Rainey Boateng, LCSW
Utah · 20 years in practice
Rainey Boateng is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with two decades of clinical experience.
License and registration
- LCSW, Utah
- 6595792-3501 · expires September 2026
- NPI
- 1093110470 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 20
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Rainey
Rainey Boateng is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with two decades of clinical experience. She centers her work on emotional connection and practical skills to help people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, and trauma. Rainey uses straightforward talk and steady support so clients can set clear goals and make steady changes.
She draws on Emotionally-Focused Therapy along with other approaches to help people understand and shift how emotions shape their choices.
Background and approach
Sessions also use cognitive behavioral ideas to change unhelpful thoughts and acceptance-based practices to build values-driven action. Rainey aims to match the approach to each person rather than use a single method for everyone. Over twenty years she has worked in a range of settings and with adults across many life stages.
Her background includes work with mood concerns such as depression and bipolar, addiction and substance concerns, and trauma and abuse. She also helps people cope with caregiving stress, cancer-related challenges, adoption and foster care issues, and career or life transitions. Rainey supports people facing relationship and communication problems, commitment or codependency struggles, parenting strain, and eating concerns.
She offers practical coping tools for anger, ADHD-related difficulties, and compassion fatigue. Her clinical style balances emotional exploration with skills people can use between sessions. She practices from Utah and meets with people in English.
Rainey works with individual adults to address a wide range of concerns, helping each person set realistic steps toward the life they want.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Rainey lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- 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 names
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people recognize and name strong feelings, then use that awareness to change unhelpful patterns. It is often used when emotions keep getting in the way of goals or daily functioning. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy teaches practical steps for living by personal values while accepting difficult thoughts and feelings. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and making steady behavior changes. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape expectations and reactions, and it helps people build new ways of relating and feeling safer in relationships.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Rainey will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. She blends techniques as needed so the plan fits the person rather than forcing a single method.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video lets people use visual cues and deeper emotional work, while phone calls can be easier on bandwidth and fit into a quick break. Live chat and text messaging are helpful for short check-ins, skill practice, or when writing feels more comfortable than speaking. These options make it easier to fit consistent care into a busy life and support steady progress over time.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does Rainey commonly help with?
She helps people with stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, trauma and abuse, and low self-esteem. She also addresses relationship challenges, parenting strain, caregiver stress, and work or life transitions.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Rainey combines Emotionally-Focused Therapy with cognitive and acceptance-based tools. Her sessions balance emotional exploration with concrete skills people can use between meetings.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has twenty years of professional experience working in a variety of clinical settings. That background includes work with mood disorders, addiction, trauma, and caregiving needs.
Where is she licensed and practicing?
Rainey holds an LCSW and practices in Utah. Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the U.S. work with her?
International clients are accepted. Sessions are conducted in English for those scheduling from other countries.
What session formats are available?
She meets with people using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options let clients choose what fits their daily routine.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time. Specific pricing depends on the chosen subscription and region.
How do I begin working with Rainey?
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