Prisma Psychology
Come Home to Your Self: Somatic Parts Work for Sensitive Souls

Get in touch Learn More

About

Hi, I’m Dr. Elizabeth Fox Butler. I don't see the world as black. vs. white, light vs. dark, etc.; I think in rainbow.

I’m a licensed clinical health psychologist, but you might also call me a mind mender and a sensitive person whisperer. I’m a neurosparkly and neurodiversity-loving human, parent, child, therapist, client, teacher, student, and much more (as we all are!) on a lifelong journey to hone self-acceptance and healthily channeling life force. Supporting fellow neurodivergent parents, teens, and young adults is my life’s purpose. I hope to set an example by consistently investing in my own healing and realization of my highest self so my cup is full and I can serve others from a thoroughly nourished place.

I help Highly Sensitive and/or Neurodivergent individuals, romantic partners, and parent-child dyads 13+ with trauma, anxiety, grief, strengths and struggles related to various sensitivities, and more. 

Who I Serve My Approach
I can help you if you’re ready for change but don’t know where to start. You long to feel accepted but lost when you try to express yourself. You want to stop hurting but aren’t sure how to comfort yourself.

I help neurodivergent people, highly sensitive and introverted adults, partners, teens, and parents:
• Repair your relationships through deep healing and more connection
• Embrace your strengths and flaws to reduce inner conflict
• Learn to observe and manage day-to-day energy levels, structure your routines to fuel your energy and share your gifts
• Cope with stress without feeling deprived or driven into unwanted coping attempts
• Seek and embrace social support
• Minimize, redirect, and soothe anxiety
• Channel your sensitivity and use it for good
• Modify your environment so you can thrive and enjoy the little things
• Fine-tune and follow your intuition
• Repair your relationship to mind-altering substances and/or compulsive behaviors
I know from my own growth and helping hundreds of sensitive and introverted clients that you, too, are capable of facing your fears, healing your pain, and living a full life. Change happens through subtle and steady action, which adds up to significant results. Click here for more information about my approach.
Some of my most recent training experiences include:
• Healing the Ancestral Lines (Year 1 & 2) at The Last Mask Center
• Integrative Psychiatry Institute's yearlong intensive psychedelic-assisted therapy fellowship
• Internal Family Systems for Parents with Frank Anderson, MD
• Growing Orchids: Raising the High-Needs or Orchid Child
• Keys to Deepening Your Breathwork Practice with Neurodynamic Breathwork Online
• Community-Based Neuroprotective Developmental Care for Mothers and Babies
• It Takes a Village: Creating Conditions of Acceptance for Gender Nonconforming Children and Youth at Mind the Gap
• DBT Skills Training – A Complete Course at The Linehan Institute
• A Contemporary Psychoanalytic Approach to Couples Therapy
• What’s Your Gender? A Gender Affirmative Model for Working with Children and Youth with Diane Ehrensaft
• Energy Body Maintenance and Energy Body Clearing with the Last Mask Center
• Therapeutic Touch for Healers with Jim Gilkeson CST
• Brain Training Program for Highly Sensitive People with Julie Bjelland LMFT

Specialties

Neurodiversity-Affirming Support

My IFS-inspired approach celebrates neurological differences commonly known as Autism Spectrum Disorder, ADHD, Highly Sensitive People, and general learning differences, focusing on strengths rather than deficits. We'll work together to help you find and nurture the environments, relationships, and lifestyle that best fits you, and not the other way around. This therapy provides support, understanding, and strategies that honor each person's unique way of thinking, feeling, and experiencing the world.

Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy

This service offers Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) in collaboration with Journey Clinical's medical team, as well as harm reduction and integration support for individuals using psychedelics such as Psilocybin, MDMA, and Cannabis. With specialized training and practicum experience, the therapist provides guidance in preparation, safe use, and integration, helping clients explore, gain new perspectives, and work through limiting patterns in a safe, inclusive, and culturally humble environment.

Traumatic Grief Recovery

Whether your grief stems from acute trauma or long-term pain, I am here to hold space for and help move through those stuck, incomplete expressions. I use somatic parts work and shamanic tools to help individuals heal, process experiences, and regain a sense of safety and balance.

Healing for Parents

When we become parents, our younger parts wake up from tentative hibernation and call out to us for help at each stage of development. Deep maturity and true, long-term recovery is possible when we tend these lifelong wounds. My passion for shepherding parents through the rite of passage of stepping into parenthood burns like a rainbow fire!

Frequently Asked Questions

What Can I Expect in a Session?


We use real-life examples and explore both present-day and past contributors to distress. Then we slow down with the relevant parts of you -which we all have! - and get to know their needs. You learn to approach yourself differently in the future via learning new, more effective methods of self-expression and balanced validation. We tune into the body, mind, and spirit to integrate the realms of what is actually already whole. Sessions are available either in person in Los Osos, California or online for all California residents.

Energy Exchange

My full rate is $250/50-minute session. I offer prorated shorter sessions for younger folks or quick check-ins, and longer sessions for those who might like extended meetings. Longer sessions can enhance progress and shorten the overall amount of time needed for some folks. I have limited sliding scale slots available; Please do not hesitate to reach out regarding my current sliding scale availability if you belong to a marginalized group(s) and I'll be happy to discuss options.

Should I Use My Insurance?

Depending on your current health insurance provider or employee benefit plan, it is possible for services to be covered in full or in part. Please contact your provider to verify how your plan compensates you for psychotherapy services. Some plans with out of network benefits will reimburse for my services. I require out of pocket payment up front at each session. I offer insurance filing forms monthly for you to submit and you will receive direct reimbursement.

For several reasons, including protecting your confidentiality, I do not accept insurance as an in-network provider. Depending on your current health plan, your services may be covered in full or in part by out of network benefits. Please contact your provider to verify how your plan compensates you for out of network psychotherapy services.

This means you pay the fee out of pocket at each session. Each month, my assistant or I can send you an out of network reimbursement form for you to submit to your insurance company. Then your insurance company will reimburse you directly, sending payment to your home address.

What Does “Confidentiality” Mean?

Your therapy sessions are confidential. No information about you will be discussed with anyone without your written permission. However, California state law requires exceptions to this rule in the following situations: (a) current or past unreported child abuse or neglect; (b) elder abuse; (c) a threat to the life of another person; (d) court subpoena; (e) medical emergency while in session. Confidentiality may also be broken if you are in imminent danger of harming yourself or if you are gravely disabled (i.e., planning suicide or unable to provide food, clothing or shelter for yourself).