Patricia Maksoudian , LMFT

Patricia Maksoudian is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 26 years of clinical experience helping individuals and families navigate complex emotional and interpersonal challenges. She focuses on relationship dynamics, family conflict, trauma recovery, and personal growth, guiding clients through communication difficulties, grief work, and the process of healing from past wounds.

Her practice blends a compassionate, holistic stance with extensive experience working with diverse populations. Patricia offers particular support to women, veterans, and families facing issues such as attachment struggles, commitment concerns, and the complexities of blended households. She also addresses intimacy-related problems, stress, anxiety, anger, career transitions, depression, and compassion fatigue.

Grounded in a Christian-informed perspective, Patricia provides a space where exploration of guilt, shame, and forgiveness can be integrated into therapeutic work when clients wish to include faith in their healing. Her therapeutic style emphasizes empathy, collaboration, and practical strategies that help clients build emotional resilience and healthier relationship patterns.

Patricia is dedicated to walking alongside people during major life transitions and emotional challenges, offering steady professional guidance as they pursue meaningful, sustainable change.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Support

Patricia integrates proven relationship and trauma-focused approaches to guide therapy work. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centers on identifying and reshaping emotional patterns within close relationships, helping partners and family members build greater emotional connection and repair after conflict. The Gottman Method offers practical, research-informed tools to improve communication, manage conflict, and strengthen friendship and intimacy in couples.

For clients processing traumatic experiences, Trauma-Focused Therapy provides structured ways to address and reduce the ongoing impact of past harm while supporting safety and recovery. Patricia combines these approaches with a collaborative stance, working with each person to determine which methods align best with their needs, goals, and preferences. This collaborative process allows adjustments over time as therapy progresses.

Online therapy expands access to these approaches through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options offer flexibility for scheduling, reduce travel time, and make it easier to maintain continuity of care during busy or transitional periods. Licensed professionals can adapt EFT, the Gottman Method, and trauma-focused strategies effectively across these remote formats to support meaningful therapeutic progress.