Janet Craig, LCSW

Janet Craig is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Illinois with 35 years of social work, advocacy, and counseling experience. Her career has spanned child welfare, hospice care, and school settings, giving her a wide-ranging perspective on human development and the stresses that affect people at different life stages.

She works with clients across the lifespan and specializes in parenting support, particularly for parents of teenagers navigating the challenges of adolescence. As a bereavement counselor, she has supported individuals and families through loss, helping them process difficult emotions and find ways to cope when grief feels isolating.

Janet combines careful listening with compassion and practical guidance, encouraging clients to set their own goals and build the skills they need to pursue them. Her clinical approach draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, client-centered methods, mindfulness, and solution-focused techniques to help people manage stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, self-esteem issues, trauma, and other difficulties.

She values acceptance, respect, and kindness in both life and practice - a principle she summarizes on her bumper sticker that reads "Human kind (be both)." Janet supports clients who are ready to explore what causes them pain and to strengthen their ability to care for themselves through life transitions and challenges.