About Kalene
Kalene McSwain-Faulkner greets clients warmly and focuses on concerns like stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, addictions, self-esteem, and relationship issues. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with nine years of professional experience and speaks English and Spanish. Her approach blends practical strategies with encouragement so people feel able to use their strengths.
Kalene draws on years of social work practice and ongoing education, plus life experience that includes military service.
Background and approach
That background helped her learn to work with people from different cultures and walks of life. She sees therapy as a collaborative process where clients remain the experts on their own lives. In sessions she uses straightforward methods aimed at making everyday changes.
Techniques come from cognitive behavioral ideas, acceptance and commitment thinking, attachment-focused work, emotionally focused approaches, and client-centered listening. She also brings coaching principles and motivational strategies to help people act on their goals. Kalene describes therapy as an alignment process not a quick fix.
She listens first, then clarifies what she heard and offers practical steps to shift patterns that cause distress. Progress often happens over time through small, consistent adjustments. People who prefer direct encouragement, practical tools, and a strengths-based perspective may find her style a good fit.
She supports clients through life transitions, parenting and family concerns, career stress, and challenges such as bipolar symptoms, addiction, and compassion fatigue.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Kalene often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, so they can take steps toward what matters. This can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes.She also draws on Client-Centered Therapy, which centers on listening, empathy, and supporting each person’s own pace. That approach helps when someone needs a space to process grief, trauma, or relationship stress without feeling judged.
Finding the best approach is part of the work together. She will discuss options, try methods that fit the client’s goals, and adjust based on feedback. The client’s preferences and real-life needs guide which strategies are used.
Online therapy offers practical ways to connect. Video calls let people see facial cues and use screen sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, quick coaching prompts, or when someone needs a flexible way to stay in touch between sessions.
These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, and travel schedules while using the same therapeutic approaches she practices in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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