The Bay Area Center for Couples Therapy, with offices in San Francisco, Marin, the East Bay, the Peninsula, the South Bay and Anywhere in California via Zoom, is a multidisciplinary group of clinicians who provide treatment for couples. Our therapists use Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy and aspects of Gottman Method Couples Therapy to help couples stop fighting and regain the love they have for each other. Below is a list of our team of psychologists, psychiatrists, and psychotherapists who assess and treat issues unique to couples.
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W. Keith Sutton, Psy.D. - Psychologist
W. Keith Sutton, Psy.D. is a licensed psychologist and director of the Bay Area Center for Couples Therapy. He has been working with couples for the past seven years and is trained in both Gottman Method Couples Therapy and Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy, both evidence based, short term, effective approaches for couples. He works with a number of issues in couples therapy such as a couples transition to parenthood, couples with children and teenagers, couples struggling with anxiety, couples struggling with ADD/ADHD, and couples seeking to enhance their sexual relationship. email: [email protected] |
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Raven Westhoelter, MFT
Raven Westhoelter helps couples to connect with each other, improve their communication, and heal current or past wounds through understanding, empathy, and acceptance using Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT). She has worked successfully with couples in crisis, couples with ADHD, and couples with anxiety, depression, and PTSD. She completed her training in EFT with Dr. Sue Johnson, who developed the model, and Dr. Rebecca Jorgensen. She then completed advanced training in EFT Core Skills with Dr. Rebecca Jorgensen. email: [email protected] |
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Joann Riggio, MFT
Joann Riggio is a Marriage and Family Therapist, who has helped many people recognize their true potential while helping them overcome their emotional difficulties. As a couples counselor, she understands the strain that work and child rearing responsibilities place on the relationship, which often results in the loss of effective communication and connection with each other. Utilizing techniques from Dr. John Gottman, and Dr. Sue Johnson's Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy, she helps couples reconnect and reestablish their love relationship with a deeper understanding of one another. email: [email protected] |
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Lianne Warren, MFT
Lianne is a Licensed Marriage Family Therapist in San Francisco who is experienced in working with adolescents and adults with ADHD. She has a particular interest in helping clients with ADHD who also struggle with anxiety. In her work, she collaborates with her clients todevelop individualized strategies for action: to optimize his or her ability for time management, organization, to sustain effort to meet goals, and emotional regulation. In the process she helps her clients to recognize each of their unique strengths, innate resiliency, and to generally feel more competent, confident and have a more fulfilling life at home, work and in relationships. Lianne utilizes an integrative approach that includes skill building, and evidence based practices such as CBT, Mindfulness based psychotherapies, & EMDR. email: [email protected] |
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Fabrizio Dellabernarda, LMFT - Marriage and Family Therapist
Fabrizio Dellabernarda is a marriage and family therapist who obtained his M.A. in Counseling Psychology at the University of San Francisco. He provides psychotherapy in San Francisco and online, in English and Italian. He strongly believes in the importance of looking at each person in his or her own context. He collaborates with his clients in identifying what is most important to them. He draws from his clients' strengths and offers guidance and skills to expand their repertoire of responses to align with their chosen values in the face of stressful emotions and situations. His approach and style in the therapy session comes from his life experience and the integration of multiple therapeutic orientations. He has trained in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Family Systems, Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). He has worked at the Bay Area Community Counseling with Dr. Keith Sutton and at the Mental Research Institute in Palo Alto for the past 3+ years on issues such as depression, anxiety disorders (including OCD), complex trauma and PTSD, ADHD, behavioral issues with adolescents and their families, relationships problems, and problems with life transitions. He is active in the LGBTQ+ community and co-facilitates a group of aging gay men with HIV. Before entering the field of clinical psychology, Fabrizio worked for fifteen years as a software engineer and enjoyed the problem solving and the group dynamics aspects associated with that career. email: [email protected] |
BAY AREA CENTER FOR COUPLES THERAPY
Providing Trusted, Compassionate, Effective Therapy
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San Francisco • Marin • East Bay • Peninsula • South Bay • Anywhere in California via Zoom
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(415) 448-6513
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