About Rita
Rita Turner is an experienced licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, and major life changes. She brings a calm and encouraging presence to sessions and focuses on practical steps people can use between meetings. Rita uses straightforward, collaborative conversations to identify immediate concerns and set clear goals.
She listens for what matters most to each person and helps them build skills they can try right away.
Background and approach
Meetings are solution-minded but also give space to understand emotions and relationships. Her background spans 21 years of work in mental health. That experience includes supporting people through breakups, grief, caregiving stress, and challenges from family history.
Rita draws on several approaches to tailor work to each person’s situation rather than following a single method. She commonly uses techniques from cognitive behavioral work to help change unhelpful thoughts and habits. She also uses acceptance and commitment ideas to clarify values and make room for difficult feelings while taking committed action.
Attachment-based and client-centered ideas guide how she builds a trusting, respectful relationship in the room. Rita holds an LMSW - Licensed Master Social Worker - and practices in Michigan. Sessions are conducted in English and offered via video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging for people who prefer online options.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Rita commonly draws on cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy in online sessions. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps people notice and change patterns of thought and behavior that increase anxiety or depression. Acceptance and commitment therapy focuses on clarifying values and taking meaningful action while allowing uncomfortable feelings to exist without getting stuck.She approaches the work collaboratively. Finding the right approach is part of the process, and she will discuss options and adjust methods based on each person’s goals, symptoms, and preferences. Together they decide which tools to try and how to measure progress.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a quick check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep consistent momentum toward goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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