SUPPORTING ADULTS, couples, teens, children and FAMILIES

currently offering in-person and ONLINE THERAPY FOR CA RESIDENTS

Hello, my name is Rachel Eisenstat (she/her) and I am a registered Associate Marriage and Family Therapist and registered Associate Professional Clinical Counselor.

I believe therapy is a tool to bring us into deeper relationship with ourselves and our aliveness.Using a trauma-informed, and somatic-based approach, I aim to support your innate capacity to heal by uplifting your strengths and prioritizing your internal sense of safety and belonging.

My therapeutic style integrates attachment theory, trauma theory, Hakomi Mindfulness Therapy, Parts Work (IFS), and Polyvagal Theory. Drawing from various backgrounds including movement and dance studies, social justice activism, neurodivergent experiences, queer, and spiritual communities, I curate a welcoming and holistic practice. It's an honor to witness your journey.

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How I work: Embracing holistic, mindful, body-based ways of coping and processing to facilitate desired change

As a somatic therapist I recognize the interconnected nature of the body and mind, and how your history and nervous system shape your experiences, and relationships. I help you understand and integrate these embodied patterns to cultivate a coherent, felt sense of being with yourself and the world.

In sessions with me you’ll incorporate intellectual ways of processing, and embrace moments of presence and slowness to access your body’s wisdom. Accessing the body through mindful, compassionate curiosity you can befriend your sensations, and unconscious patterns, helping to gain understanding and autonomy of your emotional narratives. Increasing awareness of sensations, reactions, and emotions, you can unravel deep-seated survival patterns, fostering new ways of being that are rooted in safety, autonomy, compassion, and connection. In your sessions, you can expect to practice nervous system regulation techniques like breathing exercises, mindfulness, movement, and imagery to nurture insight, resilience, and change.

From a holistic perspective, we’ll take into consideration your biological, psychological, social, and spiritual needs, contextualizing your experience from a systems perspective.

“I honor how current systems, generational resilience, trauma, and intersecting identities impact your wellbeing”

— Rachel Eisenstat, AMFT, APCC

What you can expect: Non-judgemental care with an emphasis on honoring your history and boundaries.

I have reverence for the ways in which you have learned to survive, and with practiced embodied awareness, you can start to retire coping mechanisms which may not serve you anymore. It is foundational that you’ll feel heard and seen from a place of compassion and non-judgement. Your boundaries are celebrated in therapy.

Supporting teens and adults with overwhelm, self-criticism and disconnection

I am passionate about supporting individuals who are looking to break cycles of self criticism and reactivity. I understand how easy it can be to feel overwhelmed, disconnected and critical. By utilizing interpersonal, and body-based practices to help self-soothe, you can build resilience in the face of challenge and overwhelm, feel more connected, and build secure, compassionate relationships with yourself, your past, and others.

Supporting couples to communicate with care and understanding

Couples’ therapy aims to increase consciousness around your behaviors, feelings and unmet needs that inevitably come up in relationships. Developing awareness of your present experience and how it relates to your foundational relationships expands your capacity to share in more vulnerable, and connective ways. In therapy you’ll develop tools to help regulate yourself in difficult conversations, and learn how to feel comfortable in both connection and space in your relationships. You’ll focus less on the content of your issues and more on the underlying patterns that arise in difficult circumstances to create new relational patterns of security, understanding, resolve, and, of course, love.

Specialties and Interests

Cultivating mindfulness
Teens struggling with identity, social anxiety, self-worth
Young adults struggling with boundaries, authenticity, self-criticism, and overwhelm
Building a strong sense of Self; confidence, awareness, self-esteem
Attachment based healing
LGBTQIA+: supporting the queer community to thrive
Couples: feeling secure in monogamous and non-monogamous/nontraditional relationships
Grief support
Anxiety regulation
Spirituality and/or Religion
Neurodivergence/ADHD support
Activist Burnout/Compassion Fatigue

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Credentials & Education

M.A. in Counseling Psychology with a Specialization in Somatic Psychology from California Institute of Integral Studies

B.A. in Somatic Psychology from Pitzer College, California
Associate Marriage and Family Therapist with the Board of Behavioral Sciences, AMFT140931
Associate Professional Clinical Counselor with the Board of Behavioral Sciences, APCC14402. Supervised by Krystal Williams, LMFT #110301, LPCC ##7399 and Melody Wright, LMFT #107069. Employed by Life by Design Therapy™.