About Shardae
Shardae Collins, LICSW, LCSW, focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, grief, and relationship worries. She aims to make therapy straightforward and practical so a worried parent can quickly see how sessions might help. Her style is direct and culturally aware, with an emphasis on building strength and resilience.
She offers telehealth services for people living in Washington. Sessions are offered through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Background and approach
She describes therapy as a place to talk without judgment and to find small, doable changes that make daily life easier. In the room she looks at a person’s history, environment, and current stressors to understand what’s getting in the way. She uses steps that teach coping skills, improve communication, and reduce overwhelm.
Mindfulness techniques are woven into sessions to help calm the body and focus attention. Her work also addresses trauma, attachment concerns, abandonment, and issues tied to adoption and foster care. She draws on approaches that help people process painful memories and build better ways of relating to others.
Shardae has six years of clinical experience and holds an MA LICSW and a CA LCSW. She keeps sessions practical and goal oriented so people can see progress between meetings.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current connections. Online sessions can help identify patterns in how someone bonds and guide practical changes in communication and trust. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. In virtual sessions, CBT offers clear steps to challenge unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors between meetings. EMDR, when used, aims to help process painful memories; it involves guided attention methods to reduce the emotional intensity of traumatic events.Finding the right approach is part of the work. She collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their needs and goals. That decision is revisited as progress unfolds so therapy stays useful and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules and different life demands. Video calls let people use face-to-face interaction when needed. Phone sessions or live chat can work well for shorter check-ins or when bandwidth is limited. Text-based messaging supports frequent check-ins and step-by-step skill practice outside session times. These options make it easier to fit therapy into daily life while focusing on concrete tools and moving toward goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- 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
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