Kris Shock, LPC, CMAC

Kennesaw Location

About:

Kris Shock, LPC, CMAC holds a Masters in Mental Health Counseling from Walden University, BS from Kennesaw State University in Human Service with a concentration in case management and has been a Certified Master Addiction Counselor since 2022. Kris has worked within the substance use and eating disorder community at all levels of care; residential, partial hospitalization, intensive out patient and supportive housing. Kris has served as past president of Georgia Association of Recovery Residences and past Membership chair of the Georgia Addiction Counselors Association. Kris also founded and managed sober housing for eating disorders for over ten years as part of her giving back to a community that supported her own recovery experience.

Kris employs a humanistic approach to her counseling, believing that every person has an internal desire for growth given an environment of empathy, congruency and unconditional positive regard. She believes in the power of gaining insight into how past experiences affect the here and now and sees the counseling relationship as the space to allow that insight to develop. Kris desires for clients to gain self-awareness through the therapeutic relationship.

Kris has been married to her husband, Steven for 29 years and has two children; a daughter who is married living in Marietta and a son who serves in the Navy as a NUK in San Diego. Kris and her husband live on a small hobby farm in Cartersville, Georgia surrounded by goats, chickens, pigs, ducks, and a horse named Joe.