About Rita
Rita Mahon is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and relationship struggles. She brings 18 years of experience to sessions and treats each person with respect and direct support. Rita believes clients know their own stories and brings a steady, practical approach to therapy.
She listens first, then helps people set goals and try small changes that can make daily life easier. Sessions are straightforward and focused on skills you can use between meetings.
Background and approach
Her work addresses a wide range of concerns including trauma and abuse, depression, addictions, bipolar disorder, compassion fatigue, and ADHD. She also supports people dealing with parenting strain, intimacy and self-esteem problems, career stress, and grief after loss. Rita pays attention to how life events and relationships affect day-to-day functioning.
Rita uses approaches that emphasize values, present-moment choices, and practical coping strategies. She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive-behavioral techniques, client-centered care, and dialectical behavior ideas to help clients manage strong emotions and change unhelpful patterns. People who want a collaborative, down-to-earth therapist will find her style approachable.
She helps clients weigh options and build small routines that support long-term goals. Rita works from Rhode Island and conducts sessions in English.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Rita uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people identify what matters most and take small steps toward those values, even when emotions feel overwhelming. ACT can be useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions because it focuses on action aligned with personal goals.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thinking and test new behaviors. CBT is practical and problem-focused, often helping with mood, anxiety, and coping with daily challenges. Client-centered work informs her manner in session, emphasizing listening and building a respectful, collaborative relationship.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Rita will talk with clients about goals, try methods that fit their needs, and adjust plans together. The process is collaborative, so clients help shape the pace and focus of therapy.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video works well for deeper conversations and exercises that use visual cues, while phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or messaging suits quick check-ins, shorter coaching-style exchanges, or people who prefer not to be on camera. These remote options make it easier to schedule sessions around work, caregiving, or travel.
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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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