Welcome to Take Care
Take Care is a Cleveland-based psychotherapy practice founded by Gabrielle Banzhaf.
I work with creatives, first-generation and multicultural individuals, couples, and blended families navigating anxiety, identity, relationships, and life transitions. Therapy here is collaborative, direct, culturally responsive and attuned. My approach integrates evidence-based modalities with deep respect for identity, ancestry, and relational context. This is a space for thoughtful reflection and meaningful change — not the performance of positivity.
Alongside psychotherapy, I provide consulting for cultural organizations and creative communities seeking mental health-informed support.
Therapy rooted in honesty, care, and collaboration that understands your cultural complexity & creative identity.
Growth rarely happens through positivity alone. It develops through honest conversation, reflection, and learning to sit with discomfort. Therapy is not about fixing yourself — it is about creating space for curiosity, accountability, and meaningful change.
Many of my clients are adults balancing creative life, cultural expectations, family responsibility, and personal ambition. They are not necessarily in crisis, but they want clarity, stronger communication, emotional stability, and a more grounded sense of self. My approach is relational, structured, evidence-informed and culturally rooted.
Meet Gabrielle Banzhaf
BFA, MSW, LSW
I’m Gabrielle—an Indigenous Peruvian/German therapist 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.