Anna Craig, Ph.D.

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• ADHD Coaching: ADHD coaching is therapy-adjacent but focused on support in navigating school/work as well as home organization and task completion. Coaching sessions can be similar to therapy sessions, lasting 50 minutes once a week or two, or can be more frequent and shorter, to fit the needs of the client (e.g., staying accountable with work/school tasks and home organization). I have extensive experience providing ADHD coaching interventions for college and graduate students as well as for those in professional fields.

  • Compared to coaching, therapy for ADHD is focused more on the emotional components of the lived experience of ADHD such as self-esteem, interpersonal functioning and comorbid social anxiety, and emotion regulation. I strive to help people feel in charge or in control of their daily life, and to feel self-aware and understand how their ADHD impacts how they function and relate to others. I often work in collaboration with prescribers, and I educate but never push clients on the benefits and drawbacks of incorporating medication into their treatment, on top of the behavioral interventions we are implementing.

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• ADHD Assessment: I offer a comprehensive battery of tests for purposes such as documentation of ADHD diagnosis for academic accommodations in school, accommodations on standardized tests and licensing exams like the SAT, BAR, and DAT. An important component of my assessment report is the recommendations section, which I tailor to each client so that they can leave feeling empowered with options for next steps. 

  • My prior experience including teaching and supervising ADHD assessments. I have also provided educational presentations for professionals on ADHD and ADHD-specific therapeutic and coaching interventions.

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• Eating Disorders: I have experience with treating bulimia and anorexia, binge eating, and atypical and sub-clinical eating disorders. I utilize principles of Health At Every Size (HAES) and Intuitive Eating (IE) in my work with clients with disordered eating and body image disturbances. As someone with an eating disorder history and recovery experience myself, I am passionate about and deeply understanding of the unique challenges as well as what tends to work well in pursuing a life free from an ED.​

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• Couples: I offer couples therapy for general relationship issues (e.g., communication, intimacy) as well as to address ADHD and ASD specific issues within the context of the relationship. My style as a couples therapist is direct, active, and focuses both on emotion and skills development (e.g., communication, co-regulation). Healing and change will come from open and thorough communication with each other, which is my job to facilitate, and therefore I require both partners to be present in sessions and do not provide individual sessions outside of couples sessions.

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• Trauma: I have extensive experience working with acute and complex, past and present, trauma. I’ve supported clients in processing and healing from histories of ongoing/repeated abuse and/or neglect from parents (i.e., attachment-related wounds that lead to issues in adult relationships), abuse in romantic relationships, and one-time life events such as car accidents or single incidents of assault. I utilize trauma-focused CBT to help clients process their fragmented memories and emotions in order to move forward with a clearer mind and more grounded sense of self. I use IFS to help mend their relationship with themselves (e.g., alleviate shame), depending on the needs/fit of the client.

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