About Rita
Dr. Rita Martin brings a decade of counseling experience to her work. She guides people through stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship concerns, and struggles with addiction and ADHD.
She emphasizes practical steps that lead to clearer thinking and steadier days. She approaches counseling as a team effort. The client and she first build understanding and trust.
Together they define current problems and set concrete goals for change. Sessions focus on self-awareness and reducing patterns that hold people back.
Background and approach
Her background includes a Master of Arts in Student Personnel Services, Counseling and a Doctor of Behavioral Health. Rita holds Licensed Professional Counselor credentials in Louisiana, Texas, and Oregon, and she has worked in the field for ten years. Her style combines direct, skills-based work with attention to feelings and life story.
She blends techniques that help people reframe unhelpful thoughts, calm overwhelming emotions, and build more effective habits. She also uses mindfulness and motivational methods to support daily changes. In sessions clients can expect clear goals, practical tools, and room to talk through hard memories.
She helps people practice new ways of coping between meetings. The aim is steady progress people can notice in day-to-day life.
Practical approaches for online therapy
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It gives simple, practical exercises to reduce anxiety, manage depression, and improve sleep.Emotionally-Focused Therapy centers on understanding and naming feelings. It helps people clarify emotional patterns that influence relationships and personal stress, steering conversations toward stronger emotional awareness.
Hypnotherapy in her practice involves guided relaxation and focused attention to help shift habits and reduce emotional intensity around certain memories or triggers.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. She will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, and then suggest techniques to try. Decisions about methods are collaborative and can be adjusted as progress is made.
Online sessions can be done by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues and have fuller conversations. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth or camera time is limited. Live chat and text messaging work for brief check-ins, homework support, or when a shorter touchpoint is helpful. These options make scheduling more flexible and help therapy fit into busy lives.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana, Texas, Oregon
- Languages
- English