Rita Mahon, LICSW

Rita Mahon is a Rhode Island licensed clinical social worker with 18 years of experience supporting people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and relationship concerns. She helps clients who are dealing with trauma, addiction, caregiving strain, and life transitions. Rita aims to work alongside each person to build on their strengths and move toward more satisfying daily life.

Rita believes clients are the experts on their own stories. She focuses on listening first and helping people identify what matters most to them. Conversations in sessions are practical and goal-oriented, with attention to coping skills and ways to manage strong emotions.

Her clinical work draws on several respected approaches, including acceptance and commitment techniques, cognitive behavioral ideas, and client-centered guidance. These methods inform how she helps people notice unhelpful patterns and try different ways of responding. Rita also integrates strategies from dialectical and existential perspectives when they suit a client’s needs.

Rita has supported people through caregiving stress, aging and geriatric issues, adoption and foster care concerns, and attachment or abandonment wounds. She also helps with parenting questions, intimacy challenges, and career-related stress. Her focus includes both short-term problem solving and longer-term personal growth.

Sessions are offered in English and take place with her Rhode Island practice. If a reader is unsure whether her style fits their needs, the simplest next step is to use the site’s Start Therapy flow and complete the brief matching questionnaire to schedule a first appointment.

Approaches that guide online work and goals

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice what matters to them and take committed steps toward those values, even when feelings are hard. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. It often helps with anxiety, mood concerns, and coping strategies. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship where the therapist follows the client’s lead and supports personal insight and growth.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Rita will collaborate with clients to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. She adjusts techniques over time and checks in about what is or isn’t helping so the care stays relevant.

Confirm the current session options before booking, as specific formats are listed when you start the matching process. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, shorten a quick check-in, or reduce travel time. It also lets people continue work through relocation or caregiving demands while still meeting regularly with a licensed professional who can guide skill practice and problem solving.