About Samantha
Samantha Eisenhart-Petkovski is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 17 years of experience. She practices in Texas and brings a practical, down-to-earth style to sessions. Samantha aims to build a strong working relationship so people feel heard and understood from the start.
She focuses on common life struggles like stress, anxiety, depression, mood instability, and parenting concerns. She also helps with trauma and abuse, addictions, grief, anger, and issues around intimacy and relationships.
Background and approach
Other areas she addresses include ADHD, caregiver stress, codependency, career shifts, and life purpose questions. Her approach centers on collaboration. Samantha uses client-centered methods and draws on cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavior strategies to help people notice patterns and try different ways of coping.
She also uses emotionally-focused and existential ideas when exploring feelings and meaning. Sessions emphasize strengths and practical skills. Samantha helps people identify coping tools they already have and practice new ones that fit day-to-day life.
She keeps language plain and focuses on steps clients can take between sessions. People who prefer a supportive, empathic therapist who works with clear goals often do well with her. Samantha encourages open communication about techniques and tailors the work to what each person needs.
She aims to guide clients toward better regulation, clearer relationships, and more steady functioning.
How Samantha’s approaches work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on building a trusting relationship and listening carefully to what matters most to the person. It helps when someone needs a calm space to be heard and decide what goals are important to them.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. It teaches practical tools to change unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors for anxiety, depression, and stress management.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, emphasizes skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication. It can be useful for strong emotions, impulsivity, and improving relationships.
Choosing an approach is a team effort. Samantha will talk with each person about their goals, try out techniques, and adjust the plan as needed. The process is collaborative so the work fits the person’s life and preferences.
Online sessions offer flexibility. Video calls let people work face-to-face when schedules or distance are a factor. Phone sessions can be a shorter check-in or work when video isn’t possible. Live chat and text-based messaging let someone check in between sessions or use messages for brief updates and coaching. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy routines and to practice skills in real time.
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What this counselor 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