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I know you don't want pscyhoanalysis, but that's how you stop it. She's peeing someplace she knows you'll have to notice. That's a message. If she weren't, she'd hide somewhere to keep her world cleaner.
Two main things she could be telling you. One is that she's sick. It doesn't have to be urinary. Cats are incredibly communicative, and they do what they can to get your attention because they expect you to help. She could be telling you something else is wrong. Two could be that there's something wrong with the litter box. Maybe too many cats for her comfort are using it. Maybe the litter isn't cleaned enough. Maybe it's a bad brand. Maybe it's some cat thing you'll never figure out.
I once had a cat pee on my foot, or on the mattress next to my foot. They had been trying to get my attention all day, and I had ignored them, thinking they just wanted to be petted. Finally when I felt the warmth of their urgency, so to speak, I explored the apartment (after trying to teach them a few new words) and discovered that my 11 year old had closed their litter box off. I had another cat--the infamous Minnie if you remember the Lounge kitty from a few years ago--who used to pee on my things when she was mad at me for something--either yelling at her, or not petting her enough, or even switching her food.
So you have to do two things. First, stop Ratface from peeing on the counter. One way to do that are to make the counter very unpleasant for her. You've already gotten good advice there. I'd also say you could soak a rag in bleach and leave it on the counter, or cover your counter in upside-down bowls. The problem there is any of it will inconvenience you, and as soon as you remove the barrier she'll start up again. The other option is to lock her out of the kitchen, either by locking her up, or locking up the kitchen. Any of these need to be combined with a better fix.
A better fix is to lock her in a room for a while with her own food, water, and litter box, and a pile of towels or papers in a corner opposite the litter box. See which she prefers. Switch litters if she starts using the pile. Leave the pile there as long as you can stand it, because eventually she'll hate the pile more than the litter box. If she never uses the pile, then there's something about the other litter box she doesn't like. Maybe it's not clean enough, maybe she hates the other cats, maybe one of the other cats is bullying her out of the box. I've seen that happen, and it's a pain because scolding the bullied cat just bullies her more (scolding never works on cats, anyway, it's just to make the owner feel better). Anyway, the point is, if she uses her own litter box all the time, then the problem is the other litter box. If she still goes on the pile with her own clean box and a couple of different litter options, then the problem is her. If it's her, she's got a medical issue, probably. If it's the box, then you have to find a way to give her her own box.
Those are my thoughts. None of the solutions is perfect because I don't know your house and setup. We had a foster cat once who pooped on the counter. That was nice. Couldn't ever get her to use the box. We rescued her and her litter from under a neighbor's shed, and she just wanted to be an outdoor cat and would accept nothing less. Ultimately we had to give her to a rescue service, which was our plan all along, with four cats and three dogs already. The only other cat I could never train completely was Minnie, who mostly used her box when she was healthy, but would go off it for times when she was upset about new cats or new food or just whatever. All cats are different, so you just have to work with her.
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