Faizah Mawusi

Faizah Mawusi is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) in Indiana with 32 years of experience. She centers her practice on creating a compassionate, affirming space where people can bring difficult feelings like anger, grief, and anxiety. Her style is straightforward and supportive, focusing on what people need now to feel steadier and more capable.

She uses client-centered methods to meet people where they are. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thoughts and change patterns that fuel anger and depression. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and mindfulness practices offer concrete tools for managing intense emotions and reducing reactivity.

Mawusi also draws on motivational interviewing to help people find reasons to change and keep progress moving. She attends to cultural background and identity, including LGBT and multicultural concerns, when those issues are part of the work. This means therapy looks different depending on each person’s story and needs.

Her practice supports stress, addictions, trauma and abuse, mood disorders, relationship and communication problems, parenting strain, compassion fatigue, and life transitions. She helps with family of origin issues, forgiveness, guilt and shame, and challenges such as postpartum depression and post-traumatic stress.

People who choose her can expect calm guidance, concrete coping skills, and a focus on real-life steps. To start, visitors complete a short questionnaire and schedule sessions based on availability.

How therapeutic approaches shape online work

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely and shaping the work around the person’s priorities. It helps people feel heard and guides the pace of change based on individual needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches simple exercises to shift unhelpful patterns. CBT is often used for anger, anxiety, and mood concerns.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work together with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, comfort level, and daily life. That collaboration can include mixing approaches so sessions address both immediate coping skills and longer term change.

Session formats are not listed in the provided biography, so confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, avoid travel time, and maintain continuity during life transitions. It also allows choosing quieter surroundings, stepping out for a short check-in during a break, or focusing on skills practice with guided exercises between meetings. Licensed professionals can adapt tools like CBT worksheets, DBT skills coaching, and mindfulness exercises to work well in remote sessions.