About Mazda
Mazda Lakpour is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who helps people manage anxiety, stress, and major life changes. He works with adults on mood concerns, addiction issues, relationship friction, and building stronger self-esteem. Mazda speaks English and Persian and practices in California as an LMFT.
Mazda uses straightforward, practical methods in session. He draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to challenge unhelpful thoughts. He also uses solution-focused work to set clear goals and hypnotherapy and mindfulness tools for managing intense feelings and stress.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to focus on concrete steps a person can take between meetings. Clients often leave with short exercises, breathing practices, or simple behavior changes to try at home. The emphasis is on small, steady progress rather than overnight fixes.
Over 14 years Mazda has worked with a range of concerns including grief, trauma and abuse, intimacy and parenting strains, communication problems, workplace stress, and compassion fatigue. He also supports people dealing with bipolar disorder and depression alongside other challenges. Mazda frames therapy as collaborative problem solving.
He helps people identify priorities, try different strategies, and adjust as needed. The goal is clearer thinking, calmer responses, and better day-to-day functioning.
Approaches that translate well to online sessions
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on noticing unhelpful thoughts and testing them with concrete experiments. It helps people reduce anxiety and change behaviors that keep problems going. Hypnotherapy uses guided relaxation and focused imagery to access deeper concentration and reduce strong reactions; it can support stress reduction and managing cravings or intense emotions.Mazda approaches treatment as a collaborative process. He will work with each person to choose methods that match their goals and preferences, adjusting techniques over time. Finding the right mix of CBT, solution-focused steps, mindfulness, or hypnotherapy is part of the work together rather than a one-time choice.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is low, and live chat or text messaging support brief check-ins and between-session coaching. These options let people use therapy around work, family, or travel while keeping continuity of care.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Persian
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