About Rita
Dr. Rita Smith is a Georgia-based clinician who blends client-centered care with practical strategies. She brings 25 years of experience and works with people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, and career concerns.
Her style is straightforward and focused on small, doable steps. She begins by listening to what matters most and making a plan together. That plan often includes techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors.
Background and approach
Mindfulness practices are used to help people notice stress and calm their reactions in everyday life. Dr. Smith also uses solution-focused methods to set clear short-term goals.
Those approaches help when someone needs concrete change quickly, such as improving communication or managing work pressure. Sessions can include coaching-style tools for career decisions and life-purpose questions. Across many settings over her career - agencies, universities, independent practice, and military installations - she has helped people work through grief, trauma, parenting strain, and challenges with intimacy or self-esteem.
Her work includes support for LGBT concerns, veteran and armed forces issues, and workplace problems. In sessions clients can expect a calm, goal-minded atmosphere. Dr.
Smith aims to meet people where they are and support steady progress. She frames therapy as practical problem solving alongside emotional understanding.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Dr. Smith uses client-centered work to build rapport and shape therapy around each person’s needs. That approach focuses on listening, reflecting what matters most, and letting clients set the pace and priorities.She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice thought patterns that fuel anxiety and try small behavioral experiments. CBT is helpful for stress, anxiety, mood changes, and areas like workplace or relationship communication by giving concrete tools to practice between sessions.
Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. She talks with each person about goals and preferences, then adjusts strategies as progress unfolds. That means treatment can shift over time to include more mindfulness skills, problem-solving, or focused goal work depending on what helps most.
Online formats available include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging suit people who prefer written check-ins, need flexible timing, or want ongoing brief support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to maintain momentum toward concrete goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Georgia, Maryland
- Languages
- English
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