About John
John Craig is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 20 years of experience helping adults cope with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and trauma. He practices from Florida and offers sessions by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. He aims to make therapy straightforward and usable for busy people.
He keeps sessions warm and nonjudgmental. He listens first, then works with each person to set concrete goals. Short-term tools and step-by-step strategies are used to reduce panic, ease intrusive thoughts, and manage mood swings.
Background and approach
John uses approaches that center the person's experience. He draws on client-centered methods to build trust, cognitive-behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking and behavior, and motivational interviewing to support readiness for change. He also brings narrative and mindfulness ideas into sessions when they fit the person's goals.
Practical problems get practical care. That can mean working on sleep routines, coping plans for triggers, strategies to cut down substance use, or ways to handle workplace stress and relationship strain. He also addresses areas like parenting stress, caregiver burden, chronic illness, and issues connected to attachment and abandonment.
Beginning therapy starts with a brief matching step and scheduling a first session. John aims to help people feel heard and to teach skills they can use between sessions. He focuses on small, measurable steps toward feeling better.
Practical approaches for online therapy
John often uses client-centered methods that focus on understanding a person's experience and building trust before moving to targeted work. This approach helps people feel heard and guides the plan for what comes next.He also uses cognitive behavioral therapy to spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT is useful for anxiety, panic, low mood, and sleep problems because it breaks issues into manageable steps and practical exercises.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. He will talk with the person about goals and try methods that fit their needs and preferences, adjusting over time as progress and feedback guide the plan.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls work well for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone sessions can fit a break at work or require less bandwidth, live chat and text allow brief check-ins and real-time support between meetings. These options help people use therapy in ways that match their schedules and daily life.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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