John Craig
Compassionate social work focused on practical change
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About John
John Craig is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with two decades of experience helping adults navigate difficult life moments. He practices in Florida and focuses on practical ways to reduce distress and restore daily functioning. He uses clear, direct conversation to understand each person’s situation and priorities.
If a parent is reading and feeling overwhelmed, he aims to make the first steps straightforward and manageable. He draws on Client-Centered Therapy to build a respectful, nonjudgmental space where clients set the pace.
Background and approach
He also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify unhelpful thinking and try small, doable behavior changes. Mindfulness techniques are offered to lower stress and improve attention to the present moment. Sessions emphasize collaboration and real-world skills.
He listens for what feels most urgent and helps create short-term goals that fit daily life. Homework is practical and brief, focused on things people can try between meetings. John’s background as an LCSW means he brings social work perspectives to emotional and practical problems.
Over 20 years he has worked with many different kinds of issues, including anxiety, depression, trauma, addictions, and parenting concerns. He values steady progress over dramatic promises. When starting, he will review what matters most to the client and suggest an approach tailored to those needs.
He keeps language simple and sessions focused, so clients can build routines that support healthier days.
Approach and online options that fit your life
John often blends Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in online work. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on respectful listening and letting the client guide what feels most important. It helps people feel heard and decide what changes matter to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at thoughts and actions and teaches specific tools to reduce anxiety, improve mood, and change behaviors that get in the way of daily life.He treats finding the right approach as a team effort. Early sessions are used to learn about a person’s goals and try techniques that match those goals. If one approach does not fit, he will suggest alternatives and adapt the plan with the client’s input.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. These formats let people meet from home, fit sessions into busy schedules, and continue work between in-person visits when needed. The mix of short messaging and longer video or phone sessions can be useful for steady progress while keeping therapy adaptable to everyday life.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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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