Veronica Crawley
Collaborative counselor focusing on practical change
- Credentials
- LCMHC
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Veronica
Veronica Crawley is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) with 20 years of clinical experience. She approaches therapy as a collaborative process and focuses on helping people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, trauma, depression, relationship challenges, and addiction. Veronica listens with respect and helps clients find clearer ways to think about problems and handle strong feelings.
She uses practical strategies that match each person’s needs. Sessions may include exploring how past relationships affect current patterns and learning new skills for managing emotions and behaviors.
Background and approach
Veronica pays attention to the whole person - thoughts, feelings, body sensations, and values - when planning care. Her background includes work in outpatient settings, residential programs, schools, and agency administration. Over the years she has held roles such as psychotherapist, clinical director, school counselor, and program coordinator.
She also provides clinical and administrative supervision to other licensed clinicians. Veronica completed a bachelor’s degree in psychology at Pembroke State University and a master’s degree in Service Agency Counseling at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. She holds the NC LCMHC S4720 credential and has additional training in trauma-focused cognitive behavioral approaches and forensic interviewing.
Therapy with her asks for commitment and active participation. She aims to help people build lasting skills, reduce distress, and move toward clearer purpose and direction in life.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps people notice connection and safety needs, and then practice new ways of relating to others. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. It teaches concrete skills for managing anxiety, mood, and reactions to stress. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people identify and name feelings and use that awareness to change how they relate in close relationships.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work with the client to identify which methods fit their goals and preferences. This is a collaborative decision and can be adjusted as needs change.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and allow work to continue when in-person visits are difficult. Licensed professionals can use these formats to offer skills practice, emotion regulation work, and relational exploration in ways that match a clients life and routines.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
Next step
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- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point