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Rita is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist who serves the community as a licensed ordained Reverend. Rita graduated with her Master’s in Marriage and Family Therapy from Medaille College and is currently earning a Doctoral degree in Medical Family Therapy. Her experience with helping families and marriages to thrive extend over a 10 year period in the Western New York region. Rita specializes in couple, individual and child therapy directly targeting areas of Christian counseling, grief and loss, premarital counseling, conflict reduction, communication skills, self-esteem and a variety of related issues plaguing families.

The therapeutic relationship is the driving current in the heart of healing in therapy. Finding a therapist that you feel comfortable with and trust, is an essential piece for the foundation of treatment. My practice is based on a personalized, eclectic approach, that is tailored to fit your counseling needs. Throughout life's journey, we are forever learning, growing, and changing. My role is to guide you, help you heal, reach your goals, and flourish in life. You have the strength and the power within you, and now is the time to start by building your foundation for change.

I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Buffalo, practicing as a therapist and life-style coach. I work with my clients to provide them with tailored treatment plans that can be integrated into their daily lives. I have extensive experience and training in empirically-based treatments, such as DBT, ACT, EMDR, Schema therapy, IFS and have worked in a complex trauma clinic getting experience in many areas impacting the adult community. My practice provides treatment to adults 18 or older. Offering TELEHEALTH (PHONE and/or WEBCAM SESSIONS).

I work with individual adults in person and virtually to meet personal goals of improved emotional health and self confidence. Are you feeling increased anxiety, panic, depression, grieving a loss or reactivated past traumatic experiences? Are you experiencing changes in sleep? Find your mind won't stop worrying? Are you more easily agitated or engaging in undesired or unhealthy coping behaviors? Do you find it difficult to get going each day? Wonder if there are better ways of managing your life and relationships?

When life gets heavy it can feel like we're stuck in a forest, struggling to find warmth and navigate ourselves toward a safe path. This can make it difficult to show up in our lives the way we’d like to, we’re desperately trying to move forward, but past experiences and future worries trip us time and time again. Trauma, depression, anxiety, and grief can make it easy to stay stuck in this forest. What can be difficult, though, is reaching out for a hand to hold along the way as we make new turns that lead us back to ourselves.

Asking for help can be one of the hardest things to do. If you are here reading this, then you have already taken the first step towards the path of healing. This journey doesn't have to be done alone, and it would be my honor to walk alongside you. Life can be unpredictable and many times we face difficult situations that impact our ability to live up to our full potential. I believe in your unlimited capacity to grow and change, and my passion is to help you improve your quality of life. Together, we will find solutions and create long-term changes.

Life can be challenging on someone's best day. We can often times feel overwhelmed, down, stressed or unsure of exactly what we are feeling. My goal as a therapist is to help you make the best out of the difficult times and learn ways to better understand and manage the stressors of your everyday life. It is important to bring to light both current concerns and things from your past that are still impacting you. Having someone there to support and help guide you through these difficult times is my ultimate goal.

I have been practicing for over 20 years as a social worker.  I work with adolescents and older teenagers, as well as adults. Through my career, I have built an exceptional skillset which I use each day with each individual client. Reaching out for assistance can be overwhelming. Taking the first step is usually the hardest.

Today’s therapy, now. I treat anxiety, depression, narcissism, grief, couples, adults and more. I focus on comfort, precision and thoroughness to strengthen the dynamics and boundaries of life, event and issue strategies. Learn specific skills and understand how education, career, boundaries and justice combine to express themselves into human behavior and thought. All ages, experiences, education and careers, individual, marriage, family, sport, and court. Decades as a therapist, scientist, in investigation and research, a coach and teacher. Best performance outcomes in a diversity of settings and factors. CBT if desired. Private.