About S.
S. Craig Hufford is a licensed professional counselor with 25 years of experience in Missouri. He focuses on practical help for stress, anxiety, relationships, grief, and intimacy-related challenges.
He approaches sessions with respect for each person's story and strengths. His style aims to make beginning therapy feel straightforward and manageable. He uses clear, goal-oriented methods to help people handle life changes, parenting strain, and career stress.
Sessions often include tools for coping with depression, compassion fatigue, and trauma reactions.
Background and approach
He also addresses concerns like abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, blended family dynamics, and fatherhood questions. Hufford brings attention to family of origin problems, communication breakdowns, divorce or separation, and conflicts around fertility or infidelity. He works with people facing hospice, end-of-life concerns, caregiver stress, guilt, and forgiveness.
First responder issues and grief after loss are also areas he supports. His approach draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, and Existential Therapy. That mix lets him match techniques to each person's needs and values.
He encourages small, actionable steps that build confidence over time. Sessions are offered in English and delivered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Therapy uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
To begin, prospective clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule based on therapist availability.
Approach and online options for therapy
S. Craig Hufford commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in his work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values, which can ease anxiety and life-change stress. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and introduces practical strategies to change unhelpful patterns and improve mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work. He collaborates with each person to choose methods that match goals, preferences, and the issues at hand. That might mean combining strategies from different approaches and adjusting techniques over time as progress unfolds.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation for skills practice and deeper discussion. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging give ongoing access between appointments and can support day-to-day coping. These options aim to increase flexibility and make consistent care more manageable for people balancing work, caregiving, or other responsibilities.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English