About Rita
Rita Dellatore is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 27 years of experience helping people who feel stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure where to turn. She focuses on practical steps people can take right now to feel steadier and more capable. Rita speaks plain language and works alongside each person to set realistic goals.
Rita draws on decades of work across different settings. She often helps people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and the lingering effects of trauma and abuse.
Background and approach
She also supports those struggling with addictions, eating concerns, bipolar mood shifts, and challenges tied to family roles. Her style is straightforward and warm. Rita respects each person's pace and encourages honesty in sessions.
She looks for strengths to build on and teaches coping skills that can be used between appointments. Rita pays attention to relationship patterns and attachment wounds, and she offers help around abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, blended family tensions, and caregiver stress.
She also works with people facing aging and geriatric concerns, autism spectrum issues, codependency, and difficulties around communication and control. People who choose Rita usually want to make tangible changes. Sessions focus on problem-solving, skill practice, and clearer thinking about next steps.
The goal is to feel more able to handle everyday life and major transitions.
Approaches that translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes by focusing on what matters most rather than getting stuck on feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches clear skills to shift unhelpful patterns. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress-related issues. Client-Centered Therapy concentrates on a respectful, non-judgmental relationship where the person sets the pace and goals. This approach supports self-esteem, confidence, and personal insight.Figuring out the right approach is part of the work. Rita will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their needs and goals. Together they review what feels helpful and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people talk and see visual cues; phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a work break; live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins and ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting it into daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English