About Rita
Rita Mahon is a licensed independent clinical social worker who helps people facing anxiety, stress, grief, and relationship struggles. She writes plainly and listens closely to each person's concerns. Rita focuses on practical steps people can use right away to feel steadier and more in control.
She draws on a mix of proven approaches to tailor work to each person. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy offers tools to change unhelpful thinking and behavior.
Background and approach
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify values and take small committed steps toward them. Client-centered work makes space for people to talk and be heard without judgment. Rita has worked in the field for 18 years in Rhode Island as a LICSW - Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker.
That experience includes supporting people through trauma and abuse, addiction, bipolar disorder, and parenting strain. She also addresses issues such as self-esteem, career stress, caregiving burden, and challenges tied to identity and intimacy. Sessions typically focus on concrete skills, coping strategies, and realistic goals.
Rita aims to help people manage symptoms while also attending to deeper life questions and values. She encourages clients to notice small gains and build on them. Rita takes a collaborative approach to planning work.
She and each client decide together which techniques to try and how to pace progress. The goal is clearer thinking, steadier emotions, and a better sense of what matters next.
How specific approaches translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then take small, values-driven steps forward. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and times of major life change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and gives concrete exercises to shift patterns that keep problems going. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and coping skills. Client-Centered Therapy centers on listening, reflection, and empathy so people feel heard while deciding what matters next.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Rita treats the choice as a collaboration and adjusts methods to fit a person's goals and preferences. Together they try techniques, notice what helps, and change course when needed to stay practical and relevant.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy accessible and flexible. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation. Phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Messaging and live chat suit brief updates, questions between sessions, or people who prefer typing. These options let therapy fit around work, caregiving, and busy days while maintaining a consistent path forward.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- 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
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Rhode Island
- Languages
- English
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