Shardae Collins, LICSW, LCSW

Shardae Collins is a licensed clinical social worker who provides telehealth therapy to adults living in Washington. She holds the credentials LICSW and LCSW, clinical social work licenses that reflect her training and professional standing. With six years of experience, she helps people recognize their existing strengths and resilience, even when life has felt overwhelming or unfair.

Her work emphasizes the connection between a person and their environment - exploring lived experience to identify strengths, needs, and hopes for the future. She frames therapy as a collaborative process in which the client has the capacity to heal and the therapist serves as a guide. Sessions are offered with a direct, culturally relevant, trauma-informed, and non-shaming stance so people can express themselves openly in a non-judgmental space.

She specializes in anxiety, depression, life transitions, trauma and PTSD, and offers individual therapy rooted in mindfulness. Shardae acknowledges that starting therapy can feel difficult or scary, and she aims to provide steady support throughout that process. She has regular availability Monday through Thursday from 7AM-2PM PST and Fridays from 7AM-11AM PST for telehealth appointments for Washington residents.

Approaches and Online Care for Trauma and Growth

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns of relating to others. It can help people understand connection, trust, and abandonment issues and work toward more secure ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact; it offers practical strategies to reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression and to change unhelpful patterns. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, is a trauma-focused approach that helps process painful memories and reduce their emotional intensity.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic journey. Shardae collaborates with each person to select methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort level, adjusting strategies over time as the work progresses.

Online therapy via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging offers flexibility for busy schedules and those who prefer remote care. These options make it easier to attend regular sessions, maintain continuity during life transitions, and access licensed professionals from home or other convenient locations.