Rainey Boateng, LCSW

Rainey Boateng is a licensed clinical social worker with twenty years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, and trauma. She brings a straightforward, calm approach to sessions and focuses on practical steps clients can use between meetings.

Her work centers on cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and shift behaviors. She also uses acceptance and commitment ideas to help people clarify their values and build a life that matters to them. Attachment-based perspectives inform how she looks at relationship patterns and emotional connection.

Rainey has worked in a range of settings over two decades. That background gives her experience with medical issues, caregiving stress, and complex life changes. She is familiar with concerns such as depression, bipolar symptoms, grief after cancer, and the stress that accompanies adoption and blended family situations.

Sessions are approachable and down-to-earth. She talks with people about concrete goals, short-term strategies, and small changes that add up. She also uses skills from dialectical behavior therapy when emotion regulation or strong reactions get in the way.

Rainey is based in Utah and holds a Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential, LCSW. She offers care in English and works with people from many backgrounds, including those navigating LGBT issues, parenting strain, or career stress. The focus is on clear steps and steady progress.

Approaches that translate well to online care

Rainey uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and test small behavior changes. CBT works well for anxiety, depression, stress, and many everyday challenges by breaking problems into manageable steps. She also draws on acceptance and commitment therapy, which focuses on noticing internal experience while choosing actions that align with personal values; this approach can help with motivation, coping with chronic difficulties, and finding direction.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Rainey collaborates with each person to select techniques that fit their needs, goals, and preferences. She often blends methods so sessions feel practical and tailored rather than rigid, and she checks in regularly to ensure the plan is working.

Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is useful for a fuller conversation and teaching skills that use visual tools. Phone sessions can be a good shorter option or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging let people check in between sessions or use brief, focused support when schedules are tight. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting it into everyday life.