About Rachel
Rachel Gordon-Eldred is a California-based licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) with 18 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people feel more regulated and centered so they can connect with themselves and others. Rachel offers a calm, nonjudgmental space where parents and caregivers can bring hard feelings and figure out next steps.
She uses practical conversations to help people think through difficult situations. Sessions often include grounding skills, emotion regulation strategies, and clear problem-solving so daily life feels more manageable.
Background and approach
Rachel emphasizes listening first and following the client’s lead. Rachel has a history of working with parents of children who have experienced loss, trauma, ADHD, or Autism Spectrum needs. She supports caregivers navigating demanding behaviors without recommending behavioral modification approaches such as ABA.
Her work also covers caregiver stress and communication problems that arise in strained household dynamics. Grief and end-of-life concerns are another area of focus. She brings experience in hospice and bereavement work and helps people talk through guilt, forgiveness, and meaning after loss.
These sessions tend to combine practical coping tools with space for emotions. Rachel draws from attachment-based and client-centered ideas, along with cognitive behavioral and solution-focused techniques. That mix keeps sessions grounded and tailored to each person’s goals.
She invites people to bring ambivalence, questions, and messy feelings to the work. People interested in starting can expect straightforward guidance and collaborative planning. Rachel aims to help clients build the skills they need to live a fuller, more connected life.
Therapeutic approaches for regulation and connection online
Rachel often draws on attachment-based ideas that focus on how relationships shape emotions and behaviors, helping clients strengthen how they relate to others and to themselves. This approach can be useful when working through parenting struggles, caregiver stress, or challenges tied to relationship patterns.She also uses client-centered therapy, which centers the person’s own goals and experience. In practice this means sessions begin with listening and reflection, then move toward whatever the client identifies as most important - whether that is emotion regulation, communication skills, or handling daily stresses.
Additionally, Rachel integrates cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes, and solution-focused methods to set short-term, achievable goals. These approaches are practical and help people build routines that reduce overwhelm and improve daily functioning.
Finding the right mix is collaborative. The therapist will work with each person to decide which approaches fit their needs, goals, and preferences. Clients are invited to give feedback so the plan can be adjusted as therapy progresses.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between synchronous sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy caregiving schedule or a changing routine.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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