Works with
- Anger
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Anger management
How Adriene works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- California
- Years in practice
- 20
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Adriene
Adriene Faust is a licensed clinical social worker with 20 years of experience helping people manage anger and related concerns. She often supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, and relationship or intimacy issues. Her approach is respectful and straightforward.
She aims to create a calm space where difficult feelings can be named and understood. Adriene keeps sessions focused on practical next steps. She listens first, then helps set clear goals based on what matters to the client.
Background and approach
Conversations often include strategies for better communication, coping skills for intense emotions, and steps to reduce patterns that lead to conflict or substance use. She uses several evidence-based approaches to meet different needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and change behavior.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy supports noticing feelings without getting stuck and taking values-based actions. Adriene also draws on attachment perspectives to understand relationship patterns and client-centered methods to keep the work grounded in each person’s experience.
She adapts pace and techniques for someone dealing with trauma, caregiving stress, chronic illness, or major life changes. Clients report practical tools to handle anger, clearer communication with important people, and reduced overwhelm during stressful times. Adriene works with adults on a range of concerns including ADHD, bipolar disorder, and addiction-related struggles.
She practices in California and offers sessions in English.
What Adriene works with
Everything Adriene lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Adriene's practice.
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Anger management
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Adriene lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Adriene commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy in her online work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors that fuel anger, anxiety, or low mood. Dialectical Behavior Therapy teaches concrete skills for managing strong emotions, tolerating distress, and improving interpersonal effectiveness.She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy when clients want to accept difficult feelings and move toward what matters to them. That approach focuses on noticing thoughts and taking values-driven steps rather than getting stuck in struggle. Adriene treats selecting the right approach as a collaborative task - she will talk with each person about goals and try different methods until something fits.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for full sessions and visual cues, phone works when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows quick check-ins, and text messaging supports brief ongoing work between meetings. These options help people fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while keeping the focus on skill-building and progress.
Questions people ask about Adriene
What issues does she address related to anger?
She helps people manage anger alongside stress, anxiety, trauma, addictions, grief, relationship and intimacy concerns.
How would you describe her therapy style?
Sessions are practical and respectful. She listens, sets clear goals, and teaches skills for emotion regulation and healthier communication.
What is her clinical background?
Adriene has 20 years of professional experience working with adults on a broad range of emotional and behavioral challenges.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, licensed in California.
In which languages can sessions be held?
Sessions are offered in English, and she accepts international clients.
What session formats are available?
Therapy is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different needs.
How is cost handled for sessions?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the first steps to begin working together?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions based on therapist availability.