About Craig
Craig Gordon is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Virginia with 12 years of clinical experience. He helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship struggles, and life transitions. His approach aims to make it easier to talk about painful thoughts and begin practical change.
Craig keeps sessions straightforward and focused. He listens first and then helps people set small, doable goals. Conversations often include identifying upsetting thoughts, building skills to manage strong emotions, and practicing new ways to handle conflict or change.
Background and approach
He uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot and shift unhelpful thinking patterns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills come into play for managing intense emotions and improving coping tools. The Gottman Method informs work on communication and relationship habits when relationship issues are a concern.
Craig also supports people facing attachment and abandonment concerns, problems with communication, feelings of isolation, and struggles around life purpose. He has experience with blended family stress, separation and divorce issues, and the effects of past domestic violence or family-of-origin wounds. Sessions aim to be collaborative and practical.
Craig helps people build strategies they can use between meetings, and he adjusts pacing to match each person’s needs. The goal is clearer thinking, calmer reactions, and better day-to-day functioning.
Approaches that shape online sessions
Craig often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new ways of thinking. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress when everyday thinking patterns get in the way of feeling better.He also applies Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. DBT tools are helpful when emotions feel intense or when impulsive reactions cause problems in relationships and daily life.
The choice of approach is a collaborative decision. He will work with the person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences, and will adapt techniques as progress is made. Finding the right fit is an ongoing conversation rather than a one-time decision.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for skills practice, phone sessions can be used when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and messaging suits those who prefer written reflections. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and varied daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Virginia, District of Columbia
- Languages
- English
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