Larissa Rzemienski

Larissa Rzemienski is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people navigating stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and relationship and parenting concerns. She welcomes straightforward conversations and practical steps that fit into a busy life. Larissa writes plainly and listens for what matters most to each person she meets.

Larissa has worked in counseling for 22 years and brings a mix of school, community, and telehealth experience. Her background includes time as a suicide hotline supervisor, a probation counselor, a high school guidance counselor, and roles providing telehealth services to teens and adults. She also teaches graduate counseling students and works as a yoga instructor.

Her sessions combine several familiar approaches so the work matches the client. Larissa uses client-centered methods to build trust, cognitive behavioral techniques to tackle unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and mindfulness-based ideas to build calm and focus. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and attachment-focused strategies also inform her work when those fits make sense.

She has provided virtual counseling for several years and says telehealth can make it easier to bring therapy into daily routines. Larissa lives in Phoenix, Arizona, and holds a Master of Counseling and an Education Specialist degree, alongside an MBA.

She aims to create clear, manageable steps for people facing life transitions, addiction concerns, trauma, or caregiving stress. Her style is practical and collaborative, with attention to values, relationships, and small changes that add up.

How Mindfulness and ACT Shape Online Sessions

Mindfulness-based work focuses on paying attention to the present moment in a gentle way. It helps people notice stress responses, calm the body, and build steady habits for sleep, eating, and emotion regulation.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, centers on clarifying values and taking committed steps toward them even when painful thoughts or feelings show up. That approach is useful for anxiety, depression, grief, and life transitions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and current relationship patterns affect closeness, communication, and trust, which can help with intimacy and relationship concerns.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss each method and tailor a plan based on a person's goals, preferences, and what seems to help in early sessions. This collaboration means techniques can change as progress is made.

Larissa has several years of telehealth experience and has used messaging, phone, and video in past practice. Confirm the exact session options when you book. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a routine, reduce travel time, allow shorter check-ins on busy days, and let people join from different locations without rearranging schedules.