About Parinaz
Parinaz Fard-Aghaie offers a warm, person-focused approach to therapy. She centers work on each person's own story and strengths, helping them face stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, trauma, and low self-esteem. Parinaz is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMHC, practicing in Florida with three years of professional experience.
She uses straightforward, collaborative conversations to identify what feels most urgent. Sessions focus on practical steps people can try between meetings. Parinaz draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to shift unhelpful thinking and on client-centered methods to make space for each person's goals and values.
Background and approach
When trauma is part of the picture, she incorporates EMDR methods alongside narrative ideas to help people reframe painful memories and reduce their emotional hold. She also brings psychodynamic perspectives when exploring long-standing patterns tied to family of origin or attachment struggles. Parinaz works with concerns such as abandonment, codependency, commitment issues, divorce and separation, domestic violence, and family problems.
She also supports people facing immigration stress, financial strain, loneliness, midlife questions, and the search for life purpose. Her style is calm and direct. She helps clients break problems into manageable steps and build skills for everyday life.
The aim is steady progress toward clearer choices and more comfortable day-to-day functioning.
Using Client-Centered and Trauma-Focused Care Online
Parinaz blends client-centered work with targeted trauma approaches to offer clear steps you can use in everyday life. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding your priorities so sessions follow what matters most to you. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify and change thoughts and behaviors that keep stress and anxiety active, often with short exercises to try between meetings.For trauma-related concerns she incorporates EMDR-informed methods and narrative work to help people process difficult memories and reduce their emotional intensity. These approaches aim to make distressing memories feel less overwhelming and to create new, more helpful narratives about past events. Parinaz discusses options with each person and together they pick approaches that fit the client's needs and goals.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to work together. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be simpler when internet bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text-based messaging can be used for brief check-ins, journaling-style work, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep momentum between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English