About John
John Craig is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 20 years of experience helping adults manage stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, and ADHD. He practices from Florida and uses straightforward, practical methods to help people make changes that matter in daily life.
He offers care in a calm, respectful manner and aims to make sessions easy to follow for worried parents reading on a phone. His style is warm and nonjudgmental.
Background and approach
He centers the conversation on each person’s goals and concerns. Sessions focus on clear steps clients can try between appointments and on building routines that support better sleep, mood, and attention. John draws on client-centered work and cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful patterns and test new ways of thinking.
He also uses mindfulness practices to help people notice thoughts and feelings without getting swept up by them. Motivational interviewing helps when someone is uncertain about making a change. In sessions he listens for what matters most and then offers small, realistic goals.
He talks through coping strategies for daily stress, relapse prevention for addictions, and pacing for grief or trauma recovery. For people with ADHD concerns he focuses on practical structure, time management ideas, and reducing overwhelm. People who prefer direct guidance and a collaborative tone tend to do well with his approach.
He explains tools plainly and adjusts pacing so clients can try new skills between meetings. John aims to help people move from feeling stuck to having workable next steps.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
John combines client-centered work with cognitive behavioral therapy to help people clarify goals and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Client-centered work means the conversation follows what matters most to the person, while the therapist offers empathy and practical feedback. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at patterns of thought and behavior and teaches small experiments to test new ways of responding.He also uses mindfulness therapy to help people notice thoughts and sensations without reacting automatically. That approach can be helpful for managing anxiety, stress, and attention challenges by building moment-to-moment awareness and simple breathing or attention exercises.
Choosing the right approach is a shared process. John will listen to your priorities, try a method, and adjust based on what helps. He works with clients to set small, achievable goals and checks in about which techniques feel useful over time.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to match different schedules and needs. Video is useful for longer sessions and face-to-face conversation. Phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits a break from work. Live chat or messaging can help maintain momentum between meetings and offer quick, written support when that works better.
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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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