About Kaneesha
Kaneesha Craig is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) practicing in Illinois with 15 years of experience in mental health care. She blends client-centered principles with cognitive behavioral techniques to support people navigating relationship challenges, trauma and abuse, anxiety, depression, addiction, and stress-related concerns.
Background and approach
Her background includes work with clients across hospital and community agency settings, which informs a pragmatic, empathetic approach to treatment. Craig’s practice emphasizes collaboration and respect, encouraging clients to take ownership of behaviors while exploring new strategies for coping and growth.
She also addresses a wide range of related issues such as grief, intimacy concerns, sleep and eating difficulties, ADHD, compassion fatigue, family and communication problems, and adjustment to life changes. With an adaptable, engaging manner she helps clients set realistic goals and apply practical tools from CBT alongside client-centered support and motivational techniques.
Available to international clients, she offers flexible session formats and works toward each individual’s desired level of wellness through a clinical partnership focused on clarity, accountability, and sustainable progress.
Evidence-Based Approaches for Online Care
Kaneesha Craig uses client-centered therapy to create an accepting, nonjudgmental environment where the client's perspective guides the work. This approach focuses on empathy, respect, and collaboration and is helpful for building trust while addressing self-esteem, relationship and family concerns, and adjustment to life changes.
She also applies cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through practical strategies and skill-building. CBT is frequently used for anxiety, depression, stress management, and coping with trauma-related symptoms and addictive behaviors.
Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process and is decided collaboratively. The therapist will work with clients to understand their goals, preferences, and strengths, and then combine client-centered support with CBT techniques or motivational elements as needed to tailor the plan.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging offers practical flexibility for scheduling and for fitting care into daily life. These formats make it easier to maintain continuity of care across locations and time zones and allow licensed professionals to deliver regular, goal-focused treatment in ways that match each client’s routine and comfort.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- 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