A Coordinated Clinical Unit
You are not passed between siloed specialists. Your team operates under a shared conceptual map: psychotherapist, somatic practitioner, nutritionist, breathwork specialist, ensuring coherence across every intervention.
51+ years of combined clinical experience. One unified approach.
Yoni Banayan, LMFT
Founder & Lead Psychotherapist
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
Yoni built Earth's Edge Wellness from a singular conviction: that intelligent, driven individuals don't stay stuck because they lack insight. They stay stuck because standard care hasn't addressed the right level of the system. He integrates bioenergetics, somatic experiencing, IFS, psychodrama, and psychodynamic approaches, selecting the modality that fits the person, not forcing the person into a single framework.
"Diagnostic labels are tools for communication, not definitive truths. Symptoms represent unexpressed talents or adaptive mechanisms. Our job is to help clients reconnect with these aspects so they become strengths."
Chelsea Clarke, RD
Registered Dietitian & Nutritionist
Registered Dietitian Nutritionist, Certified Personal Trainer
Chelsea brings a client-centered methodology that addresses the full complexity of each person's relationship with food and body. She guides clients through nutritional change by identifying and resolving the real obstacles: examining dietary beliefs, strengthening nutritional understanding, and finding sustainable motivations that go beyond willpower.
"Her work is as much mental as it is physical. She's intuitive and understands how to work with mental and physical well-being together." — Whitney, Dayton
Cosmin Mahadev
Somatic & Energetic Practitioner
Reiki, Meditation, Kundalini, Pranayama, Spiritual Counseling
Cosmin specializes in the energetic and somatic dimensions of healing: Reiki, meditation, Kundalini yoga, pranayama, and spiritual counseling. His work addresses the layers of experience that talk therapy alone cannot reach, providing clients with embodied practices that support nervous system regulation and internal coherence.
Laura Higgins
Equine-Assisted Therapy Specialist
Animal-Assisted Therapy Practitioner
Laura provides equine-assisted therapy, a powerful modality that uses the horse-human relationship to surface and process emotional patterns in real time. This work bypasses intellectual defenses and creates opportunities for genuine, felt experience that supports the broader clinical process.
Judy Litvak
Career & Identity Coach
Special Educator, Career Coach
Judy helps clients, particularly younger adults, explore their identities, passions, and professional direction. As clients move through the later phases of treatment, Judy's work supports the critical transition from symptom-driven identity to values-based living and purposeful decision-making.
How We Work Together
“Coherence across the team is not a luxury. It is the intervention.”
Every member of your team shares the same clinical framework, the same understanding of your case, and the same treatment goals. When your nutritionist adjusts a protocol, your therapist knows why. When your somatic practitioner surfaces something in a session, the entire team integrates it. This is what makes our model fundamentally different from coordinated referrals between independent providers.
Ready to Meet Your Team?
Our admissions process begins with a confidential clinical assessment. We assemble your team based on your specific clinical needs.
Apply for Clinical Assessment