Shardae Collins , LICSW, LCSW

Shardae Collins is a licensed clinical social worker who provides telehealth therapy to individuals living in Washington. She brings a trauma-informed, culturally relevant, and non-shaming approach to care, helping people identify their resilience and inner strengths even when life feels overwhelming. Shardae centers each session on the client’s lived experience and environment to better understand current needs, relationship patterns, and hopes for the future. She frames therapy as a collaborative journey in which clients hold the power to heal and the therapist serves as a guide and partner.

Her style is direct yet compassionate, attentive to cultural context and sensitive to trauma. Shardae offers individual therapy rooted in mindfulness, and she commonly works with anxiety, depression, life transitions, and trauma or PTSD. Additional areas of focus include relationship and attachment concerns, parenting and family challenges, grief, and struggles with self-esteem or career stress.

She holds the credentials LICSW and LCSW - LICSW means Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker and LCSW means Licensed Clinical Social Worker - and she maintains a strengths-based, practical approach to treatment. Therapy can feel difficult or scary, and Shardae aims to provide a calm, non-judgmental space to explore change. She has availability Monday through Thursday from 7:00 AM to 2:00 PM PST and Fridays from 7:00 AM to 11:00 AM PST.

Approaches That Guide Online Care

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships and bonding influence current patterns in relationships and emotional regulation. This approach helps people explore attachment wounds, rebuild trust, and create healthier connection strategies in close relationships.

Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes respect for the individual's perspective and personal growth. It involves listening with empathy, validating experience, and helping clients discover their own solutions to challenges such as low self-esteem, life transitions, or relationship conflicts.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) offers practical tools to identify and shift unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress management by teaching concrete skills for coping and problem solving.

Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Shardae collaborates with each person to determine which methods best match their needs, goals, and preferences, and adapts strategies over time as progress unfolds.

Online therapy with licensed professionals provides flexible ways to engage in treatment, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, maintain continuity of care during life changes, and access support from home or other convenient locations.