About Larissa
Larissa Rzemienski is a Licensed Professional Counselor who aims to help people cope with stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and major life changes. She writes plainly and listens closely to understand what matters to each person. Larissa draws on two decades of counseling experience to offer steady, practical support.
She uses straightforward talk, goal-setting, and skill practice to help people manage overwhelming emotions. Sessions often focus on small steps that build better sleep, healthier habits, and clearer communication.
Background and approach
She also helps clients facing addiction, ADHD, body-image concerns, caregiving strain, and relationship or intimacy issues. Larissa trained at Arizona State University and holds a Master of Counseling and an Education Specialist degree in Educational Leadership. She has worked as a suicide hotline supervisor, a probation counselor, a high school guidance counselor, and a telehealth counselor.
She also teaches Master of Counseling students and leads yoga classes. Her style blends Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based approaches, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy. The approach is chosen to match each person's goals and daily needs rather than following a single method.
Larissa has provided virtual counseling for several years and prefers practical tools that fit into busy lives. She lives in Arizona and brings a calm, direct manner to sessions. People who want clear strategies and steady encouragement may find her approach helpful.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify their values and take small actions that match those values. It is useful for anxiety, low motivation, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and trying different behaviors to change mood and habits; it often helps with depression, sleep problems, and anxiety. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and can guide people working on intimacy and communication issues.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Larissa will discuss goals and preferences and try methods that fit each person's life. She adapts techniques based on what is helpful, shifting between skill practice, values work, and relationship-focused conversations as needed.
Online sessions give practical options for busy schedules. Video calls let therapists observe expressions and coach skills in the moment. Phone sessions work when a lighter bandwidth option is needed or when being off-camera feels easier. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, homework support, or steady encouragement between longer sessions. These formats make it easier to keep therapy consistent while balancing work, school, and family demands.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English