About Rita
Rita Dellatore is a licensed clinical social worker with 27 years of experience helping people who want a healthier life. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, addictions, eating concerns, bipolar challenges, and changes that feel overwhelming. Rita aims to meet people where they are and build on their strengths.
Rita takes a straightforward, warm approach. She values honesty and a non-judgmental tone in sessions. Clients who are motivated to make changes and willing to try new coping skills tend to do well with her style.
How Rita works
Her work draws on several practical therapies. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people accept difficult feelings while moving toward meaningful goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors.
Mindfulness practices are woven in to reduce reactivity and increase calm. Rita also uses client-centered methods to keep the conversation focused on each person’s priorities. Motivational Interviewing is used when people are ambivalent about change and need help finding internal reasons to move forward.
Over the years she has supported people with family-related stress, attachment and adoption concerns, caregiver strain, codependency, and relationship communication problems. Her practice combines practical skill teaching with steady emotional support. Sessions are offered in English and available to people in Florida and internationally.
Rita encourages a team approach where the person in therapy and the clinician work together to set goals and track progress.
Rita lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Rita works with
The areas below are the ones Rita selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 27 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Therapeutic Approaches for Online Work
Rita frequently integrates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy into online sessions. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult feelings without getting driven by them and then take steps toward a life that matters to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety or depression.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Rita collaborates with each person to identify goals and preferences, and then adapts methods to match what feels most useful. She checks in regularly to see what is working and adjusts the plan together.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit into a busy schedule or use less bandwidth. Live chat and messaging allow brief check-ins and written reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting it into daily life.
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