About Shan
Shan Croft is a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in Georgia with nine years of clinical experience. She guides people facing common life struggles like anxiety, depression, relationship problems, and stress.
Background and approach
Shan aims to create a direct and supportive space where practical steps replace stuck routines. She uses clear, goal-oriented conversations to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try small changes.
Sessions are collaborative - the client and Shan decide what matters most and what to try next. That may mean reframing a belief, practicing new ways to speak with a partner, or planning manageable steps toward a career goal.
Her approach blends client-centered care with cognitive behavioral techniques, narrative work, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused ideas. Shan explains options in plain language and adapts the conversation to each person’s needs.
She often balances talking through an issue with short, focused exercises to test new ways of coping. Session lengths are flexible, with typical options around 30 or 45 minutes.
Shan notes that a shorter check-in can work well when schedules are tight. She respects cultural differences and pays attention to how identity and life experience shape relationships and healing.
Shan encourages people to begin when they feel ready and offers steady support through change. She focuses on small, achievable shifts that add up over time.
How Shan's approaches work online
Shan commonly uses client-centered work and cognitive behavioral therapy to guide online sessions. Client-centered work focuses on listening closely, reflecting what the person says, and helping them find their own next steps; it is useful when someone needs understanding and a clear space to sort thoughts. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect, and tries small experiments to change unhelpful patterns; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress.She also draws on motivational interviewing to help people resolve mixed feelings and find internal motivation for change. Shan aims to choose approaches together with each person, matching techniques to goals and preferences in a collaborative way rather than following one fixed method.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, which makes it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow fuller conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for quick check-ins, and text messaging supports brief reflections between meetings. These options give flexibility for scheduling, shorter or longer contacts, and different ways to practice new skills.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English