Bay Area Community Counseling and
The Family Institute of Berkeley’s
2025 Annual Fundraiser!

Come join us on Saturday, February 8th in Mill Valley for Bay Area Community Counseling’s 2025 Annual Fundraiser! The theme this year will be Favorite Decades Party where DJ Airsun will be starting off the night with 70s and moving through the decades to the 2000s by the end of the night. We’ll be having a costume contest for best dressed decade, and we’ll have SF’s favorite drag queen, Elsa Touche, as our MC and auctioneer. There will be wine and beer donated by local wineries and breweries and small bites and paella donated by De Fount-Haberlin Spanish & Portuguese Catering and Good Earth Natural Foods supermarket in Mill Valley. You’ll have a great time and support a great cause! See below for photos from our 2024 80’s Party in Sausalito. It’s a great opportunity to celebrate connection whether you’re celebrating Valentine’s Day, Galentine’s Day or Palintine’s Day! Bring your friends, family and colleagues. Come join us!

BACC has been providing low fee therapy since 2011 to hundreds of clients. There are so many people in need of therapy and its hard to find effective therapy when you don’t have the financial means, especially when having needs for expertise in areas of family therapy, ADHD treatment, couples therapy, anxiety and OCD treatment, therapy for children and teens, treatment for depression, and a number of other issues. We provide services in person in Marin, San Francisco, the East Bay, the Peninsula, and the South Bay and throughout California via Zoom. Our Bay Area community is one large community, so come help support!

We also have our Family Institute of Berkeley, which is part of BACC and provides services through BACC, as well as providing training for clinicians in family therapy, using the “one way mirror” approach with a team helping a family. This is done via Zoom, so that clinicians throughout the U.S. and world can attend trainings and develop their skills working systemically with families and couples.

BACC is raising funds to be able to provide more services to those in need. Currently, BACC provides therapy on a sliding scale, as well as those who qualify for Victim’s Compensation, Aetna Health Insurance, and Cigna insurance. With donations, we’ll be able to provide services to more clients at a lower rate, as well as contract with counties and other insurance plans to provide more services to children, families, couples, and adults in financial need. Donations also enable us to train the next generation of therapists in culturallly competent, effective, up to date, evidence based treatments to best help our clients!

To learn more about our director, Dr. Keith Sutton, check out a recent interview from Shrink Rap Radio. Dr. Dave had some wonderful things to say about Dr. Sutton’s work in his commentary at the end.

Can’t make it? Please sign up on our list to be notified when the date comes out for our fundraiser for 2026 and go to our donations page if you’d like to make a donation today to support BACC!

Want to help? Whether its ideas for throwing a good fundraiser, knowing of donors, wanting to join the fundraising committee, ideas for items for the auction, or anything, we’d love to have your help in supporting providing therapy to those in need! Please fill out the form here if you’d like to help out!

If you have ideas for donations for our silent or live auction, or ideas for sponsors for the event, please click below and send us the information!

2024 Annual Fundraiser

Our 2024 Annual Fundraiser is over, but there is still time to donate! You can donate through paypal here or Venmo @SF-BACC

The 80’s Party was a big hit and the ‘85s were an amazing band! We had a lot of fun and our silent auction and live auction were a great success! We raised money to help more children, teens, families, couples and adults in financial need afford effective, evidence based therapy. Thank you all for your support!

Check Out the Photos From Our 2024 Event

Thank You for Organizations Who Donated for Our Silent and Live Auction!