward, goal-focused, and respectful.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-centered therapy means sessions start with the client's concerns and move at their pace. It focuses on listening, reflecting, and making choices that feel right for the person. This style helps with identity work, relationship choices, and self-esteem concerns.The Gottman Method offers concrete skills for couples and partners. It emphasizes clear communication, repairing conflict, and building small habits that improve connection over time. Those skills can be practiced and reviewed during video or phone sessions with real-life homework between meetings.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and adapt techniques based on what feels most useful. That collaborative process helps decide whether client-centered listening, narrative reframing, or Gottman tools will best support a client's needs.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls allow direct conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or a brief check-in fits a lunch break. Live chat and text messaging are helpful for shorter updates, processing in smaller steps, or when writing out thoughts is easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep progress moving between scheduled sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- ADHD
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Intimacy-related issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English