About Octavia
Octavia Fukino is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) and a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) based in California. She draws on seven years of counseling experience to help people facing trauma, grief, anxiety, depression, and struggles with addiction.
Background and approach
Octavia speaks English and Romanian and aims to make first steps toward help feel manageable and clear. She uses straightforward conversation to build safety and trust.
Sessions focus on the issues a person brings - like relationship pain, parenting strain, or feelings of abandonment - and on practical steps to cope day to day. Octavia believes small changes in how people relate to themselves and others can create steady improvement.
Her work often centers on attachment concerns and trauma. She combines client-centered listening with tools from cognitive behavioral approaches to identify unhelpful patterns and try new ways of thinking and behaving.
When trauma is part of the story, she offers trauma-focused methods and EMDR-informed approaches to reduce intense memories and reactions. Octavia’s path into counseling included raising two adopted children and navigating the end of a long marriage, experiences that shaped her interest in attachment, codependency, and grief.
She describes therapy as a collaborative process where the therapist and client learn what helps and adjust the plan as needed. Practical options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging.
She supports clients who want to work through life changes, relationship wounds, and emotional overwhelm with steady, experience-based care.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Octavia draws on attachment-based work to look at how early relationships shape current connections and trust. This approach helps when people feel stuck in repeating patterns of closeness or withdrawal and want to build more supported ways of relating.She also uses trauma-focused therapy and EMDR-informed methods to address painful memories and strong emotional reactions. These approaches aim to reduce the intensity of traumatic memories and teach skills for grounding and managing distressing symptoms.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to a person's history, goals, and preferences, then try methods that fit those needs. If something does not help, the plan is adjusted together until a better fit is found.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people see facial expressions and use therapeutic exercises together, while phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging allow shorter, more frequent touchpoints during busy days. These options make it easier to schedule regular work on relationship wounds, trauma recovery, grief, and daily coping without extra travel.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Stress, Anxiety
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Romanian