My practice is open to all and I most enjoy working with queer, neurodivergent, and creative individuals in adolescence, emerging adulthood, and adulthood. The therapy I provide is particularly helpful for individuals managing the impacts of burnout, stress, depression, anxiety, trauma, complex relationships, and challenges around identity and I am committed to creating a supportive space for you to make sense of life experiences and transitions.

I believe a compassionate witness can allow you to be with all your parts, especially the parts you have had to reject to survive. The right therapeutic relationship can serve as a powerful guide in cultivating intentional relationship to self, others, and your communities deepening an overall sense of connection and belonging. In this process, I strive to offer care that is authentic and affirming, leading with a trauma-informed, non-pathologizing, and collaborative approach.

Together we can examine old narratives, re-humanize life experiences, identify limiting patterns, and create new pathways. I love lifting up your own wisdom and honoring ways of being that already work. In session I am warm and direct, allowing space for reflection, creativity, curiosity, slowness, real-life strategies, embodiment, humor, and joy.

I’m a former dance performance artist and community mental health worker with over 10 years of experience in the Bay Area. I have worked as a youth advocate, case manager, school social worker and therapist supporting individuals and families across the lifespan. I identify as white, queer, femme, neurodivergent, Jewish and am committed to my own learning, work, and therapy. Outside of this work and when possible I find myself turning toward the California coast, river days, dance, movement, and art spaces, a good book, a slow meal, and time with loved ones.

Based on your individual needs, I utilize an eclectic approach drawing primarily from relational, somatic, psychodynamic, expressive arts, narrative and internal family systems therapies. Additionally, I am influenced by lived experience, harm reduction, and the work of artists, educators, and organizers committed to liberation from oppressive and supremacist systems.

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

• Individuals
• Other:

• Activists
• Artists
• Gender Fluid or Gender Non-Conforming Individuals
• Highly Sensitive Person/s
• Immigrants
• Interfaith Couples
• LGBTQIAA+ persons
• Persons Experiencing Grief and Loss
• Persons in Polyamorous Relationships
• Persons Recovering from Traumatic Events/Experiences
• Persons with Histories of Physical or Emotional Abuse
• Women

• Experiential Therapy
• Expressive Arts Therapy
• Gestalt Therapy
• Humanistic Therapy
• Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
• Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
• Relational Psychotherapy
• Somatic Psychotherapy
• Trauma-Informed Psychotherapy
• Other:

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$180

$100 - $180

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I currently offer telehealth sessions to residents of California.

• Thursday Morning
• Thursday Afternoon
• Thursday Evening
• Friday Morning
• Friday Afternoon
• Friday Evening

If you are interested in setting up a complimentary 20-minute phone or video consultation, please email me at alix.m@gratefulhearttherapy.org. In this call we will discuss your needs, and if it feels like a good fit schedule our first session.

Rayne Banneck, LMFT #124607

03/08/24