About Rebecca
Rebecca Boardman is a Licensed Independent Social Worker with 14 years of clinical experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, addiction, grief, or changes in relationships. Her approach is direct but caring, and she aims to treat each person with respect and dignity.
Rebecca uses practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice unhelpful thinking and try different behaviors. She also draws on acceptance and commitment ideas to help clients build a life that reflects their values.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and shaped around what each person needs. Her background includes a master’s degree in social work from West Virginia University. Rebecca has worked with people facing trauma, bipolar symptoms, ADHD, parenting strain, and chronic health or pain issues.
She has experience supporting concerns around intimacy, body image, and identity, including LGBT issues. Rebecca describes her style as interactive and client-centered. She pairs talking with hands-on techniques and activities when helpful.
She aims to be straightforward while staying empathetic to what someone is going through. Many clients come for short-term skill building and coping strategies. Others work on longer-term changes like managing mood, reducing avoidant behavior, or improving communication.
Rebecca helps clients set realistic steps and track progress over time.
How Rebecca’s approaches translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck and then choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, low mood, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like worry, low mood, and sleep problems. It often uses practical exercises between sessions.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Rebecca will work with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. She adjusts techniques over time based on what is helping and what isn’t, so the work evolves with the client’s needs.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face interaction for skills practice and emotional work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, quick skill reminders, or fitting therapy into a busy schedule. These options make it simpler to keep regular contact and build momentum toward change.
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What this therapist works with
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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