About Shelly
Shelly Daniel uses a client-centered approach to help people cope with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship struggles. She brings ten years of experience as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, and a Clinical Social Worker, CSW, to each session. Her style is direct but warm, focused on practical steps that fit day-to-day life.
Shelly helps people learn skills for clearer thinking and calmer responses. She emphasizes emotion regulation, healthy coping, and building better communication.
How Shelly works
Sessions focus on small, practical changes that add up over time rather than on abstract theories. She works with a wide range of concerns including addictions, parenting challenges, career stress, bipolar disorder, trauma and abuse, and issues related to identity and relationships. Additional focus areas include abandonment, attachment issues, blended family stress, caregiving strain, codependency, and forgiveness.
Shelly aims to identify strengths and realistic next steps during early sessions. Her approach mixes client-centered listening with cognitive behavioral tools and mindfulness practices. She also draws on dialectical behavior techniques and the Gottman Method to address relationship patterns when relevant.
The goal is to help people build practical skills and make steady progress toward clearer goals. Sessions are offered in English and are provided to people in Georgia. Shelly seeks collaboration - she asks questions, sets small goals, and checks in on what is or is not working.
She frames therapy as a partnership where effort and experimentation help produce change.
Shelly lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Shelly works with
The areas below are the ones Shelly selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Registers | LCSW, CSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Georgia |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and understanding the person first. The therapist follows the client's lead, reflects concerns back, and helps set goals that feel meaningful. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and trying different behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems because it offers clear practice exercises.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what feels manageable. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as needed so progress is practical and realistic.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions are good when visual cues help the conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth or hands-free time is needed, and chat or messaging fits quick check-ins or ongoing support between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or other obligations while still using the therapeutic approaches described above.
Start online instead of waiting
Our partner service asks a few questions about what you are looking for and matches you with a therapist for sessions from home.
Book with ShellyWe will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you.
Common questions
What concerns does she help with?
What is her therapeutic style?
How much experience does the therapist have?
What credentials and region should I know about?
Which languages and international requests are supported?
What session formats are available?
How does payment and cost work?
How do I begin working together?
A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
We will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you. Entries are not assessed or endorsed by this directory.
Other entries for stress, anxiety
Supportive LCSW helping people build strength and clarity
Practical, trauma-aware therapy for everyday life
Practical, relational therapy for life transitions