About Shatonya
Shatonya Craddock is a licensed clinical social worker with 11 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are dealing with anxiety, stress, relationship strain, trauma, low self-esteem, and life transitions. She aims to meet people where they are and help them take small, useful steps forward.
Her approach begins with listening. She treats each person as the expert on their own life and builds on existing strengths. Sessions are practical and down-to-earth, with clear goals and simple tools you can use between meetings.
Background and approach
Craddock draws from several evidence-based methods to tailor work to each person's needs. She uses skills-based methods to manage overwhelming feelings, and relational approaches to repair connection and communication. Therapy can include learning concrete coping strategies, practicing new ways to handle conflict, and making space for difficult emotions.
She has helped people cope with grief, compassion fatigue, postpartum depression, and issues related to culture and identity. First responders, veterans, and caregivers are among the additional focus areas she addresses. Her Texas practice reflects a range of life challenges rather than a single pathway to change.
Beginning therapy with her involves a straightforward matching and scheduling process. People choose a plan, answer a short questionnaire, and set sessions that fit their timing. The work emphasizes steady progress, practical skills, and clearer communication in daily life.
Approaches you can use in online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then committing to actions that match your values. ACT can help with anxiety, avoidance, and making decisions during life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with stress. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) concentrates on emotional experience and connection; it can support people working through intimacy concerns and relationship pain.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist works collaboratively to choose methods that fit the person's goals and preferences. Together they try tools, notice what helps, and adjust the plan as progress happens.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which makes scheduling more flexible. Video calls are good for longer conversations and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for quick check-ins, and messaging or chat can support brief updates or homework between meetings. These options let people fit therapy into busy days and keep momentum when life is unpredictable.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Mississippi, New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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