About Rebecca
Rebecca Boardman, LISW, LICSW, helps people who are feeling overwhelmed, anxious, or stuck. She speaks plainly and offers steady support for stress, depression, addiction, ADHD, and relationship or career strains. She aims to treat everyone with respect and dignity while focusing on practical steps forward.
Rebecca brings 14 years of clinical experience in West Virginia. She holds a Master of Social Work from West Virginia University and carries licenses as an LISW in Ohio and an LICSW in West Virginia.
Background and approach
Her background includes work with trauma, medical challenges, parenting problems, and mood differences such as bipolar disorder. Her sessions are interactive and client-centered. She uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy alongside attachment-informed ideas to address patterns of thinking and relating.
Sessions include hands-on strategies and activities tailored to each person's needs. Rebecca works in a straightforward, compassionate way. She balances direct feedback with empathy to help people set and reach realistic goals.
She also addresses issues like grief, intimacy, sleep and eating concerns, body image, and caregiver stress. People who choose her typically want clear skills they can use between sessions. She helps clients practice new habits, manage strong emotions, and plan changes that fit everyday life.
The focus is on small steps that build toward a more manageable, meaningful routine.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, often called ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and commit to actions that match their values. It can be useful when life feels confusing or when someone wants clearer direction rather than just feeling less upset. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns through practical exercises and homework. CBT is commonly used for anxiety, depression, ADHD-related organization and focus challenges, and coping with stress.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your goals, try out strategies, and adjust methods based on what helps most. Clients and the therapist decide together which techniques to keep, change, or combine over time.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, skills practice, or when writing feels more comfortable. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or school schedules while still working with a licensed professional.
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- West Virginia, Ohio
- Languages
- English
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