Ryta Marie Peschka

Thirty years of clinical work have shaped Ryta Marie Peschka into a therapist who meets people where they are — not where a treatment protocol expects them to be. Trained across a wide range of modalities, she brings that depth to individuals, couples, and families navigating everything from daily anxiety and grief to addiction, trauma, and the quiet weight of burnout. She has also spent over a decade teaching Developmental Psychology at the post-secondary level, and has designed and led community programs and psychotherapy groups addressing substance misuse, depression, self-worth, concurrent disorders, and more.

Ryta works with teenagers, adults, and older adults in Ottawa and across Ontario through her online clinic, Psychotherapy Collective, helping clients untangle what holds them back and build on what they already carry. She hears often from people who are constantly reachable — texts answered, feeds scrolled — yet find themselves genuinely unknown to anyone around them, and that particular ache is something she takes seriously in the room.

Her practice is grounded in a strength-based, solution-focused perspective: the belief that the capacity for change already lives inside the person sitting across from her, and her role is to help them find it. Free consultations are available.