About April
April Faust is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in Pennsylvania. She brings 12 years of experience in mental health care and works with people facing stress, anxiety, mood concerns, addiction, and relationship or family challenges. Her approach blends practical strategies with skills-based work.
She uses techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify unhelpful thinking and try different behaviors. She also draws on dialectical ideas that balance acceptance with change, and she uses mindfulness and solution-focused tools to set concrete goals.
Background and approach
In sessions she helps people manage anxiety, panic, phobias, and sleep or eating disruptions. She also supports those coping with trauma, grief, chronic illness, caregiver strain, and the stresses that come with career and life transitions. Additional areas include work around codependency, communication problems, and concerns related to alternative sex culture and kink.
April aims for clear, usable steps each week. That can mean short behavior experiments, emotion regulation skills, or targeted problem-solving. She mixes coaching-style prompts with reflective conversations to help people build new patterns.
People meet by phone, video call, live chat, or text messaging, which lets sessions fit into busy routines. To begin, someone completes a brief matching questionnaire and schedules a time that fits their needs.
Therapeutic skills you can use online
CBT helps people notice patterns of thinking that lead to distress and then try different actions to test those thoughts. It is often used for anxiety, phobias, depression, and sleep or eating concerns with clear homework tasks and experiments between sessions.Dialectical approaches emphasize a balance of acceptance and change. That can mean learning emotion regulation skills, distress tolerance techniques, and ways to notice triggers without reacting immediately. These tools are useful for strong mood swings, anger, and problems with impulsive behavior.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, current struggles, and what methods feel most helpful. Together they decide whether to focus on skills practice, problem-solving, motivational work, or short-term goal setting.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit a busy life. Video allows face-to-face conversation and screen-sharing for worksheets, phone can be a simpler check-in, live chat is useful for quick text-based exchanges, and messaging supports brief coaching and ongoing check-ins between sessions. These options give flexibility for different schedules, bandwidth, and comfort with being on camera.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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