About Octavia
Octavia Fukino is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) and a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) practicing in California. She has seven years of counseling experience and speaks English and Romanian. Octavia aims to connect with people who are dealing with anxiety, trauma, grief, relationship strain, or struggles with addiction.
She uses straightforward, talk-based sessions to build trust and safety. Octavia often focuses on attachment and relationship patterns so people can understand how past hurts affect present life.
Background and approach
She also draws from cognitive-behavioral tools to help with overwhelming thoughts and behaviors. Her background includes a bachelor’s degree from UCLA and a master’s degree in counseling psychology from Argosy University. Octavia spent years in independent practice and shifted more to telehealth after the pandemic, finding that therapeutic connection can continue well online.
Octavia speaks from lived experience as well as professional training. She raised two adopted children and navigated a painful divorce, which shaped her interest in attachment, codependency, and grief work. That personal perspective informs how she listens and responds in sessions.
In therapy she helps people name difficult feelings, spot patterns that cause pain, and try small changes that feel doable. Sessions are collaborative and paced to what the person needs. Octavia emphasizes practical steps alongside understanding and emotional healing.
How attachment and trauma work translates to online therapy
Octavia uses Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. That approach helps people notice ways they seek closeness or push others away and can be useful for anxiety and relationship strain. She also draws on Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing as a trauma-focused method to help people process distressing memories and reduce their emotional intensity.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work together with each person to identify goals, try methods that match those goals, and adjust plans based on what helps most. Clients decide the pace and focus while the therapist offers options and guidance.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation when people prefer that connection. Phone calls are useful when bandwidth or camera use is limited, while chat and messaging suit quick check-ins or shorter exchanges. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue care from different locations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
Also listed
- 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
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