About Rita
Rita Ham is a Licensed Mental Health Practitioner with four decades of clinical experience in Nebraska. She began her career in community substance use treatment and continued into outpatient services, bringing long-term commitment to people facing mental health and addiction challenges. Her work is straightforward and practical.
She helps people build life skills and learn tools to manage symptoms. Sessions focus on goals the person identifies and on steps to reach them.
Background and approach
Rita uses a mix of approaches drawn from cognitive behavioral ideas, acceptance and commitment methods, attachment-informed work, and client-centered care. She also draws from dialectical behavior strategies and motivational interview techniques when helpful. These methods are applied to problems such as anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship strain, and substance use concerns.
Her style is warm and interactive. She aims to form a trusting relationship that allows honesty and gentle challenge. When clients agree, she sometimes includes members of their support system to help progress.
Rita emphasizes respect, compassion, and sensitivity while reducing stigma around seeking help. She encourages people ready to move from where they are now toward where they want to be to reach out and begin the process.
Online approaches that meet you where you are
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without letting them dictate life choices. It focuses on identifying values and taking committed steps toward them, which can help with anxiety and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact. It teaches practical skills to challenge unhelpful thinking and change behaviors, often useful for anxiety, depression, and mood concerns.
Attachment-Based ideas help examine how early relationship patterns affect current trust and communication. This can be helpful for people dealing with relationship strain, codependency, or issues rooted in past trauma.
Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and needs, and then tailor methods from these approaches to fit the situation. Clients and the therapist decide together what feels most useful and adjust over time.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video works well for visual connection, phone can be a good option when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and messaging lets people share between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, and daily life while using approaches that address anxiety and related concerns.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- Nebraska
- Languages
- English
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