Jookyoung Jackie Faana , LCSW

Jookyoung Jackie Faana is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with 16 years of experience helping people work through anxiety, depression, grief, and the many challenges that accompany life transitions and persistent stress. Her practice emphasizes practical, compassionate support that helps clients identify coping strategies and move toward more fulfilling, balanced days.

She creates a warm, nonjudgmental environment where thoughts and feelings can be explored openly. Drawing on a range of therapeutic approaches, she tailors interventions to each person’s needs - addressing relationship and family concerns, attachment issues, caregiver stress, chronic illness or pain, communication difficulties, control struggles, guilt and shame, isolation, mood disorders, and matters of self-esteem and self-love.

As a professional committed to collaborative care, she recognizes that taking the first step toward change requires courage. She partners with clients through each stage of the process, offering steady guidance and practical tools to manage present challenges and build resilience. LCSW stands for Licensed Clinical Social Worker, a credential indicating advanced training in psychotherapy and social services.

Approaches That Guide Online Healing and Connection

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then move toward actions that reflect what matters most. It is often useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions because it focuses on values-based change and practical coping skills.

Attachment-Based Therapy explores patterns in close relationships and how early connections shape current ways of relating. It supports work on attachment issues, relationship and family concerns, and patterns of trust or distance that affect emotional wellbeing.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process and is done collaboratively. The therapist will work with each person to identify which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences, and adapt techniques as progress unfolds.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility - sessions can occur via video calls, phone conversations, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit care into busy schedules, connect from different locations, and continue therapeutic work during life transitions, while maintaining regular contact with licensed professionals and therapists who can provide ongoing support.