Welcome to Take Care
Take Care is a psychotherapy and mental health consulting practice founded by curator and clinical social worker Gabrielle Banzhaf. The practice focuses on working with artists, creatives, couples, blended families, and individuals navigating cultural identity, life transitions, and relational growth.
Take Care provides individualized therapy alongside consulting services for arts organizations and creative communities, offering thoughtful, collaborative support designed to sustain both personal wellbeing and creative practice.
Therapy rooted in honesty, collaboration, and care.
Life doesn’t move forward through positivity alone. Growth happens through conversation, discomfort, reflection, and learning to sit with what’s hard—together.
I believe that meaningful change comes from collaboration, sustained dialogue, and honest self-examination. Therapy is not about fixing yourself or performing wellness. It’s about creating a space where curiosity, failure, and uncertainty are allowed—so something new can emerge.
I work with individuals, couples, and families who are navigating identity, relationships, creativity, cultural complexity, and transition. My approach is grounded, relational, and direct, with deep respect for lived experience.
Meet Gabrielle Banzhaf
I’m Gabrielle—an Indigenous Peruvian/German therapist, consultant, and curator based in Cleveland, Ohio.
My early childhood was spent traveling the world on a ship with my parents, who worked as global humanitarians. I lived in Sweden, South Africa, Peru, and Brazil, growing up among people from vastly different cultural, religious, and socioeconomic backgrounds. From an early age, I learned that identity is layered, relationships are negotiated, and belonging is not simple—but it is deeply human.
Being raised by parents with strong and distinct cultural identities often left me feeling split—between languages, expectations, and ways of being. Over time, I came to understand that blended identities, blended families, and cultural in-between spaces are not deficits—they are sources of insight, resilience, and creativity. That understanding now informs both my clinical work and my values as a therapist.
I am also a single mother. Becoming a parent at a young age fundamentally reshaped how I understand responsibility, boundaries, grief, and growth. Parenting without consistent support forced me to mature quickly, confront my limitations, and learn—often the hard way—how to care for myself while caring for someone else. These experiences deeply inform my work with single parents, blended families, and caregivers.