Rachel Gordon-Eldred, LMFT

Rachel Gordon-Eldred is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 18 years of clinical experience helping individuals, parents, and families navigate transitions, loss, and relationship challenges. Her approach centers on helping clients feel more regulated and grounded so they can reconnect with themselves and others, build resilience, and pursue what she calls a Big Beautiful Life.

She creates a nonjudgmental space where fears, sadness, and ambivalence can be brought forward and explored. Rachel encourages development of a wise mind - the capacity to balance emotion and reason - and supports clients in cultivating a clearer sense of what makes them unique. Trusting what each person shares is a guiding value in her work.

Rachel has focused much of her practice on supporting neurodiverse individuals and families. She works with parents of children who have experienced loss, trauma, ADHD, or Autism Spectrum conditions, and she has particular experience with families managing Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA). She does not support behavioral modification approaches such as ABA.

In addition to parenting and neurodiversity work, Rachel offers expertise in grief, hospice and end-of-life counseling, trauma and abuse recovery, stress and anxiety management, compassion fatigue, and issues related to divorce, communication, guilt, shame, and life purpose. Her practice emphasizes advocacy, empathy, and practical support for caregivers and those facing difficult life changes.