Shan Croft, LMFT

Shan Croft is a licensed marriage and family therapist in Georgia with nine years of clinical work. She focuses on common life struggles like depression, anxiety, self-esteem, relationship concerns, and career stress. Shan aims to make therapy a practical part of daily life and offers straightforward, respectful support.

Her approach is collaborative and direct. She uses conversations to help people notice and reframe thoughts, feelings, and patterns that get in the way. Sessions often focus on clear steps people can try between meetings and on breaking larger problems into manageable pieces.

Shan blends several approaches to match each person's needs. She draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to track thoughts and behaviors, solution-focused strategies to set short-term goals, motivational interviewing to explore ambivalence, and narrative therapy to look at the stories people tell about themselves. She adapts language and exercises to each situation rather than following a single strict method.

She works with relationship concerns including intimacy issues, jealousy, infidelity, and communication problems, and also addresses trauma, grief, addiction, and stress-related difficulties. Shan pays attention to cultural context, prejudice, and the effects of discrimination when relevant to the work.

If someone wants to begin, the process starts with a short intake and scheduling. Shan offers 30-minute or 45-minute session blocks and is willing to shorten a meeting when that better fits a person's day.

How her approaches translate to online care

Shan uses client-centered work to focus on each person's experience and priorities, listening first and shaping conversations around what matters most. This helps with relationship issues, self-esteem, and life transitions by keeping goals personal and relevant.

She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to map thoughts and actions and to set small experiments between sessions. That approach is useful for anxiety, depression, and patterns like jealousy because it breaks problems into concrete steps people can try and report back on.

Finding the best approach is a shared process. Shan discusses options with each person and adjusts methods based on goals, comfort, and progress. She treats the first few meetings as a chance to see what fits and to plan practical next steps together.

If you plan to use online therapy, confirm which session options are currently offered before booking. The therapist notes 30-minute and 45-minute session blocks on her calendar and is open to shorter meetings when that fits a schedule. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions around work, reduce travel time, and allow brief check-ins on busy days; it can also let people use quieter surroundings or switch to audio-only when video is difficult to manage.