About Craig
Craig Bray is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) in California with six years of experience helping people cope with stress and anxiety. He focuses on practical, respectful support for those facing relationship strain, anger, depression, or questions about sexual and gender identity. Craig aims to make first steps feel manageable for worried people searching for change.
He builds sessions around what each person needs. Conversations are shaped to match goals, pace, and life realities rather than following a one-size-fits-all script.
Background and approach
Expect a calm, straightforward style that invites honest talk and clear next steps. Craig draws on client-centered methods that keep the person's perspective central. He also uses cognitive behavioral ideas to help people notice unhelpful thinking and try different behaviors.
These tools are useful when anxiety, stress, or persistent low mood get in the way of daily life. He also works with deeper life questions through elements of psychodynamic and existential approaches, helping people understand patterns that repeat over time and consider values and meaning. Narrative techniques are used to reframe difficult stories and strengthen personal agency.
Sessions cover a wide range of concerns beyond anxiety, including abandonment, body image, caregiver stress, codependency, communication problems, and end-of-life issues. Craig accepts international clients and conducts work in English. He encourages people to take the next step when they feel ready.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Craig combines client-centered work with cognitive behavioral strategies to help people manage anxiety and stress. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and tailoring conversation to the person's experience so they feel heard and understood. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact and provides concrete skills to test new ways of thinking and acting when anxiety or low mood interfere.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Craig will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, and then recommend ways of working that fit their needs. That process is collaborative and can change as progress is made or new priorities emerge.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video is useful for a full-session conversation that mirrors in-person work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging offer brief check-ins or step-by-step skill practice between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy days and different life situations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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