About Craig
Craig Salisbury is a licensed professional clinical counselor in New Mexico with 20 years of experience. He focuses on practical help for stress, anxiety, anger, mood concerns, addiction, grief, and life changes. He speaks English and Spanish and works with people from diverse backgrounds.
He starts by listening to what feels most urgent. Conversations are shaped to each person’s needs instead of following a fixed script. That means building small, doable steps for managing panic, reducing daily stress, or coping with loss.
Background and approach
Over two decades he has supported people facing depression, bipolar mood challenges, and relationship strain. He also addresses work-related burnout and compassion fatigue, and helps people who feel isolated, empty, or stuck about life purpose. Sessions can focus on problem-solving skills, handling strong emotions, or making plans for change.
Craig adapts the pace so clients can practice new ways to respond between meetings. He emphasizes clear communication and straightforward tools that fit day-to-day life. He offers sessions in multiple formats, including video calls, phone, live chat, and text messaging.
If someone wants to begin, they complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a time that works for them.
How evidence-based approaches work online
Craig uses common evidence-based techniques delivered in plain language. One approach focuses on skills for managing intense emotions and panic - teaching step-by-step breathing, grounding, and short coping exercises that can be used right away. Another approach emphasizes behavioral strategies to reduce stress and lift mood, like building daily routines, activity scheduling, and testing small changes to see what helps most.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist listens to goals and current challenges, then suggests techniques to try together. Sessions adjust over time so methods match the person's needs, pace, and preferences rather than forcing a single plan.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into real life. Video lets people meet face-to-face when more interaction helps. Phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow shorter touchpoints and written reflections between sessions. These options give flexibility for scheduling, follow-up, and practicing skills between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- New Mexico
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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