Rainey Boateng , LCSW

Rainey Boateng is a licensed clinical social worker with twenty years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma, and issues related to self-esteem and depression. Rainey also supports clients navigating career changes, parenting challenges, and concerns common to LGBT people.

She blends practical skills with a warm, client-centered stance. Sessions usually focus on learning coping skills, spotting unhelpful patterns, and trying small changes that add up. Rainey draws on cognitive behavioral tools to address thoughts and behaviors. She also uses acceptance-based strategies to help people live by their values.

Attachment-based ideas are part of her approach when relationship patterns matter. Dialectical behavior strategies are offered for emotion regulation and stress tolerance. This mix lets Rainey adjust to what each person needs rather than using a single method for everyone.

Her background includes work across settings and a range of concerns, from grief and trauma to substance-related problems and caregiving stress. She has experience working with issues that often co-occur, such as depression alongside addiction or chronic stress alongside burnout.

Sessions are offered from her Utah practice and she works with people who prefer English. Rainey notes that therapy can be a step-by-step process and she helps people set realistic goals and track small wins along the way.

How evidence-based approaches translate to online care

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts without getting stuck and identify what matters most to them. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and making life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns through practical exercises and homework. It often helps with anxiety, depression, and stress management. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current connections and communication. It can help when relationship dynamics or caregiving roles cause distress.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Rainey collaborates with each person to pick or blend methods based on their goals and preferences. She adjusts pacing and techniques as someone learns skills and notices what helps most.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and skills practice. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging let people send updates, check in between sessions, or work through brief tools without scheduling a full call. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue progress between meetings.