About Rachel
Rachel Gordon-Eldred is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 18 years of experience. She focuses on helping people feel more regulated and connected so they can cope with hard moments and make clearer choices.
Background and approach
Her approach is warm and direct, aimed at practical change rather than jargon. Rachel uses methods that help people understand their relationships and their internal experiences.
She helps parents and caregivers think through tough situations involving ADHD, autism spectrum concerns, grief, and loss. She avoids behavioral modification approaches such as ABA and instead supports problem solving that fits each family's values.
She offers a calm space for people to bring fear, sadness, ambivalence, or doubt. Sessions often include grounding skills to reduce overwhelm and conversations to clarify goals.
Rachel aims to help people build a steadier emotional base so they can respond rather than react. Her work includes support for those facing life changes, compassion fatigue, stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, and the practical strains of caregiving.
She also helps with communication problems, separation and divorce, forgiveness, guilt and shame, and finding life purpose. Rachel has training and experience addressing end-of-life concerns and hospice-related grief.
She centers what each person says and collaborates on tools and plans that fit daily life. People who want clear, compassionate help with everyday and complex losses often find her approach straightforward and supportive.
How therapeutic approaches shape online care
Attachment-based work looks at how people connect and respond to each other. It helps when relationships feel unsafe, distant, or confusing and supports rebuilding trust and closeness. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and upsetting patterns that keep repeating. Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, needs, and what feels comfortable. Together they decide whether attachment work, CBT, or another method fits best and adjust the plan as progress is made. Online therapy offers several flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people use body language and screen-sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a busy day. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in between sessions or do shorter, frequent updates. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or caregiving schedules, and to use practical tools from session to daily life.Frequently asked questions
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also works with
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English