Rita Motta Martinez, BSW, MSW, RSW
Offers
In-person and virtual appointments
- Social Worker
- Woman
Accepting new patients
Provider information
Description
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, families, 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.
Conditions
- Anxiety
- Behavioral Issues
- Bullying
- Codependency
- Depression
- Divorce
- Eating disorders
- Emotion Regulation
- Emotional Abuse
- Grief, loss, bereavement
- Loneliness
- Parenting
- Post-traumatic stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Racial Identity
- Relationship Issues
- Self Esteem
- Sexual Abuse
- Stress
- Suicidal Thoughts
- Trauma
- Women's Issues
- Workplace stress
Provider's hours
Sunday
Closed
Monday
12:00 pm
-
8:00 pm
Tuesday
9:00 am
-
5:00 pm
Wednesday
9:00 am
-
9:00 pm
Thursday
12:00 pm
-
8:00 pm
Friday
9:00 am
-
5:00 pm
Saturday
Closed
Services
- Acceptance and commitment therapy
- Art therapy
- Attachment-based therapy
- Cognitive behavioral therapy
- Compassion-focused therapy
- Culturally sensitive therapy
- Dialectical behavior therapy
- Eclectic therapy
- Emotionally focused therapy
- Expressive arts therapy
- Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy
- Family counselling
- Family systems therapy
- Feminist therapy
- Group counselling
- Humanistic therapy
- Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy
- Motivational interviewing
- Multicultural therapy
- Narrative therapy
- Person-centered therapy
- Play therapy
- Positive psychology
- Relational therapy
- Solution-focused brief therapy
- Somatic therapy
- Strength-based therapy
- Teen mental health
- Therapeutic intervention
- Trauma-focused cognitive behavior therapy
Languages spoken
- English
- Spanish
Professional designations
- Bachelor of Social Work (BSW)
- Master of Social Work (MSW)
- Registered Social Worker (RSW)
Education
- MSW - Clinical Master of Social Work, Practice with Individuals, Families, and Groups, University of Calgary
- BSW - Bachelor of Social Work, Graduated with Distinction, MacEwan University
- Lauded in 2024 with the Dr. Gayla Rogers Legacy Medal in Social Work, awarded by the University of Calgary to the student with the highest cumulative GPA and who has demonstrated excellence in leadership and in their field placement.
Facility: Calgary Reconnect Counselling Group
Summary
Calgary Reconnect Counselling Group is Calgary’s haven of specialized counselling services for kids, families, and couples. Why “reconnect”, and why kids and couples? Because connectedness—the quality of our relationships— is fundamental to mental health. Kids, families, and couples are at the core of relational health. That is why our practice focuses on these cornerstone connections: our Kids Reconnect branch supports kids and families, and our Couples Reconnect branch supports couples.
Business hours
Sunday
Closed
Monday
8:30 am
-
8:30 pm
Tuesday
8:30 am
-
8:30 pm
Wednesday
8:30 am
-
8:30 pm
Thursday
8:30 am
-
8:30 pm
Friday
8:30 am
-
8:30 pm
Saturday
8:30 am
-
5:00 pm
Services & supplies
- Acceptance and commitment therapy
- Addictions (assessment/treatment)
- Adlerian therapy
- Applied behavior analysis
- Art therapy
- Attachment-based therapy
- Bibliotherapy
- Cognitive behavioral therapy
- Cognitive processing therapy
- Compassion-focused therapy
- Culturally sensitive therapy
- Dance therapy
- Dialectical behavior therapy
- Eclectic therapy
- Educational assessments
- Emotionally focused therapy
- Existential therapy
- Experiential therapy
- Expressive arts therapy
- Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy
- Family counselling
- Family systems therapy
- Feminist therapy
- Gestalt therapy
- Group counselling
- Humanistic therapy
- Interpersonal psychotherapy
- Marital counselling
- Marriage and family therapy
- Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy
- Motivational interviewing
- Multicultural therapy
- Music therapy
- Narrative therapy
- Parent-child interaction therapy (PCIT)
- Person-centered therapy
- Play therapy
- Positive psychology
- Psychodynamic therapy
- Psychological therapy
- Relational therapy
- Relationship counselling
- Sandplay therapy
- Schema therapy
- Solution-focused brief therapy
- Somatic therapy
- Strength-based therapy
- Structural family therapy
- Teen mental health
- The Gottman method
- Therapeutic intervention
- Trauma informed care
- Trauma-focused cognitive behavior therapy
Amenities
- Close to public transit
- Free parking
- Free Wi-Fi
- Wheelchair accessible
