Like all things in the natural world, death feeds new life: your wounds, traumas, and losses can be the compost to nourish a more vibrant life to come. You may be struggling with grief, loneliness, fear about the future, confusion about who you are and what you want out of life. These challenges are invitations to awaken into a more openhearted, fulfilling, and purposeful human existence. I am a guide who has traveled these dark and mysterious landscapes and feel called to support you in your unique becoming.

My particular area of passion and interest is the Heroine’s Journey to the Underworld. What is that, you may ask? Unlike the masculine Hero’s Journey (aka Joseph Campbell) which is a masculine quest up and out into the wild unknown with the mission to conquer and emerge victorious on the earthly plane, the Heroine’s journey is a descent inwards and downwards into the often terrifying and mysterious Underworld. It’s a call and an invitation to know, reclaim, and honor feminine power and wisdom. It requires the sacrifice and transmutation of something, often in the form of a comfortable identity that prevents a more whole person from emerging. Once the treasure is found below, the Heroine can re-emerge up to earthly plane with a newfound power and authentic sense of self.

An Underworld journey may manifest in the form of depression, grief, numbness, a collapse in your life as you know it. Sometimes it’s initiated by a dramatic life change like a personal illness, new motherhood, the loss of an important relationship or divorce. Other times, it seems as if your symptoms came from nowhere.

In our work together, I will serve as your guide to the Underworld. It’s terrain that I know well and for which I hold immense respect and reverence.

As a therapist, I am warm, relational, and deeply empathic. Our connection and a shared sense that we are a good fit for one another is essential. I place a high value on forming a strong therapeutic relationship so that you can feel safe and supported to do the hard work that is necessary for lasting change.

My role as a therapist is a soul calling and is very much integrated into the fabric of my life as a whole.

I am a mother, a daughter, and a messy human in good company. I am a traveler, a homemaker, a tender of plants, and a lover of animals. I am a life-long spiritual seeker, yogini, and devotee of the cycles of earth and cosmos. I am endlessly amazed that seeds turn into trees. Fall is my favorite season and I start yearning for it as soon as mid-July rolls around.

I graduated from Pacifica Graduate Institute with a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology with an emphasis in Depth Psychology. While my training included all the required education to become a marriage and family therapist, it also integrated holistic theories and modalities that acknowledge the presence of not only mind, brain, and behavior, but also the soul, spirit, body, and collective web of life. I also have extensive training in yoga, including a Master of Arts in Yoga Studies from Loyola Marymount University where I studied the embodied practices as well as the historical and philosophical foundations of yoga and other Indian spiritual traditions.

Life's challenges carry the potential to be catalysts for profound transformation. I aim to hear the unconscious wisdom hidden within your symptoms. What is longing to be heard, seen, acknowledged, expressed? What is your soul asking you to explore? When we attend to our suffering with reverence and compassion, often our symptoms diminish and we ripen into fuller maturity, feel more alive, and discover deeper meaning and intimacy with life. I see therapy as a sacred container to do this work.

My practice is rooted in depth psychology​, ​including ​contemporary ​Jungian psychotherapy,​ psychoanalysis, ​and ​archetypal psychology. I also draw on various somatic theories and practices to better understand the wisdom of the body, to cultivate nervous system regulation and co-regulation, and to expand our capacity to be with whatever life presents.

My style is warm, relational, and collaborative. I give great attention to soul, body, the conscious feminine, and connection to the natural world. I will draw upon mythology, archetypes, yoga, mediation, breathwork, and ritual in our healing work together. I would be honored to support you on your journey.

I hold dear the notion that we are much more than our individual selves. We are all threads of an interconnected and interdependent web of life and must understand ourselves – our health and dis-ease – within the greater communal contexts of culture, society, earth, and cosmos. I believe that the ultimate work of healing the soul of the individual is to bring back the medicine to heal the soul of the world.

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Please email me at tracy.s@gratefulhearttherapy.org to set up a complimentary 15 minute phone consultation to determine if we are a good fit.

Rayne Banneck LMFT#124607

08/21/24