About Rebecca
Rebecca Boardman welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or unsure where to turn. She speaks plainly and listens closely, aiming to help people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma, and other painful issues. Rebecca uses a steady, direct style that many find grounding.
Rebecca is a Licensed Independent Social Worker and holds the LISW and LICSW credentials. She has 14 years of clinical experience and practices in West Virginia. Her work centers on helping people move through depression, anger, grief, self-esteem struggles, and life changes toward clearer choices and better daily functioning.
How Rebecca works
In sessions she blends practical strategies with a person-centered stance. That means she focuses on what matters to each person and helps them try doable steps between meetings. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking and skills from dialectical behavior approaches to manage strong emotions.
Attachment-informed ideas shape how she thinks about relationships and intimacy issues. She also supports people facing ADHD, parenting stress, career concerns, chronic illness, and body image or eating-related struggles. Rebecca adapts interventions to fit each individual's situation and goals.
Her manner is straightforward and compassionate. She encourages commitment to small changes and offers concrete tools to practice. People looking for clear guidance and respectful support may find her approach helpful.
Rebecca lists 17 ways of working on the entry:
- 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
What Rebecca works with
The areas below are the ones Rebecca selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
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
Training and background
| Registers | LISW, LICSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 14 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | West Virginia |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
How Rebecca’s approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify personal values and take committed steps toward them. It focuses on noticing unhelpful thoughts without getting stuck and building meaningful action despite discomfort, which can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches concrete skills to change patterns that cause distress. It is useful for anxiety, mood concerns, sleep problems, and many day-to-day challenges.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) supplies skills for managing intense emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness. Those tools often help when anger, strong mood swings, or relationship stress get in the way of daily life.
Choosing the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will work with each person to identify goals, try techniques, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. That process includes checking in about how methods are working and shifting course when needed.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face discussion and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit into a work break or require less bandwidth. Live chat and messaging suit brief check-ins, homework, or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule consistent care and practice new skills in daily life.
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