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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Faust Ruggiero
Faust A. Ruggiero's professional career spans over forty years, with diversified, cutting-edge counseling programs that pursue 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 that 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 clients 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 to 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, as well as in social relationships, business, and corporate settings, Mr. Ruggiero developed and employed the Process Way of Life Counseling Program. The program comprises over fifty internal human processes that can be accessed and utilized to help clients address the various conditions affecting their lives. The program was rigorously researched and tested, and revised into the approach he presently uses at the Community Psychological Center.

In the summer of 2016, Mr. Ruggiero began developing The Fix Yourself Empowerment Series, based on the Process Life Program, to help readers address difficult life situations.

The first book, The Fix Yourself Handbook , was completed in December 2019 and became an award-winning publication.

He has appeared on television, radio, and podcasts, both nationally and internationally, to discuss the Process Way of Life. His radio show, Fix It With Faust, debuted in June 2021.

The series has continued to expand with additional award-winning releases:

The next installment, The Fix Your Faith Handbook, is currently in development with a tentative release date of February 2026.

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