About Craig
Craig Carpenter is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Oklahoma. He focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, relationship struggles, and addiction concerns. Craig aims to meet each person's goals by using practical, evidence-informed approaches and by keeping sessions straightforward and goal-focused.
Craig draws on 14 years of clinical experience to guide conversations and plan next steps. He listens for what matters most to a person, then offers tools that are easy to try between sessions.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and paced to match each person's comfort level. His work often includes acceptance and commitment ideas, cognitive-behavioral techniques, and attachment-focused listening. He uses client-centered principles to make space for each person's story and priorities.
For relationship concerns he may integrate Gottman-informed ideas to improve communication and problem solving. Craig also supports people coping with life transitions, grief, chronic illness, and isolation. He helps with practical steps around career stress, parenting concerns like fatherhood issues, and challenges tied to substance use.
He pays attention to how life events shape thoughts and behavior, then helps people build routines that feel manageable. People who choose him can expect clear explanations, simple practice exercises, and check-ins on progress. He encourages honesty about setbacks and normalizes gradual change.
The aim is steady, sustainable movement toward the goals the person names.
Therapeutic approaches suited to online care
Craig often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), which focuses on clarifying values and taking small actions aligned with those values while learning to accept difficult thoughts and feelings. ACT can help with anxiety, stress, and life transitions.He also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify and adjust unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. CBT offers practical exercises and homework that translate well to video or phone sessions and can reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Craig will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. He checks in on what is working and adjusts plans so therapy stays relevant and useful.
Online formats like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and exercises that benefit from visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good choice when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat or text messaging suit people who prefer writing between sessions or want more frequent, brief support. These options offer flexibility while maintaining a consistent therapeutic plan.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Phobias
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Sex addiction
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English
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