Rita Kanareff, LPCC

Rita Kanareff is an Ohio-based licensed therapist with 21 years of clinical experience. She holds the LPCC credential, which stands for Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor and signifies formal training and licensure to provide clinical counseling in Ohio. Rita focuses her practice on supporting people through complex emotional experiences, life transitions, and shifting relationship dynamics.

Her work addresses a broad range of concerns, including depression, anxiety, trauma recovery, and interpersonal challenges. She has particular experience assisting older adults and individuals who have found therapy difficult in the past, and she offers both spiritual and non-religious therapeutic frameworks so each person can work in a way that fits their beliefs and values.

Rita helps clients cultivate self-compassion, reduce isolation, explore life purpose, and heal from past wounds. She provides a nonjudgmental environment to address social anxiety, relationship conflict, workplace stress, and personal transformation. Drawing on more than two decades of practice, she aims to empower people to build resilience, develop healthier coping strategies, and pursue lives that feel more authentic and meaningful. Rita works collaboratively with each person to tailor an approach that matches their needs and goals.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Rita draws on established, practical approaches to help people meet their goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and changing behaviors that maintain distress; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress-related difficulties. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches skills for regulating intense emotions, improving relationships, and tolerating distress, which can be helpful for people struggling with emotional reactivity and interpersonal conflict. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, supports processing of traumatic memories to reduce their emotional impact and can be beneficial for trauma recovery.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and Rita works collaboratively with each person to determine which methods best fit their needs, goals, and preferences. She combines clinical judgment with client feedback to tailor sessions over time so the work feels meaningful and manageable.

Online therapy with Rita is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, providing flexibility to fit therapy into busy schedules or to access care from home. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care during life transitions and to choose the format that feels most comfortable for each person.