Welcome to Take Care

Take Care, founded by curator and clinical social-work clinician Gabrielle Banzhaf is a specialized mental-health consulting practice serving artists, arts organizations, and creative communities.

Working at both individual and organizational levels, Take Care offers tailored support—from one-on-one therapy to large-scale wellness consulting—designed to meet every creative need.

Our approach

Take Care’s methodology combines deep respect for artistic practice with a clinical social-work perspective. We provide sliding-scale mental-health consulting and individual therapy specifically tailored to the needs of artists and creative organizations.

By weaving clinical rigor with curatorial and artistic insight, Take Care guides clients from crisis management to culture building. Whether partnering with galleries and nonprofits or supporting individual artists, Gabrielle Banzhaf’s dual-lens expertise ensures mental wellness becomes an integral strand in every exhibition, residency, and studio practice—fostering resilience, sparking innovation, and nurturing sustainable careers in the arts.

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Meet Gabrielle Banzhaf

BFA // MSW LSW

Gabrielle Banzhaf is an Indigenous Peruvian/German curator, cultural preservationist, and mental health consultant based in Cleveland, Ohio. Rooted in both artistic practice and clinical social work, she empowers creatives and organizations to thrive at the intersection of art and mental wellness. Leveraging her BFA background, curatorial experience, and clinical training, Gabrielle offers sliding-scale mental-health consulting and individual therapy that integrate creative processes, evidence-informed interventions, and a curator’s sensibility for narrative and ritual.

Her work moves clients from crisis-management to culture-building—ensuring that care, creativity, and sustainability become foundational strands in every exhibition, residency, and studio practice. Through collective gestures of ritual, care, and memory, Gabrielle inhabits and honors spaces where public and private life collide, embrace, and interweave.

Take Care, today.