Shardae Collins , LICSW, LCSW

Shardae Collins is a licensed clinical social worker who provides telehealth therapy to individuals living in Washington. Holding the credentials LICSW and LCSW - both licenses for clinical social workers - she centers care on recognizing each person’s strength and resilience, regardless of the challenges they have faced. Her work explores a client’s environment and lived experience to clarify strengths, needs, and hopes for the future, while supporting clients as they build on their own capacity for healing.

Her therapeutic stance is direct, culturally relevant, trauma informed, and non-shaming. She creates a nonjudgmental space for people to express themselves and applies an approach that is sensitive to identity and context. She specializes in anxiety, depression, life transitions, trauma and PTSD, and offers individual therapy rooted in mindfulness practices.

Shardae frames the therapist’s role as a guide rather than the source of change, acknowledging that therapy can feel difficult or frightening at times. She is committed to supporting clients through healing and self-discovery and works collaboratively to identify goals and strategies that fit each person’s life.

Integrating Attachment, Client-Centered Care, and CBT Online

Shardae draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to explore how early relationships and attachment patterns shape current emotional responses and relationship dynamics - this approach can be helpful for concerns around abandonment, attachment issues, and relationship struggles. She also employs Client-Centered Therapy, which emphasizes empathy, unconditional acceptance, and collaboration so clients feel heard and supported while they identify their own goals and solutions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to help clients identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, often benefiting those managing anxiety, depression, or stress.

Finding the right therapeutic approach is part of the process; Shardae works collaboratively with each person to select or blend methods that fit their needs, goals, and preferences. She tailors interventions based on what emerges in sessions and on the client’s priorities.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility - sessions can occur by video call or phone, and shorter check-ins are possible via live chat or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, maintain continuity through transitions, and access regular support from licensed professionals and therapists without the constraints of travel.