Rita Kanareff, LPCC
Practical, skills-focused counseling for everyday life
Explore online therapy options- Years in practice
- 21
- Credentials
- LPCC
- Licensed in
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Family conflicts
About Rita
Rita Kanareff is an Ohio licensed professional counselor, LPCC, with 21 years of experience. She focuses on practical support for people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and parenting concerns. Rita aims to make therapy straightforward and workable for daily life.
Rita uses clear, skills-based work to help people manage intense emotions and improve relationships. She draws on cognitive behavioral strategies to shift unhelpful thoughts and dialectical behavior ideas to build emotion regulation and distress tolerance.
Background and approach
Mindfulness practices and EMDR are also available for trauma and persistent painful memories. People often come to Rita with issues like grief, intimacy struggles, eating or sleeping problems, ADHD, and career strain. She also helps those facing attachment wounds, blended family stress, caregiver burnout, and the aftermath of separation or domestic violence.
Sessions emphasize small, concrete steps clients can try between meetings. Rita values collaboration and follows the client’s pace. She blends motivational interviewing when people want to make behavior changes, and she uses solution-focused moves to set short-term goals.
The work is aimed at increasing coping skills, reducing overwhelm, and improving day-to-day functioning. Sessions can include talking, guided skills practice, and targeted exercises tailored to each person's needs. Rita frames progress as gradual and practical, helping people build routines that support mental health and parenting goals over time.
What Rita works with
Everything Rita lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Rita helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Depression
- LGBT
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Rita lists
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How Rita Uses Evidence-Based Methods Online
Rita draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. CBT often involves short exercises and practical homework to reduce anxiety, depression, and stress.She also uses dialectical behavior therapy tools to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal skills. DBT techniques can help with intense emotions, relationship patterns, and managing anger or impulsive reactions.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Rita will talk with the client about their goals and preferences and suggest methods that fit those needs. She adjusts the plan as progress and circumstances change.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video calls work well for in-depth conversation and skills coaching, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited, and messaging lets people check in or get shorter, focused support between meetings. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care while balancing work, family, and other commitments.
Questions people ask about Rita
What concerns does Rita commonly address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy-related issues, eating and sleeping problems, ADHD, and parenting concerns among other issues.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Rita uses a practical, collaborative approach that blends cognitive behavioral tools, dialectical behavior strategies, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing to set achievable goals.
How much experience does she have?
Rita has 21 years of clinical experience working with a wide range of emotional and behavioral concerns.
What credentials and region does she practice in?
She holds the LPCC credential and practices in Ohio.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
How does cost and billing work?
Cost varies with location and therapist selection; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with Rita?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
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