As a teenager Faith learned Transcendental Meditation,™ which led her to explore the tenets of Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism. After undergraduate work at Bryn Mawr College she earned her doctorate from Widener University’s Institute for Graduate Clinical Psychology. Her interest in these ancient philosophies motivated her to also continue her spiritual studies, pursuing and obtaining a Doctor of Spiritual Science (DSS) degree. Her life-long mind-body-spirit approach to health and wellness all came together in Cherishment: A Psychology of the Heart, which she co-authored in 2000 with renowned psychoanalyst Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, Ph.D.
While earning her Doctor of Psychology degree at Widener, Faith unexpectedly encountered Japanese psychoanalyst Takeo Doi’s concept of amae in an obscure footnote in a psychoanalytic textbook called The Basic Fault (1968) by Michael Balint. At the time she was undergoing her personal analysis, preparing herself to work with patients directly by doing her own exploratory therapy work.