W. Keith Sutton, Psy.D. 

Dr. Sutton is a psychologist who works systemically with children, teens, families, couples and individual adults in San Francisco, Corte Madera and throughout California via Zoom. In addition to his practice, he is the founder and director of the Institute for the Advancement of Psychotherapy, where he provides trainings in evidence based treatments including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Structural-Strategic Family Therapy, Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy, EMDR and Motivational Interviewing, as well as he and James Keim, LCSW’s Evolving Structural-Strategic Family Therapy four stage, transdiagnostic approach to working with families. IAP also has 37 licensed, experienced therapists and a psychiatrist who are seeing clients in San Francisco, Marin, the East Bay, the Peninsula, South Bay and via Zoom through the specialty centers, which include the Bay Area Center for Children, Bay Area Center for Adolescents, Bay Area Center for Couples, Bay Area Center for ADHD, Bay Area Center for Anxiety and the Bay Area Oppositional and Conduct Disorder Clinic. He is also the founder and director of Bay Area Community Counseling and The Family Institute of Berkeley, which has MFT, SW, and PCC associates, as well as post doc psych assistants who train in family systems and learn to integrate evidence based treatments, and provide services on a sliding scale for those in financial need. He is the past president of the Association of Family Therapists of Northern California, a certified EFT Supervisor and is the host of the podcast, Therapy On The Cutting Edge, where he interviews therapists who are doing interesting, innovative, integrative work in the field of psychotherapy. He works with a range of diverse clients who are coming to him for his specialties in ADHD, Complex PTSD, OCD, Oppositional Defiance Disorder, Substance Abuse/Dependence, family therapy, couples therapy, and treatment for anxiety disorders, and often sees clients whom have attempted therapy times before but were unable to make change. Dr. Sutton focuses on cultural competency, with a focus on awareness of privilege and its blindspots and the power dynamics within therapy, focusing on social justice and awareness of not imposing dominant cultural narratives on all clients.  

Gina Fahouri, LMFT
Gina Fahouri a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who is bilingual in Spanish and has been providing psychotherapy services for over 15 years. Her bicultural background gives her good insight in how to help diverse individuals and families from all backgrounds manage issues ranging from family conflict to depression, anxiety, trauma, chronic mental illness and co occurring drug and alcohol issues. Gina chose a career as a Marriage and Family Therapist in part because of her own positive experiences with therapy around the time she was about to graduate from high school. Gina was fortunate enough to have a therapist of her own who really listened and helped her through a brief but tumultuous adolescent transition. After finishing her BA in psychology at UC Berkeley, she decided to volunteer at a local peer counseling collective. She was trained in a style of therapy that emphasizes inherent worth and resiliency and saw how helpful this approach could be in her future work. She finished her Masters in Counseling Psychology at Cal State, East Bay in 2001 and began her career as a psychotherapist, working for several years in East Los Angeles and for the last 20 years in the Bay Area.