About Adriene
Adriene Faust is a licensed clinical social worker with 20 years of experience helping people navigate hard moments. She supports clients facing addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, anxiety, depression, bipolar concerns, relationship and intimacy-related issues, and stress. She also helps with parenting, self-esteem, career challenges, ADHD, and compassion fatigue.
Adriene uses straightforward conversation and a personalized plan for each person. She listens closely and adjusts her approach to match what a client needs.
How Adriene works
Sessions focus on practical skills and clearer thinking so people can handle day-to-day challenges better. Her work draws on several evidence-based approaches, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Client-Centered Therapy. She blends techniques to address emotional patterns, behavior changes, and coping strategies.
The result is a mix of skills training, values clarification, and empathic support. Adriene also has experience with family-related stress such as adoption and foster care issues, blended family transitions, caregiver strain, and communication or control problems. She helps people manage chronic illness, pain, cancer-related stress, and the fallout from natural or human-caused disasters.
People reach out to Adriene when they want clear tools and steady support during major life changes. She encourages small, doable steps and works alongside clients as they build new habits and stronger coping skills.
Adriene lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Adriene works with
The areas below are the ones Adriene selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches that translate to online care
Adriene often draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and then take action guided by personal values. This approach can help with anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and replace them with more effective habits. CBT is practical for issues like stress, sleep problems, eating concerns, and mood disorders. Finding the right approach is part of the work. Adriene collaborates with each person to choose and adapt methods that match their goals, daily routines, and preferences. She checks in regularly and adjusts the plan when something isn’t working. Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper discussion, while phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or during a short break at work. Live chat and text-based messaging provide a lower-intensity option for quick check-ins, journaling support, or when typing feels easier than talking. These formats offer flexibility so people can keep momentum even when schedules are tight.Start online instead of waiting
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