I provide psychotherapy to teens and adults seeking a non-judgmental space to work through their painful and “messy” experiences. These might include anxiety, panic, depression, relationship issues, disordered eating, or suicidal ideation. Rather than grabbing the Clorox, I help clients explore how and why their symptoms came to be. As clients better understand themselves, they often feel profoundly relieved. From this place, we can identify new coping skills that feel useful. Ultimately, I hope to help clients make peace with “messy”, so they can feel more wholly themselves.

I myself am a millennial woman continually reckoning with my own messiness, and trying to feel more wholly myself. I have done much of this work as a client in psychotherapy. Other things that help me feel whole include: parenting my dog-son, creating art, watching reality television, spending time outdoors, laughing with friends until my abs hurt, and eating ice cream with rainbow sprinkles.

I grew up in the Bay Area, and have experienced its upsides (e.g. multiculturalism) and downsides (e.g. income inequality). After earning my bachelor's degree in Design from UC Davis, I worked as a seamstress for nearly a decade before moving into the mental health field. I earned my master's degree in Counseling Psychology from the Wright Institute, and have since worked mostly with delightfully sassy adolescents.

I can help by fostering a judgment-free relationship, where no feelings, thoughts, or behaviors are too messy to explore. I specialize in relational and psychodynamic work, which not only addresses symptoms, but also a client's broader sense of self. Additionally, I have training in Intuitive Eating.

Relational: I believe as we relate to one another, we grow together. This is why I focus on building therapy relationships that are non-judgmental and that welcome messiness. During sessions, I am authentically myself (e.g. expressive, dark-humored), encouraging clients to do the same. I also allow clients to lead the way, while I track how the material they bring to sessions connects with larger patterns and with our goals.

Psychodynamic: I believe that clients’ feelings, thoughts, and behaviors exist for unconscious and self-protective reasons. For example, a client who cuts may be unknowingly protecting themselves from an emotional flood by controlling their own physical pain. As clients understand such patterns, they can increase their self-compassion and decrease their shame, making room to develop new coping skills.

Intuitive Eating: Intuitive Eating is framework and practice that helps clients to: question diet culture and anti-fat bias, get in touch with their bodies’ cues and responses, explore satisfaction and fullness, kindly tend to emotional responses, and to engage in authentically self-caring nutrition and movement.

I use a systems-based lens, which focuses on how clients are impacted by their family, community, and broader societal systems. I also try to acknowledge my various privileges, and to ally with those who experience systemic inequity. I am particularly passionate about helping to dismantle diet culture and anti-fatness, approaching client cases using Intuitive Eating and Health at Every Size frameworks.

• Teens: 13-17
• Young Adult: 18-25
• Adults: 26-65

• Individuals

• Highly Sensitive Person/s
• Women

• Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
• Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
• Relational Psychotherapy
• Other:

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$150

$90-$150

Yes

(415) 488-5532

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I am currently meeting with clients exclusively via telehealth.

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• Monday Evening
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To schedule a no-charge 20-minute consultation, please email me at moriah@gratefulhearttherapy.org, or call me at (415) 488-5532.

Rayne Banneck, LMFT #124607

03/01/24