The Bay Area Center for ADD/ADHD is a multidisciplinary group of clinicians who provide treatment for ADD/ADHD in San Francisco, Marin, the East Bay, and the Peninsula 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 you and your family with the best treatment possible. Our work is always guided by the latest research in ADD/ADHD and we use effective treatment interventions. Below is a list of our team of psychologists, psychiatrists, psychotherapists and educational therapist who assess and treat adult and childhood ADHD. |
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W. Keith Sutton, Psy.D. - Psychologist/Director
Dr. Sutton is a clinical psychologist who sees clients in San Francisco and Corte Madera He provides individual, couples, and family therapy to adolescents and adults. He also provides neuro/psycho/educational assessments to diagnose and provide treatment recommendations for AD/HD and help acquire accommodations if needed. Dr. Sutton is the founder and director of the Institute for the Advancement of Psychotherapy. Email: KeithSutton@bayareaadhd.com |
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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 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@bayareaadhd.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@bayareaadhd.com |
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Mary Thomas, LMFT – Psychotherapist and Life/ADHD Coach
Mary Thomas sees clients in Berkeley providing psychotherapy and coaching to individuals, couples and families. As an ADHD Life Coach and psychotherapist, Mary understands how frustrating and overwhelming life with ADHD can be. She combines her years of experience working with those with ADHD, with her training as an ADHD coach and mindfulness-based, cognitive, behavioral therapy to help individuals, couples, students, parents, teens, and professionals to successfully manage ADHD symptoms (at work, school, and in relationship), while addressing underlying issues such as depression or anxiety. Mary is supportive, knowledgeable about ADHD, and committed to helping her clients live well and thrive. Email: MaryThomas@bayareaadhd.com |
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Raven Westhoelter, MFT
Raven Westhoelter uses a combination of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Motivational Interviewing, and Mindfulness to help adolescents and adults manage their ADD/ADHD symptoms. She provides extensive education about ADD/ADHD, how it creates common problems, and helps clients identify their own problem areas. Typical problem areas include forgetting and losing important things, procrastination, attention issues, budgeting time and money, and passing deadlines for completing tasks. She then works with clients to create and implement structural systems to help reduce these problem areas. Implementing behavioral changes can be difficult, so she also helps clients to be patient and self-forgiving while helping them connect to their values, goals, and internal motivations for change. Email: RavenWesthoelter@bayareaadhd.com |
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Casey Brodhead, Psy.D. - Psychologist
Dr. Casey Brodhead is a licensed clinical and assessment psychologist who graduated from the Stanford-PGSP Psy.D Consortium. He has been in the field for over 15 years in a variety of clinical and academic settings, including but not limited to Stanford University, Palo Alto University, local high schools and middle schools, community mental health, contract work, group practice work, government work, consultancy, and hospital/medical settings. Dr. Brodhead has experience working with clients in individual psychotherapy as well as group psychotherapy. Other roles he has experience with are as an educator, consultant, assessment psychologist, assessment supervisor, primary/delegated clinical supervisor, mentor, and department technology and efficiency trainer. Email: CaseyBrodhead@bayareaadhd.com |
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Laura Petracek, Ph.D.
