About Craig
Craig Bray is a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in California. He brings six years of clinical experience to sessions and focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, anger, relationship concerns, and LGBT issues.
Background and approach
Craig aims to listen without judgment and help people find clearer paths forward. He shapes conversations to each person’s needs rather than using one-size-fits-all plans.
Sessions are practical and direct, with attention to feelings, behavior, and real-life choices. Clients can expect grounded tools for managing strong emotions and for improving communication.
Craig uses several approaches to inform his work. He draws on client-centered methods to keep the person’s experience central.
Cognitive behavioral ideas help identify and change unhelpful thoughts and habits. Psychodynamic and narrative ideas are used when exploring how past events shape current patterns.
He also addresses specific life concerns such as abandonment, attachment struggles, body image, caregiving stress, codependency, and control issues. Craig helps people navigate divorce and separation, fatherhood questions, and end-of-life or hospice related stress.
Sessions are offered in English and Craig accepts international clients. He works with people who want respectful, focused support while they make changes.
The aim is to empower each person to move toward more satisfying daily life.
Approaches That Guide Online Sessions
Craig uses client-centered work to keep each person’s experience at the heart of sessions, focusing on active listening and building a trusting connection. This helps when someone needs a calm space to talk through feelings and make decisions. He also incorporates cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at thought patterns and day-to-day behaviors and teaches practical strategies for reducing anxiety and managing anger.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Craig will work together with each person to figure out which methods fit their goals and preferences. That collaborative planning can mean trying a few ideas and adjusting based on what proves most useful.
Online therapy with Craig is available through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different routines. Video calls suit longer discussions and face-to-face interaction. Phone sessions can fit into a lunch break or low-bandwidth situations. Live chat or text messaging work well for shorter check-ins or when someone prefers writing to speaking. These options are meant to make consistent support easier to fit into daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English