About Rita
Rita Dellatore is a licensed clinical social worker with 27 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and addictions. She practices from Florida and works with adults who want concrete skills to feel better and move forward. Rita emphasizes practical change and steady progress over time.
She builds sessions around honesty and respect. Rita aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can speak openly. She listens for strengths and helps clients use them in real life situations.
Background and approach
Rita often focuses on boosting self-esteem and teaching coping skills. That can include ways to manage difficult feelings, improve communication, and handle life transitions. She also supports people dealing with family concerns, eating issues, bipolar disorder, and the effects of past abuse or abandonment.
Her approach draws on therapies that teach new ways of thinking and acting. Sessions can include mindfulness practices, values work, and steps to change unhelpful habits. Rita works with motivated clients who want to try practical strategies and see steady results.
People describe her work as straightforward and caring. She partners with clients to set clear goals and track progress. For those ready to try therapy, Rita offers sessions that focus on skills people can use between meetings.
Therapeutic approaches for online anxiety care
Rita draws on several well-known methods to help people manage anxiety and life stress. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression symptoms. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, ACT, helps clients clarify their values, accept difficult feelings, and commit to actions that matter to them. Client-Centered Therapy centers the persons experience, with the therapist offering empathic listening and support so clients can find their own solutions.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Rita will work with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they map goals, try techniques, and adjust the plan based on what works in sessions and between meetings.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video is useful for full face-to-face work, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging can offer brief check-ins or ongoing support. These options help fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily routines.
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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