Dr. Laura Petracek is the best-selling author of The Anger Management Workbook for Women (New Harbinger Publications Press, 2004.) She received her Doctorate in Psychology from California Institute for Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco and her Master’s in Social Work (MSW) from Yeshiva University in New York City. She has worked in the field of Psychology and Social Work for over thirty years. She has served as Executive Director, Clinical Director, and held the positions of Psychologist/LCSW at many different non-profit agencies including New Leaf: Services for our Community, Centerpoint, Inc., and A Women’s Path. She has supervised Ph.D. Post-Doctoral, ASW, and MFTi students. She has also held the position of Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, and Adjunct Professor at Bay Area Graduate Institutions such as Alliant University, Dominican University, and National University. Her areas of interest are injustice and racism in the Criminal Justice System, Feminist/Women’s Issues, Gender Issues, LGBT Issues (specifically drug and alcohol abuse in the LBGT community, suicidality in LGBT teenagers), and trauma (specifically complex trauma). Alcoholism/Drug abuse among women, Meditation, and Yoga. She has worked exclusively with Children and Adolescents, who have been diagnosed with ADHD, Anxiety, Depression, and/or Oppositional Defiant Disorder at local elementary and middle schools in the Bay Area for the past 5 years. Dr. Petracek specializes in helping people with anger dyscontrol issues and recovery from alcohol and other addictions. She currently maintains a private practice in the San Francisco Bay Area. Email: LauraPetracek@bayareaadhd.com |
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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: FabrizioDellabernarda@bayareaadhd.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@bayareaadhd.com |
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Liliana Casas Hernandez, LMFT - Marriage and Family Therapist
Liliana Casas Hernandez, Licensed Marriage family therapist considers it a great honor to be able to serve kids, children, teens and parents. For the past 17 years, she has been providing comprehensive counseling services to children and teens, parents and groups from diverse cultural backgrounds in different settings. This has included all levels of education from preschool to high school, hospital settings, non-profits, outpatient programs and victims of crime. She uses an integrative approach that includes EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), Emotionally Focused Therapy, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. With children, she has used Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) for preschoolers and Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT). Liliana understands that the gift of parenting brings both tremendous joy and challenges. She strives to support parents in exploring and identifying opportunities that invite their children in experiencing the best of who they are. Liliana works collaboratively with parents in understanding their child's strengths and temperament in order to address barriers that are impacting their child's ability to maximize their potential. Liliana believes that learning is continuous throughout life; there is always the possibility of growing and overcoming challenges. Being in a family means collaborating as a team, learning from each other and discovering what each member brings to the family. Email: LilianaCasasHernandez@bayareaadhd.com |
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Yi Zhao Martins, LMFT - Marriage and Family Therapist
Yi Zhao Martins, LMFT is committed to helping clients get in touch with their own reality, to accept their unique personality and that of others, and to successfully integrate the client(s) into their family, social circle and society at large. Yi has extensive experience working with children in school settings, during transitions, and between households. She is highly intuitive in seeing the inner child in her clients with compassion, warmth, and clarity, and supporting them to integrate all parts of the self. Yi is a lifetime learner, who holds a Bachelor of Arts in Law, a Master of Arts in Law, and a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology. She graduated from Dr. Alicia Lieberman’s one-year training program of Parent-Child Therapy by UCSF Child Trauma Research Program. She is actively learning and practicing Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), and System-Centered Therapy (SCT). Yi loves getting to know her clients and developing individualized therapeutic plans towards clients’ goals. Her areas of specialty include ADHD, PTSD, and anxiety. She uses an integrative approach that includes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Solution-Focused Therapy, Somatic Psychotherapy, System-Centered Therapy (SCT), Parent-Child Therapy (PCT), Play Therapy, Developmental Transformation, Expressive Arts Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT). As a long-term meditation and yoga practitioner, Yi uses mindfulness practices to nurture her own physical and emotional wellbeing. Her invaluable intuition and calm demeanor will surely be of benefit to her clients. Email: YiZhaoMartins@bayareaadhd.com |
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Lyn Blodgett, LCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker
As a licensed clinical social worker with more than twenty years of experience providing a range of mental health services to children, teens, adults, and families, Lyn is deeply committed to helping others with their healing and growth. She works with adults, adolescents, and families, offering individual and family therapy as well as parent coaching. She utilizes a number of evidence-based approaches, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, trauma-informed treatment, and self-compassion. She tailors her compassionate, warm approach to the unique, diverse needs, perspectives, experiences, and concerns of each client, keeping in mind the larger community context and drawing on her experience working in various settings, such as public schools and medical centers as well as community and county agencies. Lyn has specialized training and expertise in Mindfulness, Trauma-Informed Treatment, Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Parenting, Grief, Early Childhood Mental Health, Trauma-Informed Treatment, and Gender Expansive Care. She works with individuals from a strength-based perspective, welcomes feedback and collaboration, and offers compassion as well as practical skills to help reduce stress, anxiety, and depression and improve one's connection to oneself and others. Email: LynBlodgett@bayareaadhd.com |
