Faust Malabanan, MFT

Good news, the best is yet to come.

Greetings, my name is Faust, and I’m a therapist trainee here at Life Source Affordable Counseling Center. I firmly believe in realizing our best through experiences, acknowledgments, and learning. Our experiences are the stories that we can unravel and explore—stories that often reflect both opportunities and adversities. As for our acknowledgments, this represents our courageous act to change… to take that one step toward therapy. And finally, learning serves as the pathway to improvement and betterment. We can learn various strategies, coping mechanisms, and healing techniques right here in therapy.

Having said that, my approach and style of therapy are person-centered. I support the direction, growth, and leadership that each individual takes. I enjoy working with diverse populations, such as immigrants, students, intersectional identities, and more. The theories and techniques I focus on include, but are not limited to, Solution-Focused Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy.

As for my free time, the activities I do to relax and enjoy include: solving escape rooms, playing video games, visiting lots of cafes, reading The Economist, "cooking", going to concerts/music festivals, watching movies, and much more.