In-person + virtual therapy in Ohio • Virtual therapy in Texas
Depth-oriented psychotherapy with Airielle Banaszak gives adults—especially women 35+—a grounded place to move through burnout, chronic illness, caregiving, grief, identity changes, and major life transitions while rebuilding trust in themselves.
You have spent years being capable, responsible, and dependable. Other people count on you—and you have learned how to keep going even when you are depleted.
Maybe your body or health has changed and the life you expected no longer fits. Maybe caregiving has consumed so much of you that you are not sure what is yours anymore. Maybe your children need you differently, a relationship has changed, or you have reached a point in midlife when the roles that once defined you no longer feel like enough.
From the outside, your life may look fine. Inside, you may feel exhausted, resentful, disconnected, uncertain, or caught by a question you can no longer ignore:
“Who am I now—and what do I actually want?”
You do not need another set of instructions for becoming better at carrying everything.
Therapy can become a place to understand how you got here, listen to what your emotions and body are telling you, and begin making choices that include you, too.
You may be exceptionally good at getting things done, anticipating other people's needs, and pushing through. Therapy can help you understand what keeps you in over-functioning patterns and develop ways of caring, contributing, and connecting that do not require continually abandoning your own needs.
Illness can affect far more than your body. It can change identity, relationships, independence, work, plans for the future, and your sense of trust in yourself. Therapy can make room for grief and uncertainty while helping you reconnect with meaning, agency, and the person you are becoming.
When you are accustomed to being the person everyone relies on, receiving care yourself can feel unfamiliar—or even uncomfortable. We can explore exhaustion, resentment, guilt, boundaries, responsibility, and the question of who you are beyond what you provide for everyone else.
Change often brings grief—even when the change is wanted or necessary. Children grow, relationships change or end, bodies and health change, losses accumulate, priorities shift, and identities that once fit may no longer feel like your own. Therapy can provide space to grieve what has been lost, honor what mattered, and begin discovering who you are in the life that exists now.
Practical coping skills, symptom relief, and CBT-informed tools can be genuinely useful. They can help you find steadier ground and respond differently in difficult moments. Sometimes, though, the same struggles keep returning because the patterns beneath them have not yet been understood or changed.
Therapy can make room for both: support for what is happening now and deeper work with the experiences, beliefs, relationships, and protective strategies that continue to shape your life.
At Realize Your Path, depth-oriented psychotherapy means looking beyond the immediate symptom to understand the patterns, experiences, beliefs, relationships, and protective strategies underneath it.
That does not mean ignoring practical coping skills. Sometimes you need something that helps you get through Tuesday. But we can also become curious about why the same struggles keep returning, what your reactions may be protecting, and whether ways of coping that once helped you survive are still serving the person you are now.
Insight matters, but insight alone is not the goal. We work toward changes you can experience in your body, relationships, boundaries, choices, and everyday life.
Therapy with me is integrative rather than one-size-fits-all. Depending on what you need, our work may draw from CBT and ACT, meaning-centered approaches, mindfulness, guided imagery, nervous-system awareness, somatic practices, and deeper exploration of the patterns and beliefs shaping how you relate to yourself and others.
The goal is not to use a particular technique for its own sake. It is to understand what keeps repeating, build greater psychological flexibility and self-trust, and help change become something you can actually live—not simply understand intellectually.
For some clients, questions about meaning, intuition, purpose, spirituality, or existential change are an important part of what brings them to therapy. You do not need to leave those parts of yourself outside the room.
Spiritual exploration is always client-led. You do not need to hold any particular spiritual or religious beliefs to work with me, and spirituality does not need to be part of your therapy at all.
Realize Your Path is not primarily designed for clients seeking substance-use treatment, court-mandated treatment, child therapy, or intensive/crisis-level behavioral health services.
If you are experiencing a mental health emergency or need immediate crisis support, call or text 988 or contact emergency services in your area.
Realize Your Path is located in Fairview Park on Cleveland's west side. I provide in-person and virtual psychotherapy for adults in Ohio and virtual psychotherapy for clients in Texas.
Whether we meet in the office or by telehealth, therapy is individualized, collaborative, and designed to make room for both practical support and deeper exploration.
Realize Your Path accepts several insurance plans for eligible psychotherapy services, including Aetna, Devoted Health, Medicare Part B, Medical Mutual, Molina, and United Healthcare. Review psychotherapy pricing, insurance, sliding-scale, and superbill information.
Insurance applies to psychotherapy only when benefits are active and the service is clinically appropriate. Transpersonal coaching, Reiki, and wellness groups are separate self-pay, non-clinical services and are not psychotherapy or mental health treatment. If you are deciding between pathways, read more about therapy vs. coaching.
No. Realize Your Path works with adults, with a particular focus on women approximately 35 and older who are navigating burnout, chronic illness, caregiving, identity changes, grief, and major life transitions.
No. Burnout is one common reason people seek therapy here, but the work may also include chronic illness, caregiving, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship changes, identity questions, life transitions, meaning, and feeling disconnected from yourself.
Previous therapy can still be valuable even if you feel there is more to understand. Practical tools and CBT-informed strategies may be part of our work, while therapy can also explore recurring patterns, relationships, nervous-system responses, meaning, identity, and how past experiences continue to shape the present.
Yes, if it is meaningful to you. Spiritual or existential questions can be explored as part of psychotherapy when they are relevant to your goals. This is always client-led, and no particular spiritual or religious belief is expected.
Yes. In-person psychotherapy is available in Fairview Park, Ohio. Virtual psychotherapy is available to clients located in Ohio, and virtual psychotherapy is also available to clients located in Texas.
Yes. Realize Your Path accepts several insurance plans for eligible psychotherapy services and also offers self-pay psychotherapy. A limited sliding scale may be available when appropriate, and superbills can be provided for out-of-network benefits. See current pricing and insurance information.
Ready to explore whether we are a good fit? In-person and virtual psychotherapy are available in Ohio, with virtual psychotherapy also available in Texas.
