About Kaneesha
Kaneesha Craig is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) based in Illinois. She brings 15 years of experience working in different settings, from hospital care for people with chronic mental illness to community agencies helping clients adjust to life changes. She favors a warm, engaging style and centers the person in sessions.
Kaneesha focuses on respect and collaboration while helping people notice and change unhelpful patterns. She uses practical techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy to address thoughts and behaviors that get in the way of daily life.
Background and approach
Her practice addresses a wide range of concerns including anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, stress, addictions, relationship and intimacy-related issues, grief, self-esteem, and ADHD. Kaneesha also helps with parenting strain, sleep and eating problems, career stress, and compassion fatigue from caregiving or first responder roles. In sessions she combines problem-solving and goal-focused methods with client-centered conversation.
That means sessions often involve setting small goals, trying specific strategies between meetings, and checking what works. Motivational interviewing is used when people need help finding reasons and energy to make changes. Kaneesha works with clients to build skills for coping with life transitions and painful memories.
She aims to help people improve daily routines, reduce distressing symptoms, and move toward the life they want. The approach is collaborative and focused on practical steps that fit each person’s situation.
Approach-driven online care that fits your life
Client-centered work prioritizes the person you are and what matters most to you. In practice that means the therapist listens closely, reflects your concerns, and follows your pace while helping you identify next steps that feel doable.Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. Sessions use clear tools and exercises to test unhelpful thoughts, change behaviors, and build routines that reduce anxiety, depression, or problems with sleep and eating.
The therapist will help you decide which approach or mix of approaches works best. That choice is a collaborative process based on your goals, preferences, and what you want to change. Kaneesha checks in regularly and adjusts methods when something isn’t helpful.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different schedules and needs. Video is useful for deeper conversations and practice work, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat is a quicker check-in option, and messaging supports ongoing contact between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy days while keeping the focus on the goals you set.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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