Guest Profile
Faust Ruggiero MS
About The Author
Faust A. Ruggiero’s professional career spans over forty years of diversified, cutting-edge counseling programs in pursuit of professional excellence and personal life enhancement. He is a published research author, clinical trainer, and therapist with experience in clinics for deaf children, prisons, nursing homes, substance abuse centers, inpatient facilities, and major national and international corporations. He has served as the president of the Community Psychological Center in Bangor, Pennsylvania, in which capacity he developed the Process Way of Life counseling program, later presented as a formal text in The Fix Yourself Handbook.
Upon graduating from Mansfield University in 1977, he enrolled in the graduate psychology program at Illinois State University with a dual major in clinical and developmental psychology and a minor in research. He assisted in the publication of several research articles, including his thesis, “The Effects of Prosocial and Antisocial Television Programs on the Cognitions of Children.”
Upon leaving graduate school in 1979, Mr. Ruggiero worked with Antoinette Goffredo to provide counseling services and psychological intervention to adolescent deaf children. He worked with Ms. Goffredo to develop a behavioral management program for profoundly deaf children with residual hearing.
In 1982, he accepted a position with the Lehigh Valley Alcohol Counseling Center. There, he provided individual counseling services to clientele suffering from alcohol abuse and addiction, including the twelve-step recovery process and family and intervention services. There, Mr. Ruggiero developed a Phase 2 counseling program for individuals convicted of drunk-driving offenses.
In 1984, he accepted a treatment position at Northampton County Prison, where he provided psychological and substance abuse intake and counseling services to inmates. He coordinated all substance abuse and program development services for inmates. In 1986, he obtained his certification in substance abuse treatment in the state of Pennsylvania.
In 1989, Mr. Ruggiero left Northampton County prison to pursue his endeavors at the Community Psychological Center full-time. As president of the Community Psychological Center, Mr. Ruggiero continued to provide services to individuals, families, those suffering from substance abuse, abused women and women in transition, as well as couples and marriage counseling, and counseling for veterans, law enforcement, and other first responders. In 1990, he began providing employee assistance programs to corporations in the state of Pennsylvania. Since then, he has been nationally and internationally recognized for his business approaches focused on strengthening corporate administrators and their workforces. In 1994, Mr. Ruggiero accepted an invitation to become a trainer for the Department of Health in Pennsylvania.
Following several years of experimentation with various therapeutic approaches that could be applied to clients individually and in families, social relationships, and business and corporate settings, Mr. Ruggiero developed and employed the Process Way of Life Counseling Program. The program consists of over fifty internal human processes, which can be accessed and developed to help clients address the various conditions affecting their lives. The program was developed, rigorously researched and tested, and revised into the approach he is presently uses at the Community Psychological Center.
In the summer of 2016, Mr. Ruggiero began to develop The Fix Yourself Empowerment Series based on the Process Life Program to help readers address the difficult situations in their lives. The award winning The Fix Yourself Handbook was completed in December 2019. He has appeared on television, radio shows, and podcasts both national and international to discuss the Process Way of Life. His radio show “Fix It With Faust” debuted in June 2021. On June 8, 2023, the second installment in The Fix Yourself Empowerment Series, The Fix Your Anxiety Handbook, was published. It is also an award-winning publication. In December, 2003, The Fix Your Depression Handbook was published. It is the third book in the series. The Fix Your Anger Handbook, the series’ fourth book, was published in May 2024.
