Threadcraft Counseling, LLC

Threadcraft Counseling was established in 1990 by Dr. Hal L. Threadcraft, who later passed the practice on to his son John Caleb Threadcraft. Like his father before him, JC stands by the principle that every human being is fearfully and wonderfully made in the image of God, and for a very distinct purpose, to glorify God and enjoy Him forever. At Threadcraft Counseling, no person is looked at as the problem, instead the problems presented during counseling are viewed as symptoms of a larger problem within, for which there is most often a rather clear solution. With that idea in mind, the concentrated focus on the inner self during counseling incorporates a biblical worldview of wholeness, empirically supported clinical tools and evidence-based interventions. Counseling is much more than simply sitting on a sofa and talking, it is an all-encompassing battle for the heart, the mind and the soul of each client. JC received a B.S. in Psychology from Auburn University in 2000. Following graduation, he traveled overseas where he worked with humanitarian aid workers and missionaries until September 11th, 2002, at which time he enlisted in the U.S. Army. Two years after enlisting he attended Officer Candidate School at Fort Benning, GA, where he was commissioned as an Infantry officer. Qualified as a U.S. Army Airborne Ranger with deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, he left the Army in 2009 and began conducting private security work in support of the U.S. Government abroad. In 2011, he opened his own international logistics company and worked in Africa, Central Asia and the Middle East until 2015 when he returned home to complete a Master of Science degree in Marriage and Family Counseling. In 2019, he went on to complete a Master of Arts degree at Liberty University in Human Services Counseling with a focus on crisis response and trauma. JC is currently licensed by the Alabama Board of Examiners in Counseling (ABEC) as a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and is also a Nationally Certified Counselor (NCC). He is also a Certified Multiple Addiction Therapist (CMAT), which includes certification as a Certified Sexual Addiction Therapist (CSAT) and training in Chemical & Alcohol Dependency as well as Tech addiction, both offered through the International Institute for Trauma and Addiction Professionals (IITAP). He is also trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) through EMDRIA. provides AD/HD testing for clients using the Copeland Symptom Checklist and the computerized Test of Variables of Attention (T.O.V.A. ®), and is a certified facilitator of the PREPARE/ENRICH ® assessment for couples seeking marital and pre-marital counseling. He is also an approved member of the Focus on the Family’s Christian Counselors Referral Network (CCN). During counseling JC integrates a number of theoretical models to include Structural Family Therapy, Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Cognitive Behavioral Family Therapy (CBFT), Narrative Therapy, and Internal Family Systems (IFS). Counseling sessions are also meaningfully informed by attachment theory and the latest findings from interpersonal neurobiology. Today John Caleb lives in Birmingham, AL with his wife and many children.