Your wellness is a journey.
Let’s journey together.
Culturally-sensitive therapist in San Francisco for Couples, Mamas, and Individuals.
Online wherever you are in California, Florida, and Pennsylvania to help you heal, strengthen, and grow.
Is today one of those days where even the thought of putting one foot in front of the other
feels exhausting or overwhelming?
Or maybe today you’re thinking about what living your best life looks like for you.
No matter what kind of day it is today, I’m here to help you take the next step.
Hi! I’m Larissa.
We don’t know each other yet, but I believe that you deserve to move through your life with confidence and joy.
I’m a licensed therapist in San Francisco serving clients virtually throughout CA, FL, and PA. I help couples and individuals, just like you, experience relief from the emotional pain that’s making them feel stuck and help them live their lives with courage and compassion, knowing just how strong they truly are.
When’s the last time you felt strong?
Like really, truly strong?
With the kind of strength that makes you think I got this.
Maybe even We got this.
The kind of strength that gives you courage to take a chance.
To trust yourself that you will bend but not break.
To set healthy boundaries.
To ask for what you need.
The kind of strength it takes to pause for long enough to even ask yourself what you need in the first place.
You’re stronger than you think.
It takes so much strength to decide that you want to heal.
From your past traumas.
From patterns that are keeping you stuck.
To be willing to face the things that are bothering you instead of just putting your head down and plowing through.
To be open to doing things differently than how you’ve always done them.
To allow yourself to hope.
To reach out for help.
It takes so much strength to decide that you want more.
For yourself.
For your relationship.
You, being here today, shows that you are strong.
And you’re going to feel stronger from here.
Services
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Couples Therapy
Remember those warm feelings and those optimistic thoughts of “I can really do life with this person” and “We’re so on the same page!” and “We just get each other” or even “Life with them is better than the alternative” that you had when you were starting your journey together? I’ll help you intentionally build the relationship that you knew you had the potential for while helping you honor where you are in your lives now.
You can have a partnership that’s more joy than drain.
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Therapy for Mamas
Do you ever feel like you’re carrying it all? That you need to keep it together, figure it out, plan ahead, and create a safe emotional space for your household that sometimes it feels like you’re juggling while riding a unicycle? Mama, I see you. I’ll hold a space for you to grow, for you to process, with honesty, and without judgment. For moms at the beginning of your journey or moms who’ve been at it for a while, I’ll help you grow your belief that you are exactly who your child needs and you have everything it takes to do this.
Nurture the nurturer.
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Let's Get Stuff Done
Are you wanting to get motivated, activate positive behaviors, and create healthy patterns but aren’t sure how to start? Is there something that you’ve been thinking about doing or a way that you want to grow but feel stuck in the “thinking about it” phase? Maybe you’re unhappy with how things are right now but aren’t sure what to do next. I’ll help you treat yourself with compassion, understand your authentic goals, take steps forward, and get stuff done.
You got this.
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CBT
Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) provides a framework that has been proven by research to help you think about your stressors in a clearer and more effective way so that you can experience your life feeling more confident and hopeful. I’ll teach you how to hold a compassionate space for yourself, develop practical tools to shape how you think, and activate healthy and empowering behaviors so that you feel better.
Grow a sense of balance and inner-strength like you haven’t felt before.
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EMDR / Trauma Therapy
Through EMDR, I use your brain’s naturally-wired ability to heal to help you move through the things that are getting in the way of you feeling strong, safe, and capable so that you can process the traumatic memories of your past and see yourself as the resilient and valuable person that you are. In addition for being effective to treat PTSD, EMDR helps with anxiety, depression, and feeling stuck.
Healing is within reach.
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Meet Your Therapist
I’m an individual and couples counselor, born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. I offer EMDR, CBT, and couples therapy services to help my clients repair emotional wounds, grow their inner-strength, and learn how to believe in their resilience. I partner with my clients to create healing through anxiety, depression, self-doubt, trauma, life transitions, and relationship challenges.
As a multicultural woman, I’m passionate about creating a safe and welcoming space where all people, especially BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) and AAPI (Asian American Pacific Islander) clients, mamas, LGBTQIA+ clients, and immigrants and children of immigrants can uncover, develop, and nurture the best version of themselves.
I also help couples, both straight and LGBTQIA+, and culturally, spiritually, ideologically, and ethnically diverse, develop tools and awareness to improve their relationship, especially when navigating transitions, such as adjusting to a baby, raising a young child or children, or taking whatever “next step” is on the horizon for them as a couple or individual. Whether they desire to strengthen their connection and grow together as a couple, or mindfully and compassionately separate, I collaborate with them to help them develop a sense of healing, kindness, and empowerment as partners and individuals.
Testimonials
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"Couples therapy helped us feel like we’re on the same team again."
“When we started therapy with Larissa, we just weren’t on the same page. We wanted better for our relationship but ended up in the same arguments over and over. Larissa helped us be in tune with what we really wanted from each other, communicate better, really listen to each other, and appreciate each other. Couples therapy helped us feel like we’re on the same team again.”
-Connected Couple
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"I'm more confident in myself now and excited by my capabilities."
“Before working with Larissa, I often found myself upset and unable to understand why I felt frustration and unable to properly express my thoughts and emotions. I would have bouts of self-doubt because I couldn't understand myself and I would blame myself for problems in my life. Larissa helped me to view things from a more balanced perspective and empowered me to understand it's human to feel sad or angry or emotional at times but also how to avoid remaining in an emotional quagmire. I still get sad or angry at things but I am able to move past those feelings and return to a sense of balance thanks to the tools and lessons Larissa shared with me. I am more confident in myself now and focus more on being excited by my capabilities than I was afraid of my insecurities.”
-Confident Client
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"I don't have to run from it anymore."
“It feels good to be where I am now. I lived so much of my life not wanting to look at my past, but it would sometimes show up at times when I didn’t want it to. I feel like I don’t have to run from it anymore. I know now that my trauma happened and it's a part of who I am, but it’s not me. It didn’t break me.”
-Resilient EMDR Client
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Uncoupling Support "Therapy prepared me for the next chapter of my life..."
“I sought out support from Larissa at the end of my relationship because I wanted her professional guidance through the uncoupling process. Larissa facilitated a calm and respectful space where my former partner and I could be vulnerable and honest with each other. At the end of the process, we both agreed that Larissa had gone above and beyond in providing her support to us. Larissa’s approach to therapy prepared me for the next chapter of my life by helping me to heal and emerge as a stronger person. I felt understood and validated during these couple’s therapy sessions with Larissa, and I am very thankful for that.”
-Healing and Strong Client
