While I am a hippy at heart, my stacks of credentials, decades of experience guiding thousands of families, endless pursuit of post-graduate training and self-study, and personal engagement in the ongoing work of nurturing a peaceful home within myself, my relationships, and my community as a gentle parenting, natural homeschooling, and simple living mother of three (with a mixed race, LGBTQIA+, neurodiverse family) assure that this is not woo.

The heart of healing dwells in the authentic connection we will share, but I’ve also got the mind covered with a Master of Arts degree in Marital and Family Therapy from Alliant International University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology with a minor in Sociology from Northern Arizona University. After 3000 hours of experience and supervision and a 4-hour national exam, I am legally recognized as a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapy Associate (LMFTA #MG61514368).

I work from a fixer upper on the beach of an island in the Pacific Northwest, where I spend my days cheering my kids’ sailboat races, painting the shiplap my husband installs antique white, reading non-fiction books in the hammock, and eating queso and guac with friends, all while inciting a peaceful motherhood revolution.

therapist, coach, writer, podcaster, mentor, advocate

I'm Rachel Rainbolt

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