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Rita LaBrew, LMFT, brings a depth of experience spanning foster care, child welfare, private practice, and telehealth. I offer a collaborative therapy space grounded in clinical skill and evidence-informed care. I tailor treatment to each client’s goals, helping individuals build insight, resilience, and lasting change. I work with adults willing to look inward and reflect on their inner lives. My approach integrates psychodynamic therapy and psychoeducation to help clients understand how past experiences, unconscious patterns, and present thoughts shape emotions and behavior. By offering clarity, language, and insight, therapy becomes a space for understanding, steadiness, and meaningful change over time. My style is thoughtful, direct, and collaborative. I use an insight-oriented psychodynamic approach to help you understand the roots beneath the pattern: family-of-origin dynamics, protective roles, and the stories you’ve had to live by. I also use psychoeducation to make therapy practical: clear language for what you’re experiencing, tools for boundaries, and ways to respond differently in real life.
In our first therapy session (intake), I’ll ask structured questions to understand your goals, symptoms, history, and what’s bringing you to counseling. You’ll have space to share at your own pace, and we’ll begin identifying key patterns, stressors, and strengths to create a clear treatment plan for individual outpatient therapy.
My strengths include careful observation and deep listening, informed by years of clinical and personal experience. I use these skills to help clients identify patterns, gain self-understanding, and feel supported. I also provide psychoeducation and recommend relevant readings or resources to encourage reflection and growth between sessions.
I work best with adults who are thoughtful, curious, and ready for deeper therapeutic work around anxiety, depression, trauma, family-of-origin wounds, and repeating relationship patterns. My ideal client may appear high functioning on the outside while privately feeling overwhelmed, emotionally burdened, or disconnected. They are not only looking for symptom relief, but also for greater self-understanding, healing, and lasting change. I am best positioned to support clients who want to explore how past experiences continue to shape the present and who are ready to build a more grounded, intentional life.
Trauma Informed Care
I use a trauma-informed care approach because no two people or experiences are the same, and different moments call for different tools. Therapy isn’t a race to a finish line, but a thoughtful journey that may take many paths, guided by what best supports understanding, growth, and change.
Couples Counseling
I work with couples who want to better understand the patterns shaping their relationship and create healthier ways of communicating, relating, and repairing. My approach is thoughtful, direct, and grounded in curiosity about what is happening beneath the surface, including family-of-origin influences, emotional roles, and repeated cycles of conflict or disconnection. I help partners slow things down, speak more honestly, and build a more grounded, respectful connection.
Attachment-based
I use attachment-focused therapy to help clients understand how early relationships continue to influence trust, closeness, emotional needs, and patterns in adult relationships. With reflection and insight, I help clients recognize these patterns and begin building more secure and grounded ways of relating.
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
I use Cognitive Behavioral Therapy because our thoughts can shape how we feel and see things, even if they are not always accurate. CBT helps us notice these patterns and find more balanced and flexible ways of thinking.
Narrative
I use Narrative Therapy because the stories we tell about our lives shape how we see ourselves and our possibilities. This approach helps people separate from limiting narratives, honor their experiences, and create meanings that feel accurate, grounded, and empowering.