About
Rita works with individuals, couples and families with focused intention to help clients move forward by experiencing more rootedness in life while also finding their wings to more freedom and fulfillment in life.
Rita is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with focus on family of origin issues . . . PTSD related, Trauma / Grief Issues and present day marital and family conflicts.
Rita is adept at exploring root / core issues whether it be addiction related, trauma related, or present circumstantial challenges in life, realizing that present day anxieties and depression may be embedded in earlier trauma and experiences. Rita guides you in therapy from a non-judgmental compassionate approach knowing that love is “at our core” of what we are.
Rita is also a certified Family Constellation Facilitator with fifteen years training and experience. Family Constellations has focus on ancestral patterns that show up in following illness, addictions, divorce, physical diseases and disorders, suicide, war and cultural crimes. Refer to https://www.familyconstellations.com for more information or book an appointment with Rita.
Rita graduated from the University of Stout Wisconsin, USA in 2004 and has been counselling for 25 years. She is a Registered Marriage and Family Therapist, a Certified Pastoral Counsellor, and a certified member of the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association. Rita also supervises practicum students and is a part-time faculty member at City University.
She works with individuals, couples, groups, and families. Rita’s strength in therapy stems from her deep understanding of the family system. This helps her to support, encourage, inspire, and guide each person to grow and find their own strengths to move forward in their lives.
Rita chose to become a therapist and specialize in couples and family systems because she believes when couples, marriages and families are in a harmonious and loving environment, self-discovery and development of each individual within the system occurs organically.
She is comfortable using interdenominational pastoral counselling as she has 25 years of ministerial background.
Specialties in Therapy:
- Individuals, couples, marriage, and families
- Crisis
- Trauma
- Trained in Somatic Experience
- Grief
- Stress
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Life transitions
- Transgenerational/ancestral
- Family of origin
- EMDR
