Shardae Collins , LICSW, LCSW

Shardae Collins is a licensed clinical social worker who offers telehealth therapy to adults living in Washington. She focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, trauma, and issues related to self-esteem and identity. Her style is direct and compassionate, and she aims to help clients find practical steps forward.

She works from the belief that people have inner strength and resilience. Sessions look at a person’s life and environment to find what helps and what gets in the way. The tone is culturally aware, trauma-informed, and non-shaming. Mindfulness practices are often included to help with grounding and present-moment coping.

Shardae uses a mix of approaches tailored to each person. That can include attachment-focused ideas to improve how someone connects with others, cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking, and skills from dialectical behavior therapy to manage intense emotions. She also brings EMDR-informed methods for people coping with traumatic memories.

Her work addresses a wide range of concerns such as grief, parenting stress, compassion fatigue, career stress, and issues like abandonment or attachment wounds. She also supports people navigating LGBT identity, adoption and foster care histories, and health-related challenges such as living with HIV/AIDS.

Sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Shardae has six years of clinical experience and holds MA LICSW and CA LCSW credentials.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on understanding patterns of connection and trust. In telehealth sessions this approach helps people notice how early relationships shape current bonds and reactions, and it guides work to build healthier ways of relating to others. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. In online visits CBT is used to identify unhelpful thinking, practice different responses, and build concrete coping strategies for anxiety, depression, and stress.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, past experiences, and what feels most useful. That conversation shapes whether sessions emphasize attachment ideas, CBT skills, or mindfulness and emotion-regulation techniques, and it is a collaborative process throughout care.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work when internet bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it possible to receive support between sessions or to communicate in brief moments during a busy day. These options help therapy fit into work, caregiving, and daily life while keeping the focus on meaningful progress.