About Kalene
Kalene McSwain-Faulkner is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, trauma, depression, and struggles with self-esteem. She brings nine years of practice as a social worker and clinical clinician to her work. Kalene is comfortable speaking English and Spanish and accepts international clients.
She provides therapy through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. She frames therapy as a process that takes time and collaboration.
Background and approach
Kalene emphasizes practical steps that feel like small alignments rather than total change. She mixes coaching energy with therapy, using the client’s strengths and feedback to guide the work. Clients can expect a supportive, goal-minded style that invites honesty and active participation.
Her approach draws on several grounded methods. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to notice and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify values and take small, meaningful steps toward those values.
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how relationships and early patterns influence current reactions. Kalene also brings experience from military service and broad clinical work across many backgrounds. She keeps learning through continuing education and is currently completing doctoral research.
That combination of practical experience and ongoing study shapes how she plans sessions and sets goals with each person. In sessions she listens first, reflects what she hears, and helps clients try new options. Her aim is not to give answers but to help people use what they already have in clearer ways.
Therapy can include short-term coaching-type work or longer exploration depending on the person’s needs.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Kalene uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot patterns in thoughts and behaviors and then try different choices to reduce distress and improve daily functioning. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is also part of her work and helps people name what matters to them, accept difficult feelings, and take small steps toward those values.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. She will listen to goals and preferences, explain options, and adjust methods based on what feels useful. Clients and therapist together track progress and change course when something is not working.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls let people work face-to-face from a distance. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat or text messaging can be used for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These formats offer flexibility for scheduling, reduce travel time, and make it easier to keep therapy consistent when life is busy.
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Georgia, Tennessee
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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