The Bay Area Center for Children, with offices in San Francisco, Marin, Oakland/Berkeley, is a multidisciplinary group of clinicians who provide treatment for children. 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 adolescents and we use effective treatment interventions. Below is a list of the psychologists, psychiatrists, and educational therapist who are part of the practice.
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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@bayareacenterforchildren.com |
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Helen Shamis, LMFT
Helen 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 with treating clients with eating disorders, and was Clinical Director of Beyond Hunger, a non-profit providing support groups for those in recovery. email: helenshamis@bayareacenterforchildren.com |
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Antonia Servat, LMFT
Antonia is a licensed marriage and family therapist with more than nine years’ experience providing therapy to children, youth, and families. Her education and training are in the areas of child and adolescent psychology, family therapy, play therapy, and intake and assessment. Antonia has a private practice in San Francisco. Antonia has worked extensively with children, families, parents, and couples and is experienced in the areas of anxiety, depression, behavioral issues, attachment, matters related to self-esteem, relationship challenges, and life transition issues. Antonia has provided Individual, Couples & Family Therapy services and has worked with clients aged 4 and up since 2010. Her approach is Strength-based, viewing clients as the experts in their own lives. Antonia utilizes CBT techniques for skill building and Play Therapy with children. In addition to direct client care, Antonia’s background lies in nonprofit leadership and program management. Antonia currently provides Clinical Supervision at North Marin Community Services, was the Director of Operations at Masonic Center for Youth and Families, and the Associate Director for the Youth Service Bureaus of the Y. She has managed and developed programs serving youth in need, created and run large scale intake departments, and has led training programs for developing therapists. Email: AntoniaServat@bayareacenterforchildren.com |
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Anne-Olivia S. Rose, Psy.D. - Psychologist
Dr. Rose is a licensed psychologist who specializes in psychological assessments for children, adolescents, and adults. She focuses on testing for ADHD, learning disabilities, autism spectrum disorders, and emotional issues. Dr. Rose is also on the training and supervisory staff of the Psychological Services Center in Oakland where she provides clinical and assessment supervision for doctoral trainees and provides training to the legal community on assessment of adolescents. She is also a Vendor Psychologist for the Regional Center of the East Bay where she performs Autism and Mental Retardation evaluations. email: Anne-OliviaRose@bayareacenterforchildren.com |
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Carmelinda Mann Brewer, Ph.D.
Dr. Carmelinda Mann Brewer work with individuals, couples, and families, to develop a therapeutic relationship based on their needs and goals. Through this process, clients get to know themselves better, in a safe and supportive environment. She supports couples and families in developing empathy so that interactions become more connected and thoughtful. She incorporates mindfulness with other therapeutic modalities to find the best fit for each individual. She provides EMDR, EFT, and Prolonged Exposure for clients, to help them process difficult experiences when appropriate. she also offers Parent Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), one of the most powerful, effective and proven treatment approaches for supporting families with preschool and school-aged children with difficult behavior and/or who have been exposed to trauma. email: CarmelindaBrewer@bayareacenterforchildren.com |
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Lianne Warren, MFT - Marriage and Family Therapist
Lianne Warren, MFT is a Marriage and Family Therapist who received her Master’s in Counseling Psychology from University of San Francisco and Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from University of Oregon. Her experiences as a school based therapist have provided her opportunities to work with children, families, couples, and adults. During her clinical experiences, she has addressed a wide variety of concerns, including troubled relationships, parenting, behavioral modification, anxiety, depression, loss and life transitions. Lianne’s own life experiences have provided her with an understanding that life at times can be challenging, and that having support during difficult times can be helpful. As a result, she strives to develop therapeutic relationships that are based on trust and empathy in order to assist clients to identify solutions and to make positive change in a collaborative manner. In recognition that clients enter therapy with their own unique set of experiences, strengths and goals for therapy, she utilizes an integrative approach that includes evidence based practices such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Structural-Strategic Family Therapy, Solution Focused Therapy, Emotionally Focused Therapy, Gottman’s Couple Therapy, EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), and Mindfulness based psychotherapies. Email: LianneWarren@bayareacenterforchildren.com |
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Ellen Strong, MSW, MFT
Ellen has been a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist since 1993. She has a wealth of experience and is deeply committed to helping clients with anxiety, depression, parenting and family conflict, self-esteem issues, grief, and trauma. For the past five years, at the Northern California Veteran’s Administration, Ellen has helped vets deal with post-traumatic stress disorder, substance abuse, readjustment, and relationship issues. Prior to the Veteran’s Administration, Ellen worked at UCLA Medical Center in an outpatient clinic for children and adolescents with Asperger’s, ADHD, anxiety, attachment and behavior issues. She has also counseled at-risk youth in school-based settings, domestic violence survivors in a battered women’s shelter, and addicts with poly-substance abuse issues in an outpatient day treatment setting. Ellen uses Evidence Based techniques such as Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Mindfulness- Based Cognitive Therapy, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. She finds Expressive Therapies such as writing often help manage grief and other painful life experiences. Clients are also encouraged to share future goals, hopes and dreams. email:ellenstrong@bayareacenterforchildren.com |
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Bay Area Center For Children
San Francisco • Marin • East Bay • Peninsula • South Bay
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info@bayareacenterforchildren.com |
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(415) 617-9587 |