Park Lecture

Banta Whitner, LCSW (she/her) comes to Ancestral Lineage Healing from a 40 year career as an integrative psychotherapist, helping clients work through trauma, grief, LGBTQ+ issues, relationship struggles and life transitions. Banta brings her own elder wisdom to the practice of ancestral healing. She is honored to engage her clients in issues around death and dying, and to help them prepare themselves or their own elders for easeful passage into the larger collective of their ancestors.

Banta is a daughter of early settler colonialists to North America, primarily from Scotland, Britain, Wales, Northern Europe and the Netherlands. She is a white bodied, cis-gendered U.S. citizen deeply committed to cultural healing with regard to racial equity and social justice, gender inclusivity, decolonization practices, historical truth-telling, dismantling white supremacy, and Earth reconnection.

Banta sees English-speaking clients from around the world, including therapists and other healing practitioners. She is especially drawn to work with individuals who have benefited from therapy or other personal growth work, but have reached a stuck place. If I’ve done all this therapy, why do I still feel like I’m carrying problems that don’t belong to me, that aren’t part of my own lived experience? This is where ancestral healing begins.