Craig Limbert
Experienced counsellor for complex needs
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About Craig
Craig Limbert welcomes people who are anxious, stressed, grieving, or carrying the weight of past trauma. He is a BACP counsellor with 30 years working in mental health in the United Kingdom. Craig aims to offer a calm space for someone who wants to talk, make sense of their feelings, and find practical ways forward.
He mixes person-centred ways of working with psychodynamic ideas and elements of Gestalt. That means sessions focus on what matters to the person now, while also looking at how earlier life experiences shape current reactions.
Background and approach
Conversations are grounded and straightforward, with attention to personal goals and how to reach them. Craig has worked across the NHS, local social care, and voluntary services. His roles have included crisis support, group facilitation, advocacy for people detained under mental health law, care coordination, and mental health social work.
These roles have involved supporting people with severe depression, anxiety, trauma, and complex needs. He has experience supporting people from varied cultural and spiritual backgrounds and those who identify as LGBTQIA+. He also has a history of supervising others and has recent training in clinical supervision.
In sessions Craig will listen, reflect, and help identify small steps that make life easier. He focuses on understanding what the person sees as their priority and works together to create a simple plan to address it.
At a glance
- Years practising
- 30
- Registered with
- BACP
- Registration number
- 390994
- Languages
- English
- Approaches include
- Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- How sessions happen
- Online, by video, phone or messages
Details are as listed on Craig's public professional profile. You can check any number with the professional body.
What Craig works with
Everything Craig lists, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Grief
- Self esteem
- 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 natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- 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-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Craig lists
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each counsellor names and does not check training records.
How Craig works online
He also uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions connect. CBT offers practical techniques to reduce anxiety and manage unhelpful thinking patterns, which can be worked on step by step in sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss options and adapt methods to the person’s needs, goals and preferences, so decisions are collaborative rather than fixed. The plan can change as progress is made.
If you are considering online therapy, check the available session options before booking as the biography does not list formats. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into everyday life, save travel time, and allow a shorter check-in when needed. Talk with the therapist about practical arrangements and how sessions might best fit into your routine.
Questions and answers
What issues does Craig commonly help with?
He works with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship concerns, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, and life changes. There are also specialist interests such as abandonment, adoption and foster care, and chronic illness.
How would he describe his therapeutic style?
The approach blends person-centred listening with psychodynamic and Gestalt influences. Sessions focus on what matters now while also looking at earlier life patterns that affect current feelings.
What is his background and experience?
He has 30 years of experience across NHS, social care and voluntary services, including crisis support, group facilitation, advocacy work, care coordination and mental health social work.
Which professional credential does he hold?
He is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, shown as BACP in his profile. He also holds an advanced diploma in counselling and other related qualifications.
Does he offer sessions in other languages or to international clients?
Sessions are offered in English. He is not currently accepting international clients.
What session formats are available?
The biography does not specify session formats. Please confirm the current session options before booking.
How much do sessions cost?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin if I want to work together?
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