About Philip
Philip Craig is an AASW counsellor with five years of professional experience helping people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and relationship concerns. He works with issues like self-esteem, motivation and compassion fatigue in a straightforward, respectful way. Philip aims to make the first step feel manageable and supportive.
Philip adapts conversations and treatment plans to each person's needs. Sessions focus on clear goals and practical steps rather than jargon. He listens for what matters most and helps people try new ways of coping and relating.
How Philip works
His approach draws on therapies that teach skills and build emotional awareness. Philip uses techniques that help people notice painful thoughts and move toward valued action. He also pays attention to attachment patterns and how relationships shape reactions and choices.
People come for many reasons including grief, addiction concerns, intimacy issues, parenting strain, career stress, ADHD and chronic health challenges. He also supports those navigating sexual identity and kink-affirming concerns in a nonjudgemental way. Philip works to make sessions relevant to each person’s everyday life.
Philip describes his style as calm and direct, with an emphasis on practical tools and honest conversation. He offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to suit different needs. If someone wants a therapist who focuses on small, steady changes, Philip aims to provide steady support.
Philip lists 14 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
What Philip works with
The areas below are the ones Philip selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | AASW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Australia |
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Online support options
How Philip’s approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values rather than getting stuck in avoidance. It can be useful for anxiety, depression and coping with life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current responses and helps people build different ways of relating and self-soothing. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting thought and behaviour patterns that keep problems going and practising small experiments to change them; it suits issues like anxiety, depression and stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Philip will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then use one or more of these methods together. The process is collaborative - he helps people try approaches and adjust based on what feels helpful.
Online sessions can take place by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging, offering practical flexibility. Video calls are good for face-to-face interaction and teaching skills, phone sessions can fit a break at work or lower bandwidth, and messaging options work for brief check-ins or step-by-step support between meetings. These formats make it easier to work on stress, routines and behaviour change without needing to travel.
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