About Larisa
Larisa Citsay is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who has practiced for 10 years in New Jersey. She began her career working in crisis intervention and moved into counseling that focuses on helping people navigate stressful life moments. Larisa works with adults on anxiety, stress, relationships, parenting concerns, anger, and self-esteem issues.
She uses a blend of practical methods to help people notice what is keeping them stuck and try new ways of coping.
Background and approach
Sessions often include simple tools from cognitive behavioral ideas and mindfulness exercises to manage anxious thoughts and intense feelings. She also draws on motivational techniques to help people find their own reasons to change. Larisa pays attention to how family patterns and communication affect current problems.
She helps clients set healthier boundaries, handle control and codependency issues, and repair or reframe relationship patterns. She also supports people dealing with commitment concerns and challenges tied to narcissistic dynamics. Her style is direct but compassionate.
She aims to make sessions focused and goal-oriented so people leave with concrete next steps. She works with parents who need coaching around tween and teen issues and with young adults facing life direction questions. Larisa asks practical questions and offers worksheets or short exercises clients can use between sessions.
Her goal is to build resilience and stronger self-regard so clients can make steady, manageable changes in daily life.
Approaches that meet you where you are online
Larisa draws from evidence-based techniques that help with anxious thinking and daily struggles. Cognitive behavioral methods focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavioral changes to reduce anxiety and stress. Mindfulness-based practices teach simple attention and breathing exercises to calm the body and notice feelings without automatically reacting. Motivational techniques help people clarify personal goals and find reasons to stick with changes, which can be useful for parenting shifts or breaking codependent patterns.Choosing the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then try strategies that fit. If something isn’t helping, adjustments are made so the work stays practical and relevant.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for conversation and exercises that benefit from face-to-face interaction. Phone sessions can be a lighter option when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messages are helpful for quick check-ins, brief coaching, and when a shorter touchpoint fits into a busy day. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, and family schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Anger management
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Life purpose
- Narcissism
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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