Adriene Faust , LCSW

Adriene Faust is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 20 years of experience helping people navigate addiction, trauma, grief, anxiety, depression, and relationship or intimacy concerns. She supports people facing stress, parenting strain, career shifts, ADHD, and issues related to sexual orientation. Adriene focuses on practical steps that people can use between sessions to feel steadier day to day.

Adriene aims for warm, respectful conversations. She listens first and then helps build a plan that fits each person's life. Sessions emphasize clear goals, small experiments, and skills you can practice. She adapts tone and pace to match what a person needs in the moment.

Her work draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Attachment-Based principles. That means Adriene helps people notice unhelpful thoughts, clarify values, and repair connection patterns with others. She also uses elements of Dialectical Behavior Therapy and solution-focused strategies when a different tool is useful.

Clients often come wanting help with substance use, family stress, grief, or mood and anxiety struggles. Adriene also supports people dealing with chronic illness, caregiving burden, codependency, divorce, or challenges after adoption and foster care situations. She frames these concerns in everyday terms and breaks them into manageable steps.

Adriene practices in California and conducts sessions in English. She works collaboratively to set goals and checks in regularly to adjust the plan. The work is paced to what each person can handle while aiming for steady, practical change.

Approaches that guide online sessions

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and take small actions that match those values rather than getting stuck in unhelpful thoughts. It is often useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on spotting thought and behavior patterns that make problems worse and practicing different ways of thinking or acting to reduce symptoms and improve mood. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and current relationships shape how people connect and helps repair patterns that cause pain or distance.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Adriene will talk with each person about goals and preferences and use that discussion to pick methods that fit. She combines approaches when needed and adjusts the plan as progress is made, so the process stays collaborative and goal-oriented.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video is useful when visual cues matter, phone works well for lower bandwidth or a shorter check-in, and messaging can support brief updates or skills practice between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, support people in different locations, and allow continued work during life changes.