Sofia Larraz, LCSW

Sofia Larraz is a Florida-based licensed therapist with 40 years of professional experience supporting people through addiction, relationship strain, family conflict, parenting challenges, and major life transitions. She brings a compassionate and respectful approach to each session, tailoring conversations and treatment plans to meet the unique needs of the individual or family she works with. As an LCSW, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, she combines clinical training with practical strategies to help clients build coping skills and pursue more fulfilling lives.

Sofia works with a broad range of concerns including stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy issues, self-esteem, and mood disorders such as depression and bipolar disorder. She also addresses life-stage and role-based challenges like midlife transitions, career concerns, parenting, and caregiving fatigue. Her additional focus areas include attachment and communication problems, control issues, forgiveness, and multicultural or women’s issues.

Committed to a collaborative therapeutic relationship, Sofia emphasizes sensitivity and individualized care. She encourages the courage it takes to seek change and offers steady support as clients work toward greater well-being, clearer goals, and healthier relationships.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care with Sofia Larraz

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on creating a respectful, nonjudgmental environment where the client’s experience guides the pace and goals of treatment. This approach helps people build self-awareness, strengthen self-esteem, and navigate life changes by centering their values and personal resources. The Gottman Method is a structured approach to relationship work that emphasizes improving communication, managing conflict, and rebuilding trust - it is often used for couples dealing with recurring disputes, intimacy concerns, or connection challenges.

Finding the right method is part of the therapeutic process. Sofia collaborates with each person to identify which approach or combination of approaches best matches their needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting the plan as progress unfolds.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility - sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit busy lives and varied comfort levels. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care, attend sessions from different locations, and choose the format that feels most effective for work on relationship, addiction, mood, or life transition concerns while working with licensed professionals and therapists.