Rita Kanareff , LPCC

Rita Kanareff is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) practicing in Ohio with 21 years of clinical experience helping people navigate difficult emotional periods and complex life changes. She focuses on relationship dynamics, transitions, and personal growth, offering tailored support that responds to each person's history and present needs.

Her areas of practice include depression, anxiety, trauma recovery, and interpersonal challenges, and she brings a compassionate, individualized approach to therapy. She is particularly committed to supporting people who have struggled with therapy in the past, older adults, and those seeking either spiritual or non-religious frameworks for their work.

Rita works with clients to cultivate self-compassion, reduce isolation, clarify life purpose, and heal from past wounds. She provides a calm, nonjudgmental environment where individuals can address social anxiety, relationship strain, workplace stress, and the transitions that accompany personal transformation. Drawing on extensive experience, she helps people build resilience and develop practical coping strategies so they can move toward more authentic, meaningful lives.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Rita Kanareff integrates well-established evidence-informed methods into her online practice to address a range of concerns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the connections between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors - it helps people identify unhelpful patterns and develop practical strategies for anxiety, depression, and everyday stress. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a trauma-focused approach that supports processing distressing memories and reducing their emotional intensity, often used for trauma recovery and lingering traumatic reactions. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches skills for managing intense emotions, improving interpersonal effectiveness, and tolerating distress, which can be helpful for relationship conflicts and emotional regulation difficulties.

Finding the right approach is part of the collaborative process. Rita works with each person to explore goals, preferences, and past experiences so they can decide together which techniques or combination of approaches will be most helpful.

Online therapy provides flexible options - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging - so people can access care in ways that fit their schedules and daily lives. These formats make it easier to maintain continuity of care during life transitions and to receive support from familiar surroundings while working toward meaningful change.