Meet the Team
Jessica Bany, LMFT
Jessica is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with nearly 20 years of clinical experience, specializing in helping people heal from trauma so they can feel present, grounded and connected in their lives.
She is a trained Internal Family Systems clinician and in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) — two approaches that work powerfully together. IFS helps you to understand and befriend the parts of yourself that have been driving your struggles, while EMDR helps your nervous system process and release what's been stuck. Together they create real, lasting change — not just insight, but genuine healing. And neither approach treats you as broken. They start with the belief that you already have everything you need within you.
Jessica has walked her own healing path. In 2023, she experienced a serious trauma of her own — a mountain bike accident that left her hospitalized and forced her to face acute trauma, fear and the hard work of self acceptance from the inside out. The journey changed her as a person and clinician. She brings that lived experience into the room with every client.
Outside the office, you'll find her on the trails with her Springer Spaniel, driving her classic Mustang, at the SLO city farm where her husband farms, or white knuckling it through her son's driving lessons. She is deeply rooted in the SLO community and grateful for it.
Ana is an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist working under the clinical supervision of Jessica Bany, LMFT. Her path to becoming a therapist is anything but conventional — and that's exactly what makes her effective.
Before training as a clinician, Ana spent years as a classroom teacher, a school outreach coordinator, and an enrollment director for early childhood programs serving thousands of families. She has worked inside the systems that shape young people's lives — schools, community programs, recovery centers — and she understands the world teens and young adults actually inhabit. That background shows up in every session.
There is something she finds magical about the way teens open up when they feel truly safe. As a parent of a teenager herself, she brings both professional insight and lived understanding into the room — she knows this terrain from the inside.
Clinically, Ana has worked with adolescents and adults across a wide range of settings, from weekly outpatient therapy to intensive programs and addiction recovery. That breadth means she is well equipped to meet your child wherever they are — whether they're navigating everyday stress and identity questions, or carrying something heavier that has gone unaddressed for too long.
Ana also offers walk and talk sessions — taking therapy outside, where movement and fresh air help clients relax and open up in ways that feel natural rather than forced.
Ana has done her own meaningful healing work, and she brings that lived understanding into every session.
Ana is currently accepting new clients, with CenCal (Medi-Cal) billing available.
Ana C Mathis, AMFT
