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About Elisha Bidwell (she/her)
I’m a therapist with 15 years of experience supporting children and families. My work centers on parents of neurodivergent, disabled, and medically complex children—and the burnout, traumatic stress, and grief that can accompany sustained caregiving. I offer a space where you can speak honestly about your experience, including feelings that are difficult to share elsewhere. Your needs, relationships, and sense of yourself deserve attention alongside the care you give.
Drawing on EMDR and somatic approaches, I help you find opportunities for recovery and work through accumulated distress. We also attend to the practical realities of your life: limited support, ongoing demands, and what can realistically change.
My practice is neurodiversity-affirming, disability-affirming, and LGBTQIA-affirming. I value lived experience and respect the knowledge you bring about yourself, your child, and your family.
Some areas of experience that help me support parents like you:
- Autism, PDA, and ADHD
- Sensory Sensitivities
- Complex Trauma and Attachment Wounding
- PANS/PANDAS and Complex Neuroinflammatory Issues
- Hospitalizations and Residential Treatment
- Understanding Stress and Behavior
- School Advocacy
- Parental Burnout
- Traumatic Parenting Stress
- Chronic and Autoimmune Illness
Ways to work together:
Parent Coaching: Practical support for parents of neurodivergent, disabled, and medically complex children whose needs aren’t well understood by conventional parenting advice.
Grounded in relational safety and compassion, we work together to explore what may be driving difficult moments and develop approaches that respect your child’s needs and your own capacity. Coaching can help you navigate boundaries, daily challenges, and advocacy with greater clarity and confidence.
I am a Registered Raising Kids with Big, Baffling Behaviors Course Facilitator, and I'm also a parent to a child with a complex brain and nervous system disability.
Individual Therapy for Chronic Parenting Stress and Burnout: Repeated crises, uncertainty, advocacy, and inadequate support can leave little room to recover. You may feel constantly on alert, emotionally depleted, or disconnected from parts of yourself.
Individual therapy offers a place to attend to your stress, trauma, grief, relationships, and wellbeing. We can work with difficult experiences, explore limits and support, and make space for a life that includes your needs.
My approach draws on EMDR, somatic practices, expressive arts, and an understanding of the realities of high-demand caregiving. We choose our approach together and adjust it as we learn what helps.
EMDR Intensives
I am now offering EMDR Intensives for parents experiencing ongoing, traumatic parenting stress. Parents with chronic, high-stress parenting experiences often face ongoing, unresolved, and repetitive trauma—a form of complex and relational trauma.
Repeated crises, medical experiences, and ongoing uncertainty can leave you feeling on alert long after a difficult moment has passed. EMDR intensives offer dedicated time to work with distressing experiences and their impact on you. Sessions last three to four hours, with time for preparation, focused therapeutic work, breaks, and grounding. We adapt the pace to your needs and circumstances.
A free consultation helps us explore whether an intensive is a good fit for you.
Healing is not the absence of symptoms;
it is the return of choice, flexibility, and aliveness in the body.
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