About Rita
Rita Mahon helps people who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or uncertain about their next step. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and difficulties around relationships and intimacy. Rita uses straightforward language and practical steps so busy parents and professionals can make progress without getting lost in jargon.
Rita is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker, or LICSW, practicing in Rhode Island with 18 years of experience. She believes people are the experts in their own lives and builds on each person’s strengths.
How Rita works
Sessions focus on small, doable changes that fit into everyday life rather than big, abstract goals. Her approach draws from several evidence-based methods. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thought and behavior and teaches skills to change them.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, ACT, helps people clarify values and take committed steps toward them. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, offers concrete tools for managing strong emotions and improving communication. Rita also uses client-centered and existential ideas to create a respectful, reflective space.
Together she and the client explore meaning, choices, and practical solutions tailored to the person’s situation. That can include work on parenting stress, addiction concerns, career questions, ADHD-related struggles, and caregiver strain. Therapy can be a step-by-step process.
Rita focuses on what matters most to each person and helps translate insight into everyday practice.
Rita lists 14 ways of working on the entry:
- 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
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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LICSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 18 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Rhode Island |
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Online support options
Approach and online care that fit your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying what matters to you and taking small steps that align with those values. It helps when worry or avoidance keeps someone from living the life they want. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact and teaches practical tools for changing unhelpful patterns and mood. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, provides hands-on skills for managing intense emotions and improving communication in stressful moments.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Rita will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which methods to use and adjust the plan over time so it fits the client’s needs.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people work face-to-face from different locations. Phone sessions can fit shorter check-ins or times with limited bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief updates, coaching between sessions, or for people who prefer not to be on camera. These options make it easier to schedule therapy around work, family, and other obligations.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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