When work works better, life works better. I help founders, executives and people managers, by improving the employee journey — from candidate to alumni.

Founder, It’s HR Therapy

People • Culture • Wellness

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When work works better,
life works better.

It’s HR Therapy is — the combination of my multicultural upbringing in a large family, a career working with founders and creatives, two decades of HR leadership, and current academic studies in mental health counseling at Northwestern — aiming to provide HR support that fosters healthy employee journeys for everyone, regardless of role, rank, or identity.

When your HR leader values mental health, it’s not just HR — It’s HR Therapy.

2024 was an incredibly rewarding year as I juggled being a full-time grad student while also serving as a full-time HR Executive, while relaunching my consulting practice and developing It’s HR Therapy—a consulting practice focused on mental health in the workplace for leaders and employees.

2024 Courses Completed:
Theories of Counseling & Psychotherapy • Ethics & Legal Issues • Multicultural Counseling • Assessment • Psychodynamic Counseling • Human Growth & Development • Diagnosis in Counseling • Intro & Advanced Counseling Skills • Group Counseling Theory & Practice • 200 hour Practicum

2025 Courses Upcoming:
Addictions Counseling • Skills in Social Justice Advocacy • Family, Martial, & Couples Counseling • Evaluation & Treatment of Trauma Disorder•Research Methods • Intro to Psychopharmacology • Career & Lifestyle Planning • 800 hour Internship

Graduation ~ December 2025!

 
 

It’s HR consulting and coaching is for companies (I have a special place in my heart for founder-led companies having spent a career with them) who care about their people, culture and ambitions.

I leverage HR tools and resources, over 20 years of experience at creative founder-led boutique companies to assist founders, executives, and people managers in enhancing the employee journey, from candidate to alumni.

I am an advocate for every employee, from interns to founders.

 
 

~ Launching March 2026 ~

It’s Therapy is for founders, executives, and people managers. By helping them, it can positively impact their direct reports, teams, and overall company culture.

I am currently pursuing a graduate degree in mental health counseling with a focus on multiculturalism and social justice at Northwestern University (Class of '25).

My goal is to combine my HR expertise with my clinical therapy practice and my undergraduate degree in Business with a concentration in Organizational Behavior at Boston University to more effectively support workplaces, their people, and their cultures.

I am excited to become an even stronger advocate for people at work and of all levels by incorporating greater mental health support.

 

Britta’s Salary Story on Refinery 29!

In Refinary 29 Salary Stories, women with long-term career experience open up about the most intimate details of their jobs: compensation. It’s an honest look at how real people navigate the complicated world of negotiating, raises, promotions, and job loss, with the hope it will give young women more insight into how to advocate for themselves — and maybe take a few risks along the way.

 
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“Because of the last few years, I’ve seen an increase in mental health challenges with employees and how much that has affected them at work, so this year, I was inspired to go back to grad school and study mental health counseling in order to understand better with the lens of what that means for people at work.”—Britta Larsen, VP of people operations and culture at Bespoke Post

My Family. ItsaLarsen.

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We received a lot of attention as our family grew — we were both admired and glared at as we navigated a world that struggled to understand how we came together as a family.

A Family of Many Colors

The Boston Globe - June 4, 1981

“In their courting days, they baby-sat together. Four years later, when they still hadn’t conceived a child, they adopted a 3-week-old black American boy… His adoption was followed by a mixed-race American boy… and well before the much publicized Vietnam baby lifting - a half Vietnamese and half black American boy.

Only then did they start having babies — three girls — and in between births, they adopted three more, a Cambodian baby girl… a Vietnamese girl… and El Salvadorian boy with polio. To say Pam and Rikk Larsen love children is an understatement.”

They Built An American Family

Parade Magazine - May 12, 1996

“Please don’t make us sound perfect,” Pam Larsen asked when I arrived at her home in Cambridge, Mass. “That just distances us from other people and makes them think that they can’t do what we’ve done. We have problems just like any family, but we hope our story will make other people want to do what we did.”

What Pam and her husband, Rikk, did over the last 26 years is simple enough: They built a family. It’s a large family granted, but their spacious home is big enough to handle 10 children. Four by birth, and six adopted from the orphanages of Vietnam, the killing fields of Cambodia, the battlefields of El Salvador and the troubled cities of America.

They started thinking of adoption in 1969… “Why not adopt kids who need homes the most?”

“I don’t think our kids had any conception that our family was any different from anyone else’s,” Pam said. “Although I’ll never forget the day Tage was playing with the kids in a family down the street that had three little redheaded children. He came home and told me ‘Mom, this is the strangest family. They all look alike.” I’m glad we were able to give our kids a diverse family.