Octavia Fukino , LMFT, LPCC

Octavia Fukino is a licensed therapist with training and clinical experience focused on trauma, relationships, and substance use. She holds credentials as an LMFT and an LPCC - LMFT indicates a license to practice as a marriage and family therapist and LPCC indicates a license to practice as a professional clinical counselor. She completed a Bachelor of Arts at UCLA in 1990 and earned a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology from Argosy University in 2013. She brings more than 7 years of clinical experience to her work, including four years of pre-license practice and four years after licensing.

Octavia’s clinical interests center on trauma and abuse, grief, anxiety and stress, addictions, and relationship and family issues. She also works with clients on parenting, intimacy-related concerns, self-esteem, bipolar and depressive symptoms, and navigating major life changes. Additional focus areas include attachment and abandonment issues, adoption and foster care, codependency, dissociation, and sexual assault and abuse. Her approach integrates attention to attachment patterns and the impact of past losses and betrayals on present relationships.

Before the COVID-19 pandemic her primary work was in-person private practice, where building warmth and trust in the therapeutic relationship was central. As practice shifted to telehealth, she found that strong therapeutic connection can be maintained through remote sessions and that virtual care can offer important convenience for clients who prefer not to travel. Octavia is fluent in English and Romanian, and she draws on her personal and professional journey to support people working through trauma, grief, and relational wounds.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Octavia uses approaches that address the effects of early bonds and traumatic experiences in everyday relationships. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early attachment patterns shape current relationships - it helps people understand recurring relationship dynamics, fears of abandonment, and trust issues. EMDR - Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing - is a therapy often used for processing traumatic memories and reducing the emotional intensity tied to those memories. Trauma-Focused Therapy concentrates on the specific impacts of trauma and supports practical coping strategies while helping clients reclaim a sense of safety and stability.

Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process and happens collaboratively. Octavia works with clients to identify which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences and adapts treatment as progress unfolds.

Online therapy with Octavia is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, which can make regular care more manageable around busy schedules and reduce travel time. These options provide flexibility and allow clients to access licensed professionals from locations that work best for them.