About Larissa
Larissa Childers is a licensed marriage and family therapist who focuses on helping people navigate anxiety and stress. She brings four years of clinical experience and aims to make the first steps toward change feel manageable and clear. She creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk about painful experiences.
That includes work on trauma and abuse, grief and loss, and low mood. Conversations center on what is happening now and what changes would feel most helpful.
Background and approach
Larissa pays attention to how everyday life and relationships affect mental health. She supports people working through panic, social anxiety, and mood disorders. She also helps clients facing life transitions such as divorce or major changes in role and routine.
Practical problems like communication breakdowns, body image concerns, or feelings of isolation are addressed directly. She helps clients develop clearer boundaries, self-compassion, and coping strategies for stressful moments. Sessions typically focus on small, achievable steps between meetings.
Therapy with Larissa is collaborative. She encourages questions and adjusts the pace to fit each person. Sessions are offered from California and conducted in English via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Approaches for anxiety and trauma in online care
Larissa uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on present-day problems and skills. One common approach emphasizes identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors to reduce anxiety and improve mood; it helps with panic, social anxiety, and depressive symptoms. Another approach centers on processing difficult experiences and building coping strategies for trauma and loss, helping clients feel less overwhelmed by memories or reactions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Larissa will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, then choose methods together and adjust them over time. The process is collaborative and paced to what feels manageable for the client.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let the therapist and client meet face to face when a longer conversation is needed. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a client prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins and ongoing encouragement between longer sessions, making it easier to fit therapy into a busy week.
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- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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