About Rita
Rita Mahon is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and relationship concerns. She emphasizes a respectful, down-to-earth approach so people can feel heard and understood. Rita presents herself as a steady presence during hard moments and focuses on practical steps toward feeling better.
Her practice embraces somatic work alongside evidence-informed therapies. Sessions often include attention to bodily sensations, skills to manage overwhelming feelings, and conversations that clarify values and goals.
Background and approach
Rita combines this with cognitive-behavioral tools to change unhelpful thinking and client-centered listening to follow each person’s priorities. Over 18 years of clinical work in Rhode Island, Rita has supported people through trauma, addiction concerns, parenting strain, caregiving stress, and life transitions. She also addresses issues such as attachment wounds, body image, codependency, and career stress.
Her style is collaborative and calm, aimed at helping people build skills they can use between sessions. Rita holds a LICSW, Rhode Island license number RI LICSW ISW02728, and conducts sessions in English. Therapy is offered through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time, with various session formats including video, phone, live chat, and text messaging.
To begin, users complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions based on availability. Rita frames the process as a partnership, helping each person find practical ways to cope, grow, and move toward goals.
Using body awareness and practical therapies online
Somatic-informed work pays attention to how stress and emotions show up in the body. Online sessions can include guidance to notice breathing, posture, tension, and grounding sensations to help regulate difficult feelings. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying values and taking small, values-aligned steps while learning to accept uncomfortable thoughts and feelings. It can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes empathetic listening and creating a respectful space where the person sets the pace and topics for work.Choosing the right blend of approaches is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to identify what feels most useful based on their goals, preferences, and life context. That means trying tools, checking what helps, and adjusting methods over time rather than committing to one fixed path.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and guided somatic exercises. Phone sessions can be a good fit when video is not possible. Live chat and text-based messaging provide shorter, on-the-go check-ins and ways to practice skills between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapeutic work into busy schedules and to continue care from different locations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- 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
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Rhode Island
- Languages
- English