Services
Executive Therapy
I help leaders navigate their inner world and their external impact so they can be more effective in how they lead, show up as healthier and more aligned in their leadership, support their own well-being, feel more regulated, break old patterns and lead from a place of insight and intention, transform their inner landscape and the cultures they shape, allow their leadership to reflect their healing rather than their stress, and feel balanced, creative, and empowered in how they lead.
I believe leadership begins with knowing yourself. How we are shaped in childhood, refined through experience, and reflected in the cultures we help create influences how we show up every day. I work with leaders to explore their developmental histories, trauma, identity, emotional patterns, and relational dynamics so they can lead with greater authenticity, clarity, and compassion. When leaders heal, cultures transform — creating a life and environments where you feel safe, supported, and able to thrive.
Workplace Consultant
I provide preventive care, maintenance, and crisis support for companies — strengthening people, culture, and operational foundations. I collaborate with founders, executives, people managers, and HR teams to build workplaces that are healthy, equitable, and high-performing.
With 25+ years of experience in creative, boutique, and founder-led environments, I bring a unique blend of practical HR expertise and mental health–informed insight. I support organizations by designing systems that ensure clarity, accountability, fairness, and psychological safety.
Consulting services include:
Performance review frameworks and implementation
Compensation design and leveling
Organization chart development and role clarity
Onboarding programs that set employees up for success
Offboarding processes that are respectful and compliant
Employee relations support and manager coaching
Culture-building strategies rooted in well-being and inclusion
Policy development, handbooks, and operational infrastructure
Conflict resolution and crisis management
Preventative practices that reduce burnout and improve workplace health
I create environments where individuals feel valued and empowered — where mental health is supported at every level, and where the culture reflects the organization’s values in action. Because when work works better, life works better.
Bio
I blend the personal and the professional — drawing from my multicultural upbringing in a large family, 20+ years in HR leadership, a career working with founders and creatives, and recent academic studies in mental health counseling at Northwestern University.
Book
You’re Doing It: Stages of Becoming
By Britta Larsen
Book Launch | 2026
How do we become who we are? What forces—family, school, friendships, love, work, identity, and loss—shape our development and sense of self? You’re Doing It: Stages of Becoming is a deeply personal exploration of these questions, merging memoir with psychoeducation and reflecting on my first fifty years of life. Inspired by my graduate studies in Mental Health Counseling at Northwestern University (Class of ’25), my favorite course, Human Growth & Development, and my ongoing quest to understand my habits, abuse, addictions, coping and defense mechanisms, and sense of purpose, each chapter explores a stage of life through Erik Erikson’s psychosocial development theory, woven into the fabric of my own lived experience.
From Yale to Jail
Somewhere in the middle.
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.”
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.
Articles & Speaking Highlights
“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