Emily Berner

The San Francisco Bay Area Center for Cognitive Therapy

Emily Berner, LMFT (MFT81533) specializes in helping parents of anxious children and is in the first international cohort to receive certification in SPACE treatment (Supportive Parenting of Anxious Childhood Emotions) through the Yale Child Study Center. After more than a decade specializing in pediatric anxiety, OCD, and related disorders, Emily came to see that children and adolescents get well and stay well within a supportive family context, which often means making changes at the parent level. She is passionate about empowering parents to create the circumstances needed to help children navigate anxiety, while staying connected with their own core values. Emily brings her core values of compassion, collaboration, flexibility, and humor to her work with parents.

An Oakland native, Emily completed her undergraduate degree at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and attended graduate school at the University of Hawaii and California State University East Bay. After receiving her master’s degree in counseling psychology in 2011, Emily trained in evidence-based treatments at the Santa Rosa Center for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and at the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy & Mindfulness Center in San Ramon. She became a partner at the San Francisco Bay Area Center for Cognitive Therapy in 2016.

Emily has extensive experience treating a wide variety of problems in children, adolescents, and adults including OCD, depression, perfectionism, social anxiety, separation anxiety, generalized anxiety, panic disorder, agoraphobia, specific phobias, and struggles with intense emotions and behaviors. She draws on many evidence-based therapies including cognitive behavioral therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, mindfulness, dialectical behavioral therapy, behavioral activation, and behavior modification. She takes pride in offering empirically-supported treatments and she understands that any successful therapy first requires a strong interpersonal connection and a good working relationship.

Aside from her clinical practice, Emily enjoys presenting at national conferences on topics related to pediatric OCD and parenting anxious children. She stays current on treatment advances and remains an active member of her professional community. At home, Emily is a grateful mom to a toddler, loves camping in her family’s 1995 Toyota HiAce, and is an avid yoga practitioner.

 

Emily Berner, MFT (she/her/hers)

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist MFT81533

San Francisco Bay Area Center for Cognitive Therapy

5464 College Ave Suite C Oakland, CA 94618

510-652-4455 ext 5

eb@sfbacct.com