Larisa Blum, MFT

I have been working with Larisa for over a year now and am so grateful to have found her. She is kind, compassionate, insightful and empathetic. She radiates a warmth and calm that leaves me feeling more centered and at peace, simply by being in her presence. She has helped me learn and grow more in the past year than I have at any other time in my life. Larisa is truly special and I can’t recommend her highly enough!

Wow. Just wow. She eventually left me a voicemail and then goes on to write me here after leaving me a voicemail that basically admitted she did not return the call in a timely manner. So unprofessional. You dropped the ball, and you know it, Ms. Blum.

LARISA!
Larisa is a really great person…
Emphatic, and really caring about her patients.
What i can say of an analyst… after a while they become your friends… she helped me get through a lot and seeing better through myself.
Is really a person you can be yourself and not ashamed of anything with.
Just go, talk it out, see where it goes.
To me it went well :) Peace :)

I started seeing Larisa shortly after my dad died, a couple years ago now. (wow!) Larisa was my grief companion, my sounding board, my «space-​holder,» and a lovingly skilled practitioner of the therapeutic arts. As a long-​standing client, I can recommend Larisa with heart and mind.
Larisa brings both her humanity and skill to the therapeutic relationship. To me this is the striking and beautiful aspect to our professional relationship. I respect Larisa’s commitment to her practice and I have been lucky to experience with her deep levels of humanity, intimacy, and human engagement.
I am deeply thankful that Larisa is the person who she is and that I have had her support in my life.

Larisa is a sensitive, perceptive and empathic therapist who uses her big heart and wise mind in the service of helping clients heal from past hurts, grow more fully into themselves, all the while supporting them in accepting and honoring who they are and where they are in their life process. She has a thorough understanding of the somatic modalities she employs, and a knack for explaining (sometimes complex) psychological concepts in simple terms, which help her clients to more easily regulate themselves and find emotional fulfillment. I would recommend her wholeheartedly to anyone seeking individual or couples psychotherapy.

I was co-​leading a therapy group for 6 months with Larisa and I have seen her work first hand.
Larisa is one of the best therapists I have met. Compassionate and wise. Accurate and deep.
Larisa embodied presence is caring and loving, honest and sincere. She gives her clients deep heartfelt care and support, while knowing how to challenge when needed.
I highly recommend her as a therapist!

For five years I was in a women’s therapy group in which Larisa was the longest standing member. She served informally as the peer-​facilitator and definitely was the barometer of integrity for the group. She has an almost magical ability to pick up on, almost by osmosis, what is going on beneath the surface with someone. She is able to imaginatively reach this understanding by staying in close touch with her body, listening for what comes up and presenting it in a non-​threatening, empowering, but uncompromising way that creates a safe space for hard conversations to flower. Over and over again I saw her pull insights out of her hat that helped many of us come at problems from new angles that helped us «unstick». She was definitely the most respected member of our group by the the many participants over the years, and taught many of us — by example and with support — how to stay with our truths and how to represent our needs.
She was absolutely born to be a therapist. Don’t be fooled by her youthfulness. As a mid-​life career changer, she is staring practice with lots of life experience and cosmic explorations under her belt and a seasoned point of view. Her warmth is balanced by a rigorous mind, thanks to her former training as an attorney, and a centeredness. She’s kind of the ultimate mind-​body practitioner. Also, funny — her Russian heritage gives her a sardonic edge and humor that I like a lot.
I have never had her an an individual therapist but I can recommend her wholeheartedly. There is something right happening in the universe that she is finally starting practice. Her clients will be getting one hell of a deal.