Samantha Eisenhart-Petkovski, LPC, LMHC

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, depression, relationship concerns, parenting challenges, and mood instability. Her work aims to help clients notice strengths and use them to move forward in daily life.

Samantha builds sessions around a respectful, collaborative relationship. She listens and works with each person to set realistic goals and practical steps. Her style is supportive and down-to-earth, with an emphasis on what helps a person in their everyday roles and routines.

In the counseling room she draws on client-centered methods and cognitive-behavioral ideas to identify helpful habits and thoughts. She also uses dialectical behavior therapy and emotionally-focused approaches when emotion regulation and connection are central concerns. Therapy is tailored to the person and their goals rather than one fixed method.

Over her career she has worked with a wide range of issues including trauma and abuse, addiction, grief, intimacy-related problems, anger, ADHD, and caregiving stress. She also addresses life transitions such as divorce, midlife reevaluation, career shifts, and first responder or veteran-related stress. Sessions aim to teach skills that can be used outside therapy.

Samantha emphasizes collaboration on treatment goals and invites open discussion about what techniques feel most useful. She focuses on strengths and concrete coping tools so people can better handle setbacks and build toward what matters to them. If someone is ready to start, she supports practical next steps toward change.

Approach and online therapy options

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting relationship so people feel heard and can use their own strengths to solve problems. This approach is often helpful for issues like low self-esteem, life transitions, and parenting stress.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thinking and develop new coping strategies for anxiety, depression, and mood instability.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, adds skills for managing intense emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness. It is useful when impulsivity, anger, or relationship conflicts are causing repeated problems.

Choosing the right approach is part of the early work in therapy. Samantha will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.

Discuss the practical arrangements before beginning therapy online. Confirm the current session options, fees, and appointment schedule, and raise any access needs or communication preferences. The aim is to understand the next steps and decide whether the proposed arrangements work for you.