Chase is a licensed therapist who still practices clinical care and is expanding into high-performance coaching. The work blends therapy depth with a coaching edge: less endless processing, more standards, accountability, and forward motion for men who carry a lot and still want to lead well.
Therapy depth with a coaching edge for high-performing men who carry a lot and still want to lead well.
Chase Butala, MS, LCPC, LPC brings 20+ years in mental health, including inpatient psychiatric care and corrections. He is licensed in Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania. Founder and owner of Undefeated Healthcare. Independently verified on Psychology Today and HeadsUpGuys.
High-performing men rarely fail from a lack of effort. They stall when the next fire hits work, marriage, parenting, health, or identity at the same time the old response stops working.
Layoffs, promotions, ownership pressure, and constant urgency leave you wired after the room gets quiet. Performance stays high while recovery disappears.
Detachment, fighting, quiet resentment, or living like roommates. You can close deals and still not know how to repair the person closest to you.
Your kids feel the half-attention. Coaching, bedtime, and weekends get interrupted by the leftover stress from the day you never put down.
Sleep drops. Patience thins. Shame gets louder. The man who built everything starts wondering why success did not buy steadiness.
Inheritance tension, parental expectations, sibling comparison, and the roles you learned young still decide how you fight, withdraw, or perform.
You know how to carry everyone else. Asking for support still feels like failure, so the same adversity keeps compounding in silence.
Chase is giving the first chapter of his upcoming book to men ready to stop performing the part and start rebuilding the operating system underneath it.
Introduction
Why would someone teaching men how to be better guys start a story like this? I am Mr. Undefeated right? I am a therapist with more than 20 years experience. I am the one that's worked in the trenches, the toughest of places, where I honed my skills as a clinician and leader. I should be the sparkling example for all the guys reading this.
It's important that this hits you in these early pages; I am the defeated man. I have almost killed myself. I have been fired from my job. I have fucked up my family. What is important is the crucible moments I've experienced and the man those moments have made.
I learned this thing we call adversity isn't bad. It's an absolutely needed phenomena in life that shows you what you need and gives you opportunity to grow. The Undefeated Man builds himself towards being Antifragile: he does not merely withstand stress, shock, or volatility, but grows, improves, and thrives as a result of them.
Chase Butala, LCPC, LPC, is a psychotherapist with almost 20 years helping individuals, couples, and families navigate mental health challenges, relationships, life transitions, and personal growth. In 2020 he founded Undefeated Healthcare, a mental health practice with locations in Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania that pairs evidence-based care with trauma-focused work aimed at growth, healing, and resilient relationships.
His career has run through some of the most complex behavioral health environments: correctional facilities, residential treatment centers, and psychiatric hospitals. That work shaped a belief that integration means accepting the broader experiences that make a whole person, then building strategies that empower a man’s relationship to himself. He holds a master’s in vocational rehabilitation counseling from West Virginia University and a bachelor’s in sociology from Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania.
Chase is still a practicing licensed therapist, and he has expanded into more personal coaching for high-performing men who need more than insight alone. The blend is intentional: clinical depth where it matters, coaching standards where momentum means more. He has also lived divorce, parenting, relationship loss, health change, and the cost of staying competent while life asks for a different man.
Chase Butala, MS, LCPC, LPC
Chase Butala, MS, LCPC, LPC
Licensed in Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania.
Request an intro call and Chase will follow up with you directly. You can also review the types of therapy Chase uses.
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If insurance is part of your plan, coverage can be explored for licensed clinical care. Accepted plans include Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cigna, Aetna, UnitedHealthcare, and TRICARE. Exact benefits depend on your plan, state, and service.
Start with a concrete diagnostic move while you wait for the intro call. Each tool is built for men who already know something is costing them.
Find the pressure point that is costing you the most at work, at home, or inside your own head.
Use this toolA one-week protocol for men who can perform under pressure but can’t seem to come down from it.
Use this toolTen standards for rebuilding how you lead yourself when the old operating system stops working.
Use this toolDownloading or using these tools is educational only. It is not medical advice, clinical decision-making, or the start of a therapeutic or coaching relationship with Chase Butala or Undefeated Healthcare.
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