About Craig
Craig Leech is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with two decades of clinical experience. He uses a collaborative style and focuses on practical skills to help people manage stress and anxiety. Craig keeps sessions straightforward and aimed at real-life changes.
He blends client-centered therapy with cognitive behavioral techniques to tailor work to each person's needs. That means he listens first, then helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and shift habits that cause distress.
Background and approach
Mindfulness practices are used to build calm and reduce reactivity during stressful moments. Craig has worked in a variety of settings, including adolescent residential programs, inpatient psychiatric hospitals for adults and adolescents, and outpatient care. That range informs his approach to mood and anxiety problems as well as life transitions and workplace stress.
He also addresses addiction, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, grief, and issues like impulsivity, guilt, and isolation. Sessions often focus on concrete steps - small experiments, communication skills, and short-term goals to test what helps. People who prefer a practical, listening-first therapist may find his style a good fit.
Craig combines active problem solving with compassion, aiming to help people see steady improvement in daily life.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding each person's perspective and building a trusting conversation. In practice this means the therapist listens closely, reflects what they hear, and helps the person decide which goals matter most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors keep problems going and uses clear exercises to change them. CBT is useful for anxiety, panic symptoms, mood shifts, and workplace stress because it targets specific patterns that cause distress.Finding the right approach is part of the collaborative process. Craig will talk through what has helped before, learn about current challenges, and try approaches that match the client's goals and preferences. Together they adjust methods and pace based on what works in real life rather than sticking to a single technique.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which add flexibility to the work. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and guided exercises. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in fits a lunch break. Live chat and text messaging support brief reflections, skill reminders, and ongoing coaching between longer appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule while using the same therapeutic tools.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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