Shatonya Craddock, LCSW

Shatonya Craddock, LCSW, helps people who are stressed, anxious, or facing major life changes. She focuses on practical steps to ease depression, grief, relationship strain, and intimacy-related concerns. Her approach centers on listening first and building on each person’s strengths.

She draws on 11 years of experience working with trauma and abuse, compassion fatigue, and self-esteem struggles. Sessions emphasize everyday skills people can use between meetings. Shatonya encourages clear goals and small, doable steps toward them.

Her style mixes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) tools with acceptance-based and emotion-focused methods. That means clients learn to notice and shift unhelpful thoughts while also exploring values and emotional patterns. She aims for exercises that feel relevant to each person’s life.

Conversations are guided by curiosity and respect. Shatonya uses Client-Centered Therapy ideas to make space for each person’s story. She helps people untangle communication problems, commitment worries, and attachment concerns.

Shatonya also supports people dealing with caregiver stress, fertility and postpartum challenges, and issues common to veterans and first responders. She pays attention to cultural background and multicultural concerns when they matter to care.

She practices in Texas as a licensed clinical social worker and works in English. To begin, someone fills out a short matching questionnaire and schedules sessions based on the service flow.

How these approaches translate to online care

Shatonya commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in sessions. CBT focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thought patterns and building practical coping skills for anxiety, depression, and relationship stress. ACT emphasizes clarifying personal values and learning how to act on them despite difficult emotions, which helps with grief, low motivation, and chronic stress.

She also brings a Client-Centered approach that prioritizes listening and understanding each person’s story. Choosing the right approach is collaborative: the therapist and client review needs, goals, and preferences and try methods that fit. Over time they adjust tactics based on what helps most.

Online options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit care into a busy life. Video works well for more in-depth work and visual connection. Phone can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are useful for quick updates, skill practice between sessions, and people who prefer written communication.