About Craig
Craig Carpenter is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, and relationship strain. He offers straightforward, goal-focused support and practical tools people can use between sessions. Craig aims to make therapy feel useful and manageable for busy lives.
He combines common-sense coaching with evidence-informed techniques. Sessions often focus on identifying realistic goals, building coping skills, and practicing new habits that reduce distress. Craig uses methods that help people notice thoughts and emotions, clarify values, and take steps that matter to them.
Background and approach
His background includes 14 years of clinical experience working in a range of settings, including complex mental health care. That experience shaped his direct and pragmatic style. He draws on a variety of approaches so work can be tailored to each person’s needs.
Craig commonly helps people dealing with grief, life transitions, chronic health or pain challenges, and issues related to substance use. He also supports people navigating identity concerns, fatherhood issues, and the stresses that come from demanding jobs like first responder roles. Sessions address communication problems, codependency, and family of origin patterns when relevant.
Craig provides therapy from Oklahoma and offers services to people in English. He aims to collaborate on clear goals and measurable steps so progress is visible. People who want a practical, honest approach to change may find his style a good match.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and focus on actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions where motivation and meaning matter.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It provides clear exercises and practical strategies to reduce symptoms like worry or low mood and to change patterns that fuel distress.
Client-Centered Therapy centers the person’s experience and priorities. The therapist follows your lead, offering empathy and support while you decide the pace and focus of the work.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Craig will review your goals, try methods that fit your situation, and adjust the plan based on what helps. This is a collaborative process where your preferences guide which methods are used.
Online sessions offer flexibility and different ways to stay connected. Video calls are useful for in-depth conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit into a shorter break or be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, practice between sessions, or ongoing coaching-style support. These options make it easier to keep steady progress while managing a busy life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- 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