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​​​​​​​​​Eric Bottino, PhD, MFT​​​ 

About  

I am a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (MFC 46755) with the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. I am also a lifetime clinical member of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (www.camft.org). 


Since the beginning of my clinical work, I have gained experience working with children, adolescents, adults, and families with challenges ranging from severe mental illness (e.g., schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, anorexia) to trauma, abuse (emotional, physical, sexual), anxiety, depression and difficulties adjusting to life-changing circumstances (e.g., death of a loved one, divorce, transitioning through the family life cycle).  
I also volunteered to work with veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.

In 2005, after my graduate work, I did part of my training at the Bonita House Creative Living Center (now Berkeley Creative Wellness Center), a socializing program for adults with severe mental illness. The experience of leading groups, providing individual and in milieu therapy made me aware that mental illness happens on a continuum and that care needs to be tailored to each individual. 


I then worked with Edgewood Center for Children and Families, a non-profit organization for four years. My practice was based in the community and at schools where I was a consultant for the San Francisco Unified School District. I served inner city children and families of low socioeconomic status who were in perpetual crisis. I quickly gathered that in order to promote psychological change in children you had to engage the family. Transformation in the child's primary living system can generate long-lasting change. 


In 2010, I joined Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute at UCSF and continued to work as a family therapist for the Young Adult and Family Center. As an assistant clinical professor, I instructed students, residents, and fellows and directed a general assessment clinic for children, adolescents, and young adults. As I continued to deepen my work with families, I gained extensive experience with adolescents and young adults suffering from eating disorders. In 2014, I was supervised by Daniel Le Grange which broadened my understanding of the refeeding process in anorectic patients. Working collaboratively with physicians, nutritionists, and social workers from UCSF adolescent and young adult medicine was a critical part of treatment and a key to the successful outcomes in treating eating disorders.


In 2016, I left UCSF to be in private practice only and opened an office in Rockridge. I work psychodynamically with individuals, use system theory, attachment theory, and behaviorism in family therapy, and my couples work is inferred by EFT.   


Languages

English - French - Spanish