Sophia Hoskins
Focused marriage and family therapist
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed in
- Hawaii
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Sophia
Sophia Hoskins is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) who uses practical, goal-focused approaches to help families and individuals facing stress and relationship struggles. She emphasizes clear steps clients can try between sessions and focuses on improving day-to-day functioning. Sophia draws on methods that aim to change patterns in thinking, feeling, and interaction so families can find steadier ground.
She has practiced in Hawaii since 2008 and brings 13 years of experience working in varied settings.
Background and approach
Her work has included helping people with anxiety, depression, bipolar mood challenges, grief, addiction, anger, and sleep problems. She also supports clients dealing with trauma and intimacy-related issues and assists with career and self-esteem concerns. Sophia has spent significant time working with military populations both overseas and in the United States, addressing trauma, deployment stress, reintegration, anger, and relationship concerns.
That background informs her practical focus and familiarity with life transitions and high-stress environments. Outside of clinical work she has long participated in outdoor sports such as surfing, snowboarding, mountain biking, and horseback riding. In recent years she has worked with athletes to improve both physical and mental performance toward specific goals.
Those experiences shape her interest in peak performance and goal-oriented strategies. Her approach blends techniques that address thoughts and behaviors, relationship patterns, and meaning-making, while also offering brief, solution-focused tools for immediate relief. Sophia aims to partner with clients to set clear goals and track progress session by session.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Sophia commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy in her work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing practical behavioral changes to reduce symptoms like anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and stress. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centers on emotional patterns in relationships and helps partners or family members change how they connect and respond to one another to reduce conflict and increase closeness.She also draws on Existential ideas when people are asking big questions about meaning, purpose, or life transitions. That approach helps clarify values and priorities so goals become clearer and more motivating.
Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then try methods that fit the situation. Adjustments are made as progress is tracked so clients and therapist find the best fit together.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy family schedules, allow consistent contact when travel or relocation occurs, and support ongoing work between sessions. Licensed professionals can use these formats to teach skills, coach through conversations, and check progress over time.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
Attends to the emotions underneath a recurring argument or distance, and to the attachment needs driving them. Often used where a relationship keeps returning to the same painful loop.
Existential Therapy
Takes the larger questions seriously: meaning, choice, mortality, responsibility. Suited to periods when the difficulty is less a symptom than a sense that something has to change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Hawaii
- Languages
- English
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