About Rita
Rita Mahon is a licensed clinical social worker in Rhode Island who helps people facing stress and anxiety. She speaks plainly and offers steady support as people work through relationship strain, grief, depression, addiction concerns, and other life changes. Rita encourages clients to build on their own strengths while they seek clearer direction and better coping skills.
Rita draws on nearly two decades of practice to guide conversations and plan next steps.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical strategies tailored to each person's situation. She uses approaches that emphasize values, skill-building, and thoughtful reflection to untangle painful patterns and reduce distress. Clients can expect a collaborative tone where their goals steer the work.
Rita centers the person's experience and helps identify small, doable steps toward change. She also addresses issues like parenting stress, caregiver burden, body image, and workplace difficulties as they arise in session. Her background includes long-term clinical work in Rhode Island and training across several therapeutic approaches.
Rita blends evidence-informed techniques with a person-centered attitude to balance skill teaching and deeper meaning-making. This mix is helpful for those coping with trauma, mood shifts, or recurring anxiety. Rita offers multiple ways to connect, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
She supports people figuring out whether therapy, coaching, or short-term skills work best for their goals.
How her approaches work online
Rita uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify what matters most to them and take steps aligned with those values. ACT is often useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions because it focuses on meaningful action rather than trying to eliminate every uncomfortable thought.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and practice different ways of responding. CBT is practical and skill-focused, which can help with panic, persistent worry, low mood, and patterns that keep problems going.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Rita will discuss different methods with each person and help choose what fits best based on goals, challenges, and personal style. She treats the process as collaborative and adjusts methods as needs change.
Online options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for deeper, face-to-face conversation; phone calls can fit a quick check-in or when bandwidth is limited; live chat and messaging work well for short updates, homework, or ongoing support between sessions. These formats make it easier to get consistent help around work, school, or caregiving responsibilities.
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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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