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Justine Gilbane, LMFT - Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
Justine is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with over a decade of clinical experience and an undergraduate degree in Art Therapy. She currently provides psychotherapy online helping people better understand themselves and identify/utilize their strengths. She teaches tools so they can go from surviving to thriving. Her approach is collaborative. She utilizes traditional and creative interventions with a sprinkle of humor. She has worked with people across the life span both individually and as a family therapist. She has experience working with individuals and their systems in outpatient, community based, school and residential programs. She is familiar with learning differences and emotional and behavioral dysregulation both at school and at home. She has led parenting groups and programs. She has level two certification in Attachment Based Family Therapy. She is experienced in Play Therapy. She loves to help people strengthen their communication and relationships through insight, attachment work and processing trauma. Email: JustineGilbane@bayareaadhd.com |
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Karrie Stafford, Ph.D - Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
Karrie Stafford is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and holds a doctorate in Art Therapy Psychology. She has practiced psychotherapy for nearly 20 years, providing evidence based treatment for couples, families and youth. In addition to Structural and Strategic Family Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Karrie has extensive training and experience with Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT). DBT focuses on the development of mindfulness skills, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness. Her work supports individuals, couples and families through difficult transitions, managing challenging behaviors and coping with mental health symptoms. Karrie has taught Marriage and Family Therapy and Art Therapy students at the Masters and Doctoral levels at Notre Dame de Namur University, and has provided continuing education and licensing preparation trainings for MFT Interns and Associate Social Workers. She has worked as an administrator and clinical supervisor for a Short Term Residential Treatment Facility serving adolescents with serious mental health issues and complex trauma. Karrie's approach is curious, non judgmental and skills based. Email: KarrieStafford@bayareaadhd.com |
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James Keim, MSW, LCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker
James Keim, LCSW is the founder of Mimosa Therapeutics, Inc., which uses bioreactors to grow research grade, natural psilocybin, rather than the synthetic psilocybin which is most widespread. He was the clinical director for Jay Haley and Cloe Madanes, the developers of Strategic Family Therapy, has published his work on Oppositional Defiant Disorder, and heads the Institute for the Advancement of Psychotherapy's Oppositional and Conduct Disorder Clinic. James Keim in addition to teaching at the IAP, also teaches family therapy in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Thailand. Email: JamesKeim@bayareaadhd.com |
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Andrea Vela, LMFT - Marriage and Family Therapist
Andrea Vela, LMFT is a bilingual, first-generation Peruvian-American therapist. She provides individual, couples, and family therapy through telehealth to adults and adolescents eager to relieve relationship issues, and symptoms of anxiety, trauma, and depression. She integrates a variety of therapeutic methods to meet the unique needs of each person she works with. Andrea has training in evidence-based approaches such as systemic family therapy, emotionally focused and Gottman Method couples therapy, cognitive and dialectical behavioral therapy, and is a certified anger management counselor. She has also effectively supported many individuals experiencing issues in the areas of identity development, self-esteem, intergenerational trauma, culture, parenting, life transitions, and grief. Notably, she is passionate about helping couples achieve interconnected, fulfilling, joyful relationships. Her solution-focused, playful, direct, and nonjudgmental style in the room promote a culture of safety, empowerment, and healing during therapy. Andrea supports clients with ADHD in learning how to manage day to day symptoms and challenges, harnessing and accepting difficult emotions, and building effective communication and problem-solving skills to increase confidence and satisfaction in their lives. Email: AndreaVela@bayareaadhd.com |
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Cristina (Tina) Carter, LMFT- Marriage and Family Therapist
Tina is a bi-racial native to San Francisco who completed her graduate degree in Portland, OR. She works with adolescents and adults to provide individual and family therapy in a variety of situations. Tina has experience working in high schools, providing therapy to children and families in Wellington, New Zealand, and in mental health services at the YMCA of SF for youth and families. Tina values authenticity in her approach to supporting a range of issues including transition and change, trauma (specific, complex, intergenerational), anxiety, identity, family conflict, depressed mood, and motivation. She draws from a combination of therapeutic models to increase a sense of control and find peace through adversity, and works from the foundation that people exist in their relationships to others. Email: CristinaCarter@bayareaadhd.com |
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