Works with
How Rainey works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- Utah
- Years in practice
- 20
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Rainey
Rainey Boateng is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with two decades of experience helping people manage stress, anger, anxiety, and addiction. She focuses on practical steps a person can use right away. Her style is straightforward and centered on what the individual wants to accomplish.
Over 20 years Rainey has worked in a range of care settings, gaining experience with trauma, mood disorders, and grief. She draws on several evidence-informed approaches to match techniques to a person’s needs.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize skills that address daily challenges and crisis moments alike. Rainey uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. She also integrates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to explore values and build purposeful action, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills for emotional regulation and distress tolerance.
Her practice pays attention to relationship struggles, self-esteem concerns, parenting strain, and the stress that follows life changes. She also supports people dealing with medical challenges, caregiving burdens, and substance-related problems. Anger management is included among her focus areas and is addressed with concrete tools and practice.
People who work with Rainey can expect an approachable therapist who listens, explains options clearly, and teaches concrete coping strategies. She offers sessions in English and accepts international clients. Treatment plans are tailored to the goals the person brings to therapy.
What Rainey works with
Everything Rainey lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Rainey's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Depression
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Eating disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Rainey lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Using proven approaches online to manage strong emotions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters to a person and taking small, value-based steps. It helps when someone feels stuck by teaching ways to move toward meaningful goals despite hard thoughts or feelings.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors that keep problems going. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and patterns that feed anger and stress.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers specific skills for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and strengthening interpersonal effectiveness. Those skills are practical for people working on anger regulation and crisis moments.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to choose techniques that fit the person's goals, needs, and preferences. Sessions often blend methods so that skills training, values work, and thinking-pattern changes reinforce one another.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people read facial cues and practice skills in real time. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits better into a work break. Chat and messaging support quick skill reminders, journaling, or ongoing reflections between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while balancing daily life.
Questions people ask about Rainey
What concerns does Rainey commonly help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, anger, addiction, trauma, depression, and related issues like self-esteem and relationship problems.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her approach is practical and skills-focused, combining talk with exercises to change thinking, manage emotions, and build better habits.
How much clinical experience does she have?
Rainey has 20 years of professional experience as a social worker and licensed clinician in multiple care settings.
What credentials and location are listed?
She holds a Utah LCSW and practices from Utah.
Which languages and international options are available?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
In what formats are sessions offered?
Appointments can take place via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How is cost handled for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; services use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the first steps to begin working together?
Click the Start Therapy button, fill out a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.