About Lois
Lois Craig is a California-based licensed clinician with 12 years of experience helping adults manage persistent stress, anxiety, depression, and the fallout from trauma and abuse. She holds the LPCC credential, which indicates her state licensure. Her approach centers on practical steps to reduce symptoms and restore daily functioning.
Lois listens for how past experiences shape current worries. She helps people notice physical reactions and emotional patterns that get in the way.
Background and approach
Conversations focus on clear, doable strategies rather than clinical jargon. Clients come for different reasons - panic attacks, low self-worth, workplace strain, grief from relationship ruptures, and trouble managing life changes. Lois pays attention to attachment and abandonment concerns and the guilt or control issues that often accompany them.
She also supports people dealing with caregiving stress and women's issues. Her style is collaborative and straightforward. Sessions aim to build skills for coping in everyday moments and to reduce overwhelming symptoms.
She uses techniques that engage both mind and body to help people move forward. Lois offers sessions in several online formats to fit busy lives. She works in English and sees clients located in California.
People who want a therapist who combines practical tools with sensitivity toward trauma often find her approach helpful.
How evidence-based techniques fit into online therapy
Lois draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that combine attention to both thoughts and bodily reactions. One approach focuses on noticing physical sensations linked to stress and trauma, and then using targeted exercises to reduce those reactions and increase calm. This can help with panic attacks, post-traumatic stress, and persistent anxiety.Another approach centers on processing difficult memories in a paced way while tracking emotional and somatic responses. That work aims to lessen the hold of painful memories and improve day-to-day functioning after trauma or abuse. Both approaches are practical and oriented toward symptom relief and improved coping.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels manageable, then adjust methods as therapy progresses. Clients help shape which techniques are used and how quickly to move.
Online formats make regular therapy easier to fit into life. Video calls let people use visual connection for deeper work. Phone sessions can be simpler when video isn’t possible or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging suit quick check-ins, short coaching moments, or times when typing feels easier than speaking. These options offer flexibility so therapy can continue around work, caregiving, and other demands.
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- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English