About Samantha
Samantha Eisenhart-Petkovski is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with 17 years of experience. She practices from Texas and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, mood concerns, and life transitions. Samantha aims to build a strong working relationship where clients feel heard and supported from the start.
Samantha favors a practical, strength-focused approach. She helps people identify their existing skills and learn ways to use them more effectively.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and goal-oriented, with an emphasis on clear communication about what techniques feel most helpful. Her work often includes strategies drawn from cognitive behavioral approaches and dialectical behavior ideas, along with client-centered listening and emotionally-focused methods when relationships or attachment come up. She uses methods that fit a person’s needs rather than a one-size-fits-all plan.
Samantha has experience addressing a wide range of concerns such as depression, trauma and abuse, parenting stress, self-esteem, grief, addictions, ADHD, and career-related challenges. She also supports people coping with life changes, caregiver strain, codependency, and forgiveness work. The therapy style is empathetic and present.
Samantha stays focused on practical tools and clearer thinking while validating emotions. She invites clients to take small steps toward their goals and to use therapy as a space to practice new ways of responding. Getting started involves a simple matching process and scheduling.
Samantha encourages open conversation about goals and how sessions should be structured to fit each person’s situation.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a strong connection. The therapist follows the person’s lead, reflects what they say, and helps them clarify goals and values. This approach is useful when someone needs empathy and space to make sense of their feelings.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. Sessions include practical exercises and homework to practice new skills between meetings. CBT is commonly used for anxiety, stress, depression, and mood challenges.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. It can help when emotions feel overwhelming or when relationships are a source of repeated conflict.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will work with each person to identify goals, try methods that seem likely to help, and adjust techniques over time based on what feels effective. Clients are invited to give feedback so the plan stays relevant to their needs.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for a simpler check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging suit brief check-ins, ongoing support between sessions, or people who prefer written communication. These options help therapy fit into work, caregiving, or school schedules without extra travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Michigan, Florida, Texas
- Languages
- English
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