Rebecca Woodrow, LCSW
Therapist
Rebecca graduated from the University of Illinois with a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology in 1991. She was part of a special program her junior and senior year called the Mental Health Worker's Program where she completed practicums in mental health and attended classes with a doctoral level psychologist leading for intensive counseling training of over 1000 plus hours. She then obtained her MSW at Southern Illinois University with focus on child welfare and practicums with children and adolescents. She moved to KY and started work as a mental health therapist at the Pennyroyal Mental Health Center, where she worked at the Child and Adolescent Center for 19 yrs. She was licensed independently in 1997 with her LCSW. She became the Designated Child Sexual Abuse Treatment Coordinator in 1997 for the Pennyrile Region and provided therapy, training and consultation regarding child sexual abuse victims until 2009, until the grant ended. She was the therapist at the Pennyrile Children's Adovcacy Center from 2002 when it opened until August 2014. She was an in-school therapist and coordinated the in-school therapy program for the Pennyroyal Mental Health Center. She provided supervision to other clinicians working on their independent license. She became trained in Trauma Focused-Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Parent Child Interactional Therapy when she was a clinical associate at University of Kentucky's Children and Adolescent Trauma Treatment Institute (CATTI) from 2008 to 2010. She just passed her 24th year of providing therapy in July 2019.
She is new to Bowling Green, but not new to helping kids and teens and has been with Alliance Counseling Associates since 2017. Trauma based treatments are her heart and soul, a calling, helping kids thrive after experiencing traumatic events. Anxiety, depression, adjustments to changes and parenting challenges with ADHD and ODD are areas of expertise. She enjoys time with her family, traveling, and listening to live music. Visiting state parks and hiking are fun, too.