About Adriene
Adriene Faust is a licensed clinical social worker in California with 20 years of experience. She helps people cope with addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, anxiety, depression, and relationship or intimacy-related concerns. She also supports those facing parenting stress, career changes, ADHD, and compassion fatigue.
Adriene aims to treat everyone with respect, sensitivity, and compassion. Adriene uses a practical, person-focused style. She listens first, then tailors conversation and plans to each person’s needs.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear, manageable steps and skills you can use between meetings. The work can include problem-solving, emotion regulation skills, and making values-based choices. Her background includes long clinical practice in California settings across many concerns.
Adriene draws on several evidence-based approaches to match a plan to what you want to achieve. She frames therapy as a partnership where goals are clear and progress is tracked. People often come for help after a crisis or when old ways stop working.
Adriene supports them through grief, trauma recovery, and addictive behavior change by combining coping skills with attention to relationships and values. She invites clients to set achievable goals and practice new habits. Sessions are paced to the individual.
Adriene emphasizes small steps that build confidence and momentum. She aims to empower people to make lasting changes and find more balance in daily life.
How Adriene’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps in that direction. It’s useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes by teaching practical actions tied to personal values.Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on understanding how early relationships shape current patterns. In sessions it can help people notice how they connect with others and practice safer, more helpful ways of relating when intimacy or trust is difficult.
Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. Adriene will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then suggest methods that fit those aims. If something doesn’t feel like a good match, she will adjust the plan together with the client.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls approximate an in-person session and support detailed conversation and exercises. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging allow for quick coping strategies, ongoing support, and flexibility between scheduled talks.
These options give people a range of ways to work on coping skills, relationship patterns, and values-driven goals while balancing work, caregiving, and other demands.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- 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