Geoffrey Faustman, LMFT

Geoffrey Faustman is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) who uses a direct, goal-focused style to help people move past stuck points like anxiety, anger, depression, and shame. He speaks plainly and works with clear questions to help you decide what you want to achieve and what you want to keep or avoid. Sessions emphasize practical steps you can use right away.

His approach looks at how thoughts, choices, and actions interact in everyday life. He draws from methods such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to tailor work to each person’s strengths. That means figuring out what tools already help you and what new habits might feel useful.

Geoffrey helps people weigh values and goals alongside real-life obstacles. He encourages using personal values to guide decisions and small experiments to test new behaviors. Therapy is framed as work you do together, not a set of lectures.

He has 11 years of clinical experience and is licensed in South Dakota and California as an LMFT. He applies practical strategies to concerns including stress, relationship problems, self-esteem, addiction, trauma, grief, intimacy issues, anger, and career changes. He also focuses on men's issues and LGBT concerns.

Sessions are offered in English and can include several formats like video, phone, live chat, and text messaging. Geoffrey aims to help people reach their goals and step back from long-term dependence on therapy when they are ready.

CBT and Values-Guided Work Online

Geoffrey commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in online sessions. CBT focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and helps you test and change unhelpful patterns with practical exercises and behavior experiments. ACT emphasizes identifying personal values and learning to accept difficult thoughts while committing to actions that match those values, which can help when anxiety or avoidance gets in the way of goals.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Geoffrey works with each person to see which method fits their goals and preferences, and he adjusts over time if something isn’t helping. The aim is to create a plan you can use in daily life, not a one-size-fits-all script.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for full conversations and visual cues, phone works when bandwidth is limited, live chat can suit brief check-ins or processing between sessions, and text messaging helps maintain momentum with short updates or reminders. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and try different ways of working until the best fit is found.