About Craig
Craig Limbert offers calm, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low mood or past trauma. He speaks plainly and listens carefully to help clients make sense of their situation and take small steps forward. Craig has worked in mental health services for thirty years and brings steady experience to sessions.
He uses a person-centred way of working that puts the client's concerns and goals at the centre of therapy.
How Craig works
That means sessions focus on what matters to the individual and move at a pace that feels right for them. He also draws on psychodynamic ideas to look at how past experiences may affect current feelings and relationships. Craig has worked across the NHS and social care, including roles supporting people with severe depression, anxiety and complex needs.
He has experience in advocating for people in mental health settings and in providing psychological approaches in primary care. His background includes management and teaching roles in social work and mental health services. In sessions he aims to create an open, respectful space where people can speak freely about fears and hopes.
He helps people explore patterns that cause distress and tries to identify practical steps that reduce pressure and improve coping. Craig is comfortable working with people from varied cultural and sexual orientations. He holds an advanced diploma in counselling and is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.
His long career includes volunteer crisis work and many years supporting people in community mental health services. He uses this experience to offer steady, experienced support for those facing difficult life changes.
Craig lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Craig works with
The areas below are the ones Craig selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 30 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Flexible approaches for online therapy
Craig uses person-centred work to place the client's experience and goals at the heart of sessions. This approach focuses on listening, reflecting and helping people find their own solutions, and it suits a wide range of concerns from low mood to relationship worries.He also uses cognitive behavioural techniques to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and test new ways of thinking and acting. CBT is useful for anxiety, stress and depressive patterns because it breaks problems into practical steps that can be tried between sessions.
Finding the right mix of approaches is a shared process. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals and preferences and agree on a way of working that feels comfortable. This collaborative decision can change as therapy progresses to reflect what helps most.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls create a face-to-face feeling when that is helpful. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging suit shorter check-ins, people who process better in writing, or those fitting therapy around work and family commitments. Registered or accredited professionals can adapt the session format to match the practical needs of each person.
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