Rita Kanareff, LPCC

Rita Kanareff is an Ohio licensed professional clinical counselor (LPCC) with 21 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, mood shifts, and difficult life changes. Rita meets each person where they are and offers clear, practical steps rather than vague promises.

Rita uses methods that help people make small, concrete changes in day-to-day thinking and behavior. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thought patterns and on mindfulness practices to reduce reactivity. When trauma is involved she may integrate approaches designed to process painful memories and reduce their hold on daily life.

Her work often looks at relationships, intimacy, and the ways past attachment or abandonment experiences shape current reactions. She also addresses issues such as sleep and eating concerns, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and workplace pressure. Sessions emphasize realistic coping skills and experiments people can try between meetings.

Rita values a collaborative process. She helps set short-term goals, checks progress, and adjusts strategies when something isn’t helping. The aim is steady, manageable change rather than quick fixes.

People who choose Rita can expect straightforward talk, practical tools, and an emphasis on rebuilding confidence and emotional balance. She communicates in plain language and focuses on what a person can do next to feel better.

How Rita’s approaches work online

Rita commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and practice different responses. CBT breaks worries and patterns into manageable parts so people can test new behaviors. Mindfulness teaches simple awareness skills that reduce reactivity and improve focus, which can help with anxiety, sleep, and mood.

When trauma is part of the picture she may include trauma-focused strategies that aim to process distressing memories and reduce their day-to-day impact. Rita discusses options with each person and together they decide which methods feel most useful for the goals at hand. That collaborative planning helps tailor the work to what a person needs and prefers.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and comfort levels. Video lets people work more like an in-person session, phone can be a lower-bandwidth option or easier during a busy day, and messaging supports shorter check-ins or ongoing skill practice between meetings. These formats make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting it into everyday life.