About Shardae
Shardae Collins is a licensed social worker who offers telehealth therapy to adults living in Washington. She focuses on helping people facing anxiety, depression, trauma, and major life changes. Her style is straightforward and compassionate, aimed at helping people notice their strengths and take steps forward.
She treats therapy as a team effort. Sessions look at a person’s environment and life story to find what’s working and what needs support.
Background and approach
She uses mindfulness and practical skills to manage stress, overwhelming emotions, and relationship problems. Her approach is culturally aware and trauma informed while avoiding blame or shame. She helps clients work through grief, abandonment, adoption or foster care concerns, caregiver stress, and issues around identity such as LGBT-related stress.
She also supports people dealing with anger, loneliness, guilt, and forgiveness. Shardae draws on evidence-based methods like cognitive behavioral techniques and attachment-focused ideas to build more stable patterns in relationships and daily life. For clients who have experienced trauma, she may integrate EMDR concepts alongside mindful breathing and grounding skills to reduce distress.
She brings six years of clinical experience and holds the LICSW credential (MA LICSW LICSW125098) and a California LCSW license (CA LCSW 109957). Sessions are offered in English and delivered through video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to availability.
How evidence-based approaches work online
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in close relationships and helps people build more stable connections by identifying old patterns and practicing new ways of interacting. It can be useful for people dealing with abandonment, attachment issues, or repeated relationship problems.Client-Centered Therapy centers on listening and empathy to help people clarify their goals and values. The therapist offers acceptance and reflection so clients can find their own answers and move toward change at their own pace.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes because it gives concrete tools to test new ways of thinking.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then suggest methods to try. This is a collaborative process and adjustments are made based on what helps most.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is helpful for longer therapy sessions and seeing nonverbal cues. Phone work can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow brief updates, coaching, or check-ins between longer sessions. These options make scheduling easier and help therapy fit into busy lives.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Washington, Nevada, Massachusetts, California
- Languages
- English