About Adriene
Adriene Faust is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 20 years of experience helping people manage anxiety, stress, addiction, grief, and trauma. She speaks plainly and listens closely to understand what each person needs. Her aim is to offer steady support while people take steps toward more manageable days and clearer priorities.
Adriene keeps conversation focused and practical. She works with people to set small, achievable goals. Sessions often include tools for coping with intense feelings and ways to handle everyday challenges.
Background and approach
She adapts the pace to each person's comfort level and goals. Her background in social work includes two decades of clinical practice in California. That experience spans work with complicated loss, substance use concerns, chronic stress, and relationship strain.
Adriene draws on a range of clinical approaches to match the problem at hand rather than relying on a single method. In sessions she emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and practical steps. She helps people build routines that improve sleep, reduce worry, and strengthen relationships.
The focus is on skills people can use between meetings to make steady progress. Adriene supports people who are navigating major life changes, caregiving stress, health challenges, or workplace pressure. She also addresses attachment patterns and difficulties with intimacy.
Conversations center on what matters most to the person and how to move forward one step at a time.
Approaches that guide online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify their values and take small actions that matter to them, even when anxiety or fear is present. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce worry and improve mood. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and helps people build more supported ways of connecting and communicating.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Adriene will work together with each person to choose methods that match their goals, pace, and life situation. That collaboration helps shape a plan that fits practical needs as well as emotional ones.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls let people practice skills face to face, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, chat or messaging can fit quick check-ins or ongoing coaching, and various formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. These options give flexibility for different schedules and communication preferences.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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