The Bay Area Center for Anxiety is a multidisciplinary group of clinicians who provide treatment for anxiety across the San Francisco Bay Area, and is a specialty center of the Institute for the Advancement of Psychotherapy. We provide assessment, medication management, therapy, and educational counseling in order to provide our clients with the best treatment possible. Our work is guided by the latest research on anxiety and we use effective treatment interventions. Below is a list of the psychologists, psychiatrists, and educational therapists who are part of the practice.
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W. Keith Sutton, Psy.D. - Director and Psychologist
Dr. Keith Sutton works with adolescents and adults providing individual, family, and couples therapy and psychological assessments. He combines his training in cognitive behavioral therapy, family and couples therapy, and neuropsychological assessment in order to work with clients on the micro level of neurology to the macro level of working with the individuals and systems within the client's lives. His warm, straightforward manner and focus on using strengths to overcome weakness helps clients to feel safe and understood in the therapy. He provides both brief therapy and long-term therapy. email: KeithSutton@bayareaanxiety.com |
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Bart Rubin, Ph.D
Dr. Rubin works with couples, families, children and adults with ADD/ADHD. He has been involved in the treatment of ADHD and learning disabilities for the past 30 years. He was an Adjunct Professor at Alliant International University-San Francisco for twenty years. His areas of specialty include family/couples therapy, ADHD, juvenile delinquency, substance abuse, trauma, behaviorally challenging youth, supervision and training. He was a certified trainer and supervisor in Brief Strategic Family Therapy and is certified in both Multi-Dimensional Family Therapy and trained in EMDR. He was also the Founder and Executive Director of The Family Institute of Pinole (FIP), one of the leading couples/family therapy training programs in the country. email: BartRudin@bayareaanxiety.com |
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Davida Cohen, MFT
Davida Cohen works with families, couples, children and adults and has been teaching, training and supervising for 20 years. She has worked at the Family Institute of Pinole in the positions of Director of Training, and Clinical Director. She also holds an MA in Art and works with adults and children to bring out their potential in mindfulness, creativity and relationships. Her specialties include ADHD, spirited, acting out children as well as overly constricted, anxious or depressed children. Additionally, she works with trauma and stress, adoption issues, and children and teen's behavioral difficulties. email: DavidaCohen@bayareaanxiety.com |
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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. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which has a strong basis in science, to overcome depression, anxiety and a wide range of problems. She helps her clients to start changing thought processes in order to change feelings and behaviors. She also uses Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) to relieve past traumas and work on healing deeper emotional wounds. email: JoannRiggio@bayareaanxiety.com |
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Lianne Warren, MA - 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 to develop 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: LianneWarren@bayareaanxiety.com |
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Max Farber, Psy.D. - Psychologist
Dr. Max Farber is a licensed clinical psychologist who helps foster positive change in people’s lives. He listens and co-creates therapy goals. Dr. Farber’s work often involves helping people to identify and live by the values that give their lives meaning and vitality, become more aware and accepting of emotions, worry less, problem solve with more flexibility, be more resilient to stress, change emotion driven behaviors to behavior choices that are more in line with core values, and to make new and enhance existing relationships, be they personal or professional. He feels that it is a tremendous privilege to help people in this way. He is politically liberal and queer positive. His education, training, and experience include a doctoral degree from the APA-accredited Wright Institute, predoctoral and postdoctoral residencies at Kaiser Permanente in Walnut Creek, and supervising student-clinicians at the Berkeley CBT Clinic. Email: MaxFarber@sfiap.com |
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Terry Regan, MA, ET/P - Educational Therapist
Terry Regan, MA, ET/P has a Masters Degree in Education. He holds certificates in educational therapy, college advising and technical writing. Additionally, he is a trained Feuerstein Practitioner working with both Instrumental Enrichment and Dynamic Assessment techniques. He is a member of the Institute for the Advancement of Psychotherapy with a special focus on AD/HD. His private practice includes working with adolescents, undergraduates and graudate students and adults who have functional difficulties related to a variety of cognitive problems that undermine their performance in school or on the job. He has logged thousands of hours as an educational therapist and academic advisor working with students to address the learning challenges associated with today’s modern pedagogy. email: TerryRegan@sfiap.com |
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Helen Shamis, LMFT - Marriage and Family Therapist
Helen Shamis, LMFT has been licensed as a marriage family therapist since 2005. She has worked with children with learning differences including ADHD, Autistic Spectrum Disorders, Anxiety and Depression for over twenty years, within the school system and in collaboration with their families. Helen has held clinical positions in public and private schools, non-profit organizations and community mental health programs. Working with transitional age youth is one of her specialities. Also, she has extensive experience in treating clients with eating disorders, and was Clinical Director of Beyond Hunger, a non-profit providing support groups for those in recovery. email: HelenShamis@sfiap.com |
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Joshua Westhoelter, MFT - Marriage and Family Therapist
Joshua Westhoelter is a Marriage and Family Therapist. He completed his M.A. in Marriage and Family Counseling at Argosy University and his B.A. in Psychology at the University of Missouri – St. Louis (UMSL). He has worked with survivors of domestic violence, substance abuse, homelessness, anxiety, depression, trauma, and a variety of other therapeutic concerns such as parenting skill, relationships, and major life adjustments. Joshua works from a collective of evidence based therapeutic orientations including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Solution Focused Therapy, Emotionally Focused Therapy, Family Systems, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, and Mindfulness meditation. email: JoshuaWesthoelter@sfiap.com |
BAY AREA CENTER FOR ANXIETY
Providing Trusted, Compassionate, Effective Therapy
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San Francisco • Marin • East Bay • Peninsula • South Bay
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email
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info@bayareanxiety.com
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phone
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(415) 488-5781
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