About Craig
Craig Johnson is a licensed mental health counselor who aims to make the first step feel manageable. He focuses on clear, practical support for people coping with stress, anxiety, addictions, gambling or gaming problems, and life changes. He has worked in the field for many decades and brings a steady, straightforward manner to sessions.
He tailors conversations and treatment plans to each person's needs rather than using one set approach for everyone.
Background and approach
Sessions center on understanding what is getting in the way now and trying simple changes that make daily life easier. Craig listens for patterns around impulsivity, isolation, guilt, shame, and money stress and helps people break them down into workable steps.
Over a 40 year career he has supported people managing panic, mood concerns, social anxiety, attachment and abandonment wounds, and questions about purpose. His work also addresses forgiveness and the emotional weight of past decisions. The goal is less about labels and more about practical strategies that reduce distress and increase control.
Craig works with people in New York and conducts sessions in English. He uses a direct, compassionate tone and focuses on helping someone build routines and skills that fit their life. He encourages honest conversation and collaborative planning so progress feels realistic and sustainable.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Craig draws on practical, evidence-based techniques that focus on behavior and problem solving. One common approach emphasizes breaking problems into clear steps and practicing small behavior changes to reduce anxiety and impulsive habits. This helps with things like panic, social anxiety, and compulsive behaviors by training new responses over time.Another frequently used approach centers on understanding attachment and emotional patterns. It looks at how past relationships affect current reactions, and then teaches ways to respond differently when old triggers appear. This can be useful for loneliness, abandonment wounds, and difficulties with trust or forgiveness.
Finding the right mix of methods is a collaborative process. The therapist will review your goals, try approaches that fit your situation, and adjust the plan based on what helps. Clients and the therapist decide together which techniques to keep using.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for longer therapy work and face-to-face conversation, phone works when bandwidth is low, live chat can be a quick check-in, and text messaging lets someone share thoughts between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family, and daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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