Psychotherapy for Families & Adults
Phone consultations are free and encouraged to make sure that Gina Fahouri will be the right provider to help you with your concerns.
Gina Fahouri is 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.
My practice is client specific and incorporates solution focused behavior therapy, motivational interviewing, harm reduction and mindfulness. I work hard to understand my clients and their unique skills and talents and chances are that you can use your skills and talents to make positive changes. Mindfulness, motivational interviewing and harm reduction can you help recognize when you’re ready for change, when those changes are occurring, how to make more change and also tolerate the times that changes aren’t happening in the way or at the pace you had imagined. I strive to show respect for the cultural values and priorities of my clients and their families. When I work with families my goal is to help the family heal from emotional injuries that have driven family members apart. I focus on helping family members understand each other’s experiences, rebuild connection and create new paths forward in their family life.
Individual therapy to improve self-worth and quality of life begins with identifying the issues that are causing you the most distress and also in describing how you would like to resolve those issues. We will find ways for you to use your unique skills, strengths and resources so that you can make progress towards those goals and plan for an effective ending of therapy services.
Family therapy can promote healing from difficult transitions, painful events and emotional injuries that have stressed the families’ foundation. Cultural differences, blended families, illness and divorce are examples of why someone might seek family therapy. It can be helpful to family members of all ages, and my focus is in working with adults, their siblings and their parents/caregivers.
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