Kris Shock

Kris Shock, LPC, CMAC, earned her Master’s degree in Mental Health Counseling from Walden University and a Bachelor of Science from Kennesaw State University, where she specialized in Human Services with a focus on case management. Since 2022, she has been certified as a Master Addiction Counselor. Kris’s professional journey spans various roles across the spectrum of substance use and eating disorder treatment, including residential, partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient, and supportive housing settings. Her leadership includes terms as former president of the Georgia Association of Recovery Residences and as the previous Membership Chair of the Georgia Addiction Counselors Association. Furthermore, Kris established and operated recovery residences for individuals with eating disorders for over a decade, contributing to the community that supported her own recovery journey.

In her therapeutic practice, Kris adopts a humanistic approach, anchored in the belief that every individual possesses an innate drive for personal growth within a nurturing environment characterized by empathy, authenticity, and unconditional positive regard. She values the transformative power of understanding the influence of past experiences on present circumstances and views the therapeutic alliance as a crucial space for cultivating such insights. Kris is dedicated to helping clients develop self-awareness through their therapeutic interactions.

Kris has been married to her husband, Steven, for 29 years and is a mother to two children: a married daughter residing in Marietta and a son who is a Naval Nuclear Operator based in San Diego. She and her husband enjoy a pastoral lifestyle on their hobby farm in Cartersville, Georgia, where they care for a menagerie of animals including goats, chickens, pigs, ducks, and a horse named Joe.