About S.
S. Craig Hufford is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Missouri with 25 years of experience. He focuses on stress and anxiety, relationship and intimacy concerns, grief and loss, and other life transitions.
He frames clients as the experts on their own stories and offers steady support for people ready to make changes. He uses straightforward conversation and active listening to help people name what feels hard. Sessions focus on realistic steps people can try between meetings.
Background and approach
He brings a calm, respectful manner and a focus on practical tools that fit each person’s life. Craig works with a wide range of concerns, including parenting stress, career strain, trauma and abuse, and compassion fatigue. He also addresses issues tied to family of origin, divorce and separation, abandonment, and blended family dynamics.
When medical or end-of-life matters are involved he helps with hospice and caregiver stress. His approach draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, client-centered practice, cognitive behavioral methods, dialectical behavior ideas, and existential themes. Those methods are used to help people manage anxiety, sharpen communication, and rebuild self-esteem.
The goal is to help people take meaningful steps forward. People who see Craig can expect a collaborative relationship. He validates struggles while encouraging small experiments and new habits.
Over time the focus moves from managing symptoms to clarifying values and building a more satisfying daily life.
Therapeutic options for online anxiety and relationship work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on clarifying what matters to you and taking small actions that reflect those values, which can ease worry and indecision. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts and behaviors keep problems going and introduces practical techniques to shift those patterns, useful for anxiety and mood concerns. Client-Centered Therapy centers on listening, empathy, and respect so people can feel understood and explore issues at their own pace.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked in the past. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust them as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video sessions are good for a fuller face-to-face feel, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for quick check-ins, and text messaging lets people send short thoughts between meetings. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and to keep momentum between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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