- Strengths focused
- Skill building
- Collaborative care
About Shelly
Shelly Daniel, LCSW, CSW, offers a practical, strengths-based approach to counseling. She focuses on helping people build useful thinking, manage emotions, and improve relationships. Shelly aims to help clients move from feeling stuck to functioning well by teaching skills for coping and problem solving.
Shelly brings ten years of experience as a licensed clinical social worker in Georgia. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addiction concerns, and life transitions. She also supports those dealing with relationship struggles, parenting stress, LGBT issues, and challenges related to trauma and abuse.
Her work emphasizes emotion regulation, solution-building, and interpersonal effectiveness. Shelly uses practical strategies to address self-esteem, anger, career concerns, and bipolar symptoms. She pays attention to attachment and family of origin patterns that affect day-to-day life.
Clients who are ready to try new ways of thinking and behaving tend to be a good fit for her collaborative style. Shelly seeks to identify strengths, limits, and opportunities, then build clear steps toward goals. She describes the process as teamwork with steady guidance and empathy.
In addition to common concerns, Shelly lists focused areas such as abandonment, caregiving stress, blended family issues, and coping with natural or human-caused disaster. She aims to help people find practical tools to manage those pressures and regain a sense of direction.
How therapeutic approaches shape online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to what matters most to the person. It helps people feel heard while they explore goals and make decisions about change.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts affect feelings and actions. It teaches simple exercises to change unhelpful thinking and build new behaviors for anxiety, depression, and stress.
Finding the right approach is part of the process and will be worked out together. The therapist collaborates with each person to match methods to their goals, needs, and preferences rather than prescribing a fixed path.
If you are considering online therapy, check the session options before booking since formats are not specified in the biography. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day, reduce travel time, and allow for shorter check-ins when schedules are tight. It also lets people continue care during life changes or after a disaster, when maintaining routines can be hard.
Talk with the therapist about what will work best for you and your schedule so you can plan sessions that fit into everyday life.
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Experience
10+ years
Credentials
Georgia
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of problems does this therapist address?
Shelly works with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, relationship difficulties, and life changes. She also lists areas like parenting strain, LGBT concerns, trauma and coping with natural or human-caused disaster.
What is Shelly's therapeutic style like?
Her approach is strengths-focused and practical. She teaches emotion regulation, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills while collaborating with clients on clear next steps.
How much experience does she have?
Shelly has ten years of experience working as a clinician. That background informs her practical, skill-based work with everyday concerns and life transitions.
What credentials and region are listed for this clinician?
She is listed as LCSW and CSW and practices in Georgia. Those credentials are presented as provided in the profile.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are available?
The biography does not specify session formats. Confirm current session options with the therapist before booking to know whether online or in-person visits are offered.
How are fees and payments handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability, and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time. Exact fees depend on the matching and scheduling process.
What is the first step to begin working together?
Choose the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule according to the therapist's availability.