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, 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).
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.
“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