About Faizah
Faizah Mawusi is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) in Indiana with 32 years of practice. She uses a person-centered style to help people manage anxiety, depression, and trauma. Her approach is warm and practical, aimed at making therapy understandable and doable for busy lives.
She often combines client-centered work with cognitive behavioral tools to change unhelpful thinking and build new coping skills. Dialectical behavior therapy techniques and mindfulness practices are used when emotions feel overwhelming or when someone needs better ways to regulate stress.
Background and approach
Motivational interviewing supports people trying to change behaviors like substance use or self-harm impulses. Many people come for help with grief, relationship strain, parenting stress, or life transitions. She also supports those facing identity questions, gender dysphoria, and LGBT-related concerns.
Communication problems, family of origin issues, and divorce or separation are common topics in sessions. Mawusi draws on multicultural awareness from long experience to tailor the work to each person’s background and values. Sessions focus on concrete tools - breathing and grounding, thought records, problem-solving, and short behavioral experiments - alongside space to process painful memories.
Her style is collaborative and straightforward. Clients set goals and move at a pace that feels manageable. Practical steps and honest conversation are central to how she helps people regain stability and move forward.
How approach and online formats work together
Client-centered therapy puts the person’s goals first and focuses on empathic listening and validation. In online sessions this looks like starting where the client is, naming what matters most, and shaping each session around their priorities rather than a rigid agenda.Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and test them with small experiments. CBT online often includes homework tools, thought records, and skill practice that clients can use between sessions to see real change.
Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) brings concrete emotion-regulation and distress-tolerance skills for intense feelings. In remote work DBT skills - such as grounding, paced breathing, and short behavioral plans - are taught and rehearsed so they can be used in everyday moments.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to choose methods that fit the client’s goals, culture, and pace. Plans are adjusted as needed so the work stays practical and relevant.
Online formats offer flexibility and easier scheduling. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction and screen sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be a good option for brief check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging provide ongoing support between sessions and are useful for brief skill coaching or daily check-ins.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Anger management
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 32 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English