meet rachel
SUPPORTING ADULTS, couples, teens, children and FAMILIES
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 a 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.
Embracing holistic, mindful, body-based ways of coping and processing to facilitate desired change
This means that I’ll 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. From a holistic perspective, we’ll take into consideration your biological, psychological, social, and spiritual needs, contextualizing your experience from a systems perspective.
boundaries are celebrated in therapy
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 that may not serve you anymore. It is foundational that you’ll feel heard and seen from a place of compassion and non-judgement.
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, resolution, and, of course, love.
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™.
Specialties and Interests
Cultivating mindfulness
Teens struggling with identity, social anxiety, and self-worth
Young adults struggling with boundaries, authenticity, self-criticism, and overwhelm
Building a strong sense of Self, confidence, awareness, and 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
Certifications & Trainings
Ketamine Therapy Provider Training — Alchemy, 2023
Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness — CSP, 2022
Somatic Soul Coach Training — Somatic Soul Coach School, 2018
Holistic Health Coach — Institute of Integrative Nutrition, 2017
Journey Dance Facilitator — Training Journey Dance, 2017
Herbal Medicine Training — Northeast School of Botanical Medicine, 2017
Social Justice Leadership Intensive — Off the Mat, Into the World, 2016
Kripalu Yoga Teacher — Kripalu, 2015