About Samantha
Samantha Eisenhart-Petkovski is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) who brings 17 years of clinical experience to her practice in Texas. She focuses on helping people handle stress, anxiety, depression, mood concerns, and life changes. Her work also covers parenting strain, relationship and family problems, grief, and substance-related issues.
She favors an individualized, strength-based approach that puts the person first. Samantha listens closely and helps clients identify the abilities they already have.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize practical coping skills and clearer ways to handle everyday problems. Her style blends client-centered methods with cognitive-behavioral and dialectical skills when useful. She also draws on emotionally-focused and existential ideas to help people make sense of relationships and life direction.
Samantha helps people test small changes and notice what works for them. In sessions she stays present, empathetic, and direct. She aims to build a working relationship where clients feel heard and can try new strategies without judgment.
Therapy plans are shaped around each person’s goals and pace. Over the years Samantha has supported people through trauma, caregiver stress, first responder concerns, career transitions, ADHD-related struggles, and issues like codependency, infidelity, and midlife questioning. She encourages honest communication about what techniques fit best and adjusts the approach as work progresses.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Samantha commonly uses Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her work. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely, validating a person’s experience, and building a trusting relationship so the client can explore goals and values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people identify unhelpful thought patterns and practice new ways of responding to stress and mood changes.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Samantha will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide whether to focus on emotion processing, practical skill-building, or a mix of methods, and they adjust the plan over time.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video allows face-to-face conversation for deeper work, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat and text support shorter check-ins or ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or busy schedules while keeping the focus on progress and practical tools.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- 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