Shardae Collins
Calm guidance for everyday family challenges
- Credentials
- LICSW, LCSW
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed in
- Washington, Nevada, Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Shardae
Shardae Collins is a licensed clinical social worker who offers telehealth therapy for people living in Washington. She focuses on practical support for stress, anxiety, parenting, grief, relationship struggles, and other life changes. Her tone is direct and nonjudgmental, and she aims to help people notice strengths they already have and use those to move forward.
In sessions she pays close attention to a person's history and current environment. That helps identify patterns around attachment, communication, and coping.
Background and approach
She uses straightforward tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness to build skills for day-to-day life. She also brings techniques from eye movement desensitization and reprocessing for people dealing with trauma. Her style is trauma-informed and culturally aware.
She describes her approach as sensitive and non-shaming, and she centers the client’s own goals in planning work together. Sessions are practical and focused on small, usable changes rather than abstract ideas. Clients can expect a collaborative conversation about what is most important to them, with options for skill-building, emotional processing, or both.
She has six years of clinical experience and holds MA LICSW LICSW125098 and CA LCSW 109957 credentials. Therapy is offered by telehealth formats to people in Washington. Scheduling follows a straightforward process: pick a time that fits, try out the session, and adjust as needed.
The emphasis is on steady progress and using realistic steps that fit family and parenting needs in everyday life.
How these approaches work online
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early bonds shape current relationships and feelings. Online work focuses on patterns in how people connect, feel safe, and communicate, which can help with relationship worries and parenting concerns.Client-Centered Therapy centers on the person's own goals and pace. The therapist listens, reflects, and helps a person make sense of their experience so they can decide what changes to try next. This approach helps when someone needs support naming values and priorities.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact. In telehealth sessions this often means learning clear, step-by-step tools to reduce anxiety or change unhelpful habits in daily life.
Finding the right method is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide whether to use skill practice, emotional processing, or a mix of approaches.
Online therapy offers flexible options like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. That flexibility makes it easier to fit sessions around parenting and family routines. It also allows follow-up support between sessions with brief messages or chat when that helps maintain progress.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
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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
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