About Rita
Rita Kanareff welcomes people who feel overwhelmed, stuck, or unsure how to move forward. She focuses on simple, practical steps clients can use right away. Rita uses straightforward conversation to help people lower stress, manage anxiety, and rebuild day-to-day functioning.
Rita has 21 years of clinical experience and holds the LPCC credential. She works with adults facing depression, trauma, grief, identity concerns, and relationship strain. Her background includes helping people with sleep and eating issues, ADHD, chronic illness, and career or life-change challenges.
Background and approach
In sessions she blends evidence-based tools with mindfulness and a collaborative tone. That means she helps clients notice patterns, try new coping skills, and set realistic goals. Therapy can include short skills practice, reflective talk, and step-by-step plans for immediate problems.
Rita also uses approaches aimed at processing trauma and intense emotions. She draws on methods that target troubling memories and teach skills to manage distressing feelings. The work is paced to each person’s readiness.
People who’ve had difficult experiences in therapy before often find her patient and steady. She supports folks exploring identity and intimacy, and those dealing with caregiving stress or compassion fatigue. Sessions are practical and focused on improving daily life.
Approaches That Translate Well to Online Work
Rita commonly draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing during online sessions. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression. EMDR is used to work through traumatic memories by processing distressing images and sensations in a paced way.She also integrates Mindfulness Therapy to teach simple attention and breathing exercises that reduce stress in daily life. Those practices are short and easy to use between sessions to help with sleep, anger, and overwhelming feelings.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Rita will talk with each person about goals, try techniques, and adjust methods based on what helps most. That collaborative process aims to match tools to real-life needs rather than forcing a single method.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different situations. Video is helpful for longer therapy sessions and visual cues. Phone can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a quieter setup is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow brief check-ins or skills practice between sessions and can fit into busy days more easily.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English