Dr. Wanda Boutte, LCSW

California · 20 years in practice

Dr. Wanda Boutte is a licensed clinical social worker with 20 years of experience helping people facing depression, anxiety, grief, relationship strain, and questions around identity.

License and registration

LCSW, California: 29331 · expires November 2026
NPI: 1376980227 · national provider identifier
Years in practice: 20
Languages: English

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About Wanda

Dr. Wanda Boutte is a licensed clinical social worker with 20 years of experience helping people facing depression, anxiety, grief, relationship strain, and questions around identity. She offers calm, direct conversation and practical tools meant to ease daily life.

Her style is warm and straightforward, aimed at parents and adults who need help managing stress, mood, or life transitions. Her sessions focus on understanding emotions and patterns that get in the way of feeling connected.

Background and approach

She draws on Emotionally-Focused Therapy to look at emotional responses in relationships and on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to notice how thoughts influence behavior. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and attachment-based ideas also shape how she helps people build new habits and repair difficult connections. Wanda uses a client-centered approach that treats each person as the expert on their own life.

She listens first, then offers exercises, communication practice, and steps people can try between sessions. These techniques aim to reduce anxiety, manage anger, support recovery from addiction, and improve sleep and self-esteem. She has worked with many concerns including parenting stress, adoption and foster care issues, caregiver strain, codependency, workplace challenges, trauma and abuse, sexual assault, and end-of-life matters.

Her experience also covers attention difficulties, bipolar mood concerns, eating struggles, and compassion fatigue. Based in California, she provides therapy in English and offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Therapy sessions are delivered through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time, with cost varying by location and therapist availability.

Focus areas and approaches

Everything Wanda lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.

LGBT
Family conflicts
Grief
Eating disorders
Depression
Stress, Anxiety
Addictions
Relationship issues
Trauma and abuse
Intimacy-related issues
Sleeping disorders
Parenting issues
Anger management
Self esteem
Career difficulties
Bipolar disorder
Coping with life changes
Coaching
Compassion fatigue
ADHD
Abandonment
Adoption and foster care
Aging and geriatric issues
Blended family issues
Caregiver issues and stress
Codependency
Commitment issues
Communication problems
Control issues
Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
First responder issues
Hospice and end-of-life counseling
Jealousy
Prejudice and discrimination
Sexual assault and abuse
Smoking / vaping cessation
Young adult issues

Approaches Wanda names

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Online support

Approaches that guide online sessions and how they help

Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) focuses on emotions in close relationships and helps people notice and change patterns that create distance or conflict. It is often used when relationship stress or intense emotional reactions make connection feel difficult.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) emphasizes noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then taking actions that match personal values. ACT can help with anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes by teaching flexible ways to respond to hard feelings.

Attachment-based ideas guide work on how early relationship patterns affect current attachments and communication. This perspective helps when people struggle with trust, abandonment fears, or repeating unhealthy relationship habits.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to goals and try methods that fit a person’s needs, adjusting course as therapy progresses. Clients are invited to set priorities and to try practical exercises between sessions to test what helps.

Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation when bandwidth and surroundings permit. Phone sessions can work well when a quieter line or less bandwidth is needed. Live chat and messaging are useful for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or when writing out thoughts feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around school, work, or caregiving commitments.

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Questions people ask

What kinds of concerns does she help with?

She works with a wide range of issues including depression, anxiety, grief, addictions, relationship and intimacy-related issues, parenting strain, and trauma and abuse.

What is her therapeutic style?

Her style is client-centered and collaborative, combining emotionally focused conversations with practical exercises from CBT and ACT to change patterns and cope better day to day.

How much experience does she have?

She has 20 years of clinical experience supporting people through mood concerns, loss, addiction recovery, communication problems, and life transitions.

Where is she based and licensed?

She practices in California and holds the credential LCSW, which stands for Licensed Clinical Social Worker.

Which languages are supported?

Sessions are offered in English.

What session formats are available?

She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different preferences and schedules.

How is cost handled?

Cost varies by location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

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