About Shelly
Shelly Daniel is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on helping people make practical changes in their lives. She brings ten years of experience and a steady, encouraging presence to sessions. She aims to help clients find clearer thinking, better coping, and healthier relationships.
Shelly centers her work on building skills that translate to everyday life. She helps people learn emotion regulation, stress management, and problem-solving strategies. She also supports work on relationship patterns and communication skills.
Background and approach
Many people come to her feeling stuck, worried, or overwhelmed. She helps them identify strengths and small steps they can take. The emphasis is on usable tools rather than long lectures.
Shelly uses a collaborative style. She invites clients to try new ways of thinking and behaving and adjusts plans as needed. Her approach combines practical skill-building with mindful awareness.
Shelly holds a Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential, LCSW, and a CSW. She practices in Georgia and speaks English. Her background includes ten years of direct practice helping people cope with stress, anxiety, grief, depression, relationship struggles, and other life changes.
How specific approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, acceptance, and following the client's lead. Online sessions give space for clients to speak about what matters most and for the therapist to reflect back empathy and understanding. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. In online work CBT can include setting small exercises between sessions and reviewing progress together.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has worked or not worked in the past. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as changes occur.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and teaching skills. Phone sessions can fit a short break at work or be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging support quick check-ins, homework review, or ongoing encouragement between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep practicing the skills learned in sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- 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