Adriene Faust, LCSW

Adriene Faust is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in California with 20 years of professional experience. She helps people who are facing addiction, trauma, grief, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy concerns, and codependency. She also supports clients dealing with stress, parenting strain, career questions, and chronic health or caregiving challenges.

She favors straightforward conversation in sessions. Adriene listens to what matters most and then works with each person to set clear, manageable goals. Sessions focus on practical skills as well as understanding how past patterns influence present choices. She uses a mix of approaches so people can try different ways of coping and see what helps.

Her work includes methods drawn from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Attachment-Based techniques. That means attention to values and behavior, noticing unhelpful thinking, and looking at relationship patterns that shape how people connect. She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy and client-centered practices when those fit the problem.

Adriene has spent two decades in clinical settings and community work in California. That experience includes helping people with substance use and domestic violence recovery, grief, and parenting struggles. She aims to help people build clearer boundaries and stronger day-to-day skills for managing emotions and relationships.

If someone is unsure where to start, Adriene invites them to describe their current priorities and what they hope would be different. From there she helps plan the first practical steps and checks in about progress as therapy continues.

How Adriene’s approaches translate to online work