Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Depression
How Rita works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LICSW
- Licensed in
- Rhode Island
- Years in practice
- 18
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Rita
Rita Mahon, LICSW, focuses on helping people who are carrying heavy emotions like anger, grief, or anxiety. She speaks plainly and listens closely so clients can make sense of their reactions. Rita aims to help people find practical ways to manage stress and handle difficult moments with more choice and calm.
She uses straightforward tools to tackle problems such as relationship strain, trauma and abuse, depression, addictions, and self‑esteem concerns.
Background and approach
Sessions often involve learning new coping skills, trying small behavior changes, and examining patterns that keep problems stuck. Rita frames therapy as a team effort where the client is the expert on their life. With 18 years of experience in Rhode Island, she brings steady clinical know-how to the work.
Her background includes supporting people through career transitions, parenting stress, compassion fatigue, and challenges linked to ADHD and bipolar disorder. The LICSW credential means she holds a clinical social work license in Rhode Island. Rita combines several practical therapy styles to fit each person’s needs.
She blends acceptance-based strategies with cognitive and skills-focused techniques. This mix helps clients build tolerance for hard feelings while changing unhelpful habits. Many people come to her for help with anger and control issues, communication problems, abandonment or attachment wounds, and blended family stress.
She also supports clients facing grief, addiction, and life changes who want clearer goals and steadier daily routines.
What Rita works with
Everything Rita lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Rita's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Depression
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Rita lists
- 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
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Rita commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings while choosing actions that match their values. This approach can be useful for anger, anxiety, and coping with life changes.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, a problem-focused method that identifies unhelpful thoughts and shifts patterns of behavior. CBT can help with depression, anxiety, habit change, and improving everyday reactions to stress.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Rita will talk with each person about goals, try strategies, and adjust methods based on what helps. Clients and therapist decide together whether to prioritize acceptance, skills training, or cognitive work.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a fuller check-in is needed. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter option is preferred. Live chat and text-based messaging provide brief check-ins, ongoing coaching, and tools between longer sessions. These options offer flexibility while keeping the focus on practical skills and steady progress.
Questions people ask about Rita
What concerns does Rita commonly address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, and anger. Rita also addresses relationship strain, trauma and abuse, self‑esteem, and career-related stress.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Rita blends acceptance-based work with cognitive and skills-focused methods. Sessions emphasize practical tools and exploration of life patterns.
How much clinical experience does she have?
Rita has 18 years of professional experience working with a wide range of emotional and behavioral concerns.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She holds an LICSW, which is a clinical social work license in Rhode Island. Her practice is located in Rhode Island.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available online?
Rita offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging for remote work.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and the therapist subscription model. Sessions are provided through a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with Rita?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button and completing a short matching questionnaire. Then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.