About Samantha
Samantha Eisenhart-Petkovski is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with 17 years of clinical experience. She practices from Texas and helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, parenting challenges, mood struggles, and addiction concerns. Her work centers on building a steady, trusting relationship first so people feel heard and understood.
She uses plain, practical techniques drawn from several approaches to help clients on day-to-day problems.
How Samantha works
Samantha listens carefully, points out individual strengths, and teaches coping skills people can use between sessions. Her style is warm, supportive, and goal-oriented while still allowing space to process difficult feelings. Over nearly two decades she has supported people through grief, relationship and family difficulties, career transitions, compassion fatigue, and issues tied to first responder and veteran experiences.
She also works with concerns such as ADHD, bipolar mood challenges, impulsivity, and recovery from infidelity or abandonment. Sessions are collaborative. Samantha helps clients set clear goals and chooses strategies that fit each person’s needs.
She often blends client-centered listening with cognitive-behavioral and dialectical techniques to target unhelpful thoughts and build more effective behaviors. People seeking practical tools and steady support often find her approach helpful. Samantha aims to meet each person where they are, focus on strengths, and guide them toward manageable change over time.
Samantha lists 10 ways of working on the entry:
What Samantha works with
The areas below are the ones Samantha selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Registers | LPC, LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 17 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Approaches and online therapy options
Client-centered therapy focuses on a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship where the therapist follows the client's lead and helps them notice their own strengths. This approach is helpful for people who need understanding and emotional support while they sort out goals.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions influence each other. Samantha uses simple CBT exercises to help people challenge unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors that reduce anxiety or improve mood.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches skills for managing intense emotions, reducing impulsivity, and improving relationships. It can be useful for people who need concrete tools for coping with strong feelings or distress.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. Samantha will work with each person to choose methods that match their concerns, goals, and preferences, adjusting the plan over time as needs change.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when bandwidth permits. Phone sessions can fit a quick check-in or work better when audio is all that’s needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in between sessions or use shorter exchanges for updates and coaching. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, school, or caregiving commitments.
Start online instead of waiting
Our partner service asks a few questions about what you are looking for and matches you with a therapist for sessions from home.
Book with SamanthaWe will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you.
Common questions
What kinds of problems does she help with?
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
How much clinical experience does she have?
What credentials does she hold and where is she based?
Can I work with her if I live outside the United States?
Which session formats are available?
How are sessions paid for and what do they cost?
What are the first steps to begin working together?
A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
We will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you. Entries are not assessed or endorsed by this directory.
Other entries for stress, anxiety
Supportive LCSW helping people build strength and clarity
Practical, trauma-aware therapy for everyday life
Practical, relational therapy for life transitions