About Shelly
Shelly Daniel is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on helping people move through stress and anxiety toward clearer thinking and steadier days. She brings a friendly, practical style and aims to help each person build useful coping skills and stronger relationships. Shelly uses a strength-focused approach that emphasizes emotion regulation and problem-solving.
She helps people notice patterns that keep them stuck and then tries small, doable changes to shift those patterns.
Background and approach
Sessions often include skills practice and step-by-step plans you can try between meetings. Her work addresses a wide range of concerns including grief, depression, addictions, relationship strain, parenting stress, and life transitions. She also supports people working through issues like abandonment, attachment concerns, caregiving stress, and family of origin problems.
Anxiety is a common focus and she helps people manage worry and overwhelm with concrete tools. With ten years of experience as a licensed clinical social worker - LCSW - Shelly pairs empathy with practical strategies. She aims to meet people where they are and to pace work based on each person’s needs.
Many clients find the combination of mindfulness, behavioral techniques, and solution-focused steps helpful. Shelly invites people who are ready to try new ways of thinking and behaving to take the next step. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences.
How client-centered and skills-based therapy works online
Shelly draws on client-centered methods that focus on listening and responding to each person’s needs. This approach helps people feel heard and supported while they identify goals and decide what changes matter most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is used to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and test small behavior changes that reduce anxiety and lift mood.Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose techniques that match their goals, preferences, and day-to-day life. That may mean mixing listening-based work with CBT skills or adding mindfulness practices to manage strong emotions.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people work face-to-face without travel, phone sessions can fit into a lunch break or be easier when bandwidth is low, and live chat or text-based messaging supports quick check-ins or ongoing brief support. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting it into a busy schedule.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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