Samantha Eisenhart-Petkovski
Trusted support for parents and families
- Credentials
- LPC, LMHC
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed in
- Michigan, Florida, Texas
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Samantha
Samantha Eisenhart-Petkovski is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with 17 years of clinical experience. She practices from Texas and focuses on family and parenting concerns among a broad range of issues like anxiety, depression, trauma, and stress.
Samantha works with people of different ages in individual and group settings, aiming to help them use their strengths to manage daily challenges. She speaks English and brings steady, practical support to sessions.
Background and approach
Her style is warm and collaborative. She listens closely and helps parents and caregivers identify realistic steps they can try at home. Sessions are individualized and often focus on skill building for emotion regulation, communication, and problem solving.
Samantha draws on cognitive behavioral techniques and other approaches to guide this work. She also brings experience with trauma, grief, addictions, ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, and career or life transition issues. That background informs how she supports families through changes, loss, or stress.
When parenting is a central concern, she helps clients set priorities and practice strategies that reduce family conflict and improve daily routines. Samantha emphasizes a strengths-based approach. She helps people notice what already works and build on it.
The relationship in the room is important to her and she aims to create a space where parents and caregivers can talk through fears, setbacks, and small victories. Her approach is practical and down-to-earth. She collaborates on goals and adjusts methods to fit each person’s needs.
For many families, that means clear tools to manage emotions, reduce overwhelm, and improve connections at home.
Therapeutic approaches for online family and parenting work
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on building a trusting relationship and meeting people where they are. This approach lets parents and caregivers feel heard while they figure out what changes matter most to them.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches clear, practical skills for reducing anxiety, managing mood, and changing patterns that get in the way of daily family life.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, offers tools for handling strong emotions and improving communication. Skills from DBT can help parents stay calmer during conflict and support better emotional regulation in the home.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will work with each person to choose and adapt techniques based on goals, family priorities, and comfort with different methods. That collaboration helps make sessions useful from the start.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy families. Video calls let you meet face-to-face from home, while phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging provide shorter or more frequent check-ins when needed. These options help parents fit consistent support into their schedules and practice new skills between meetings.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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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
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