About Client
Rita Motta is a Registered Social Worker with the Alberta College of Social Workers. She holds a clinical master’s degree in social work (MSW) – Practice with Individuals, Families, and Groups, from the University of Calgary, and a bachelor’s degree in social work (BSW) from MacEwan University, where she graduated with distinction and was on the Dean’s List.
In 2024, Rita was lauded with the Dr. Gayla Rogers Legacy Medal in Social Work, which is awarded by the University of Calgary to the master’s student with the highest cumulative GPA who has also demonstrated excellence in leadership and in their field placement.
Bringing to the team over seven years of volunteer and social services work experience, Rita joined Kids Reconnect in 2024.
Rita has a Certificate in Therapeutic Play Skills and a Certificate in Play Inquiry Skills master class through Rocky Mountain Play Therapy Institute. She has completed Internal Family Systems (IFS) Circle and IFS with Children and Adolescents training. Rita is also an Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapist with Level 1 and 2 training,
In her therapy sessions with children, adolescents, and parents, she draws from play-based techniques and integrates the cognitive with the somatic through modalities like EMDR and IFS, in which she is trained. She also draws from her training in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Third-Wave Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Motivational Interviewing, mindfulness-based and trauma-focused therapy techniques, therapeutic writing for grief and trauma, and conflict resolution, while maintaining client-centred, anti-oppressive, and strengths-based approaches.
Rita welcomes the individuals she works with into a non-judgemental and empathic space.
Rita is professionally fluent in English and Spanish, and conversational in French. She offers child, adolescent, parent, family, and adult (individual) counselling in English and Spanish.
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