About The Therapists
Jeannie Craig has experience in a variety of areas. She has experience working in a mental health setting, such as a crisis day treatment center, where she had worked with children, teens, and adults. She supervised staff and implemented activities at an evening program for families in crisis. This involved her working hands on with families by facilitating communication and psychoeducational groups. She had worked for several years on a seventy acre residential farm based in Holly. This program focused on helping teens stay out the residential juvenile system, and be able to remain with their family or transition back by reunification. She has volunteered in the past, doing outreach in the community with children and teens as well as their families in Swartz Creek, Holly and Waterford. She has worked with individuals at outpatient mental health clinics, focused on teens, children, couples, and families. She has experience with children facing issues with attention deficit hyperactive disorder, family issues, life adjustment, adoption, divorce, foster care, anxiety, depression, and trauma. She has additional experience with teens and adults that have issues with post-traumatic stress disorder, family issues, relationship issues, grief, codependency, and addiction. She has supervised an intern (training hands-on and observing her)the last two years at JE CRAIG AND ASSOCIATES where the client focus was with teens, children and their families regarding divorce, foster care, separation, life adjustment, grief, ADHD, anxiety, and trauma. Jeannie is currently taking clients ages five and up for individual, family and couples therapy. Jeannie has a Bachelors Degree in Human Services composed of three specializations: Counseling, Sociology, and Gerontology. She has a double Masters of Science specializing in Clinical and Counseling Psychology, as well as a post Bachelors Degree Certificate in Theory of Addictive Behavior.
Jeannie’s practice is guided by the belief that people are best when their whole person is balanced in physical, mental, social, and spiritual areas. People, when given the tools, can reflect on how to change and are capable of generating solutions to their own problems. Jeannie is enthusiastic about helping clients to start a new path to discover their individual talents and abilities. She uses a combination of Motivational Interviewing (MI), Internal Family Systems Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), as well as other evidenced-based techniques to help clients achieve their goals in treatment. Jeannie is dedicated to providing a nonjudgmental counseling experience, characterized by positive affirmations, integrity, compassion, and empathy. Jeannie is currently taking clients five years old and up, for individual, couples and family therapy. She is accepting clients in person, as well as telehealth, with availability given below:
Tuesday (9:00 am - 9:00 pm)
Wednesday (9:00 am - 9:00 pm)
Thursday (12:00 pm - 7:00 pm)
Friday (9:00 am - 8:00 pm)
Saturday (8:00 am - 7:00 pm)
Eric Craig earned his Bachelor degree in Psychology from Indiana University, Bloomington in 1986, and a Master’s degree in Counseling and Social Psychology from Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana in 1991. His profession has been in the practice of psychology continuously since 1991. This was the beginning of Eric’s broad range of activities within the practice of psychology; including development of behavioral interventions, risk assessments of individuals in crisis, psychological testing, and psychotherapy. Eric has worked as a supervisor over several therapists facilitating a drug court program in Owosso. He has worked outpatient therapy and as a behavioral psychologist to help people with impulse control issues, compulsive issues, emotional impairment, trauma, Schizophrenia disorder, pica, aging, life adjustment. He has worked with people struggling with different transitions in various stage of their adult life such as transitions from HS to adulting, divorce, empty nest, mid-life crisis, living after losing loved ones and retirement. He has facilitated anger management, Substance Abuse, and grief groups. He has a passion to help people as he has been in the field over thirty years.
Eric’s interests in his therapy practice include working together with families experiencing communication issues, trauma, custody issues, life adjustment, grief, reunification, abuse, divorce, and emotional issues. Eric is interested in helping parents of children that have came out as LGBTQIA2+, as to help the parents adjust and have more acceptance, as well as understanding to love their children of all ages for who they are. Eric has interests in individuals with Mood Disorders including Depression and Bipolar Disorder, Anxiety, OCD, Trauma, Borderline Personality Disorder. He has interests in help individuals with cognitive issues, grief, Self-harm, Impulse Control Disorders, Dual-Diagnosis, life transitions, interpersonal relationships, and stress management.
His clinical approach utilizes a cognitive-behavioral framework with an emphasis on providing a caring, supportive, therapeutic environment grounded in evidence based strategies. Eric applies cognitive-behavioral strategies to help individuals begin to identify and change self-defeating patterns of thinking and behavior. Eric’s therapeutic style is often focused on developing insight as well as learning new effective skills to reach one’s desired changes. He provides DBT-Informed therapy, which includes mindfulness, interpersonal relationship skills, and distress tolerance skills that will offer education and practical help for clients that have problems related to trauma or anxiety. Eric has recently been certified in Neuropsychotherapy. He has attended the International Boston Trauma conference training, to expand his skill set regarding various trauma approaches, including Integrated Family Systems therapy.
Eric understands that entering into therapy represents a large commitment of both time and resources. He is dedicated to working collaboratively with the client to set constructive goals to achieve the desired changes. Eric is currently accepting clients that are teenagers, adults, and families. He provides in person and telehealth sessions, with availability given below:
Monday (9:00 am- 9:00 pm)
Tuesday (9:00 am - 4:00 pm)
Thursday (6:00 pm - 9:00pm)
Friday (9:00 am - 8:00 pm)
Saturday (4:00 pm - 7:00 pm)
