Samantha Eisenberg, LCSW, MSW, MEd, LMT, (Director of Clinical Administration and Social Media)
Samantha Eisenberg, LCSW, MSW, MEd, LMT, (she/her/hers) does individual, couples, family and group therapy virtually in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Virginia. She works with older teens and adults providing individual, couples and family therapy. Samantha uses an integrative, strengths-based, collaborative approach in sessions to help clients identify the issues they find most important to explore, cultivate self-awareness, identify existing and potential positive coping skills and supports, while using several techniques to tackle multiple sides of an issue.
Samantha imparts psychodynamic and relational approaches to delve into the psyche and identify attachment wounds and other roots of patterns of thinking and behaving. Together we figure out how certain thoughts and behaviors are holding you back and how you want to grow. Samantha is a strong advocate of self compassion work to recognize how those patterns may have protected clients in the past. Using a trauma informed lens to help clients safely process challenging memories and pulling from Internal Family Systems (IFS) to reparent and heal the inner child and integrate parts of self, we work towards finding a sense of inner peace and wholeness. We then gently work towards identifying and implementing more effective ways to get needs met that align with the client's value system and goals.
Samantha also uses a cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help clients shift the unhelpful thoughts and behaviors that are limiting them from reaching their full potential of happiness and efficacy. She uses mindfulness methods to facilitate self-reflection and grounded presence. She pulls from somatic exercises to help clients access, sit with, and release emotions safely through the body.
Samantha has a large tool box of concrete coping strategies that she shares with clients to help improve relaxation, manage pain, increase tolerance to stress, regulate emotions, calm the nervous system and down-regulate out of fight or flight, or energize and move out of a "freeze" or "flop" state. These tools are strongly influence by therapy modalities like dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT).
Samantha also enjoys helping clients explore the existential, spiritual, and abstract aspects of life. Additionally, she is creative herself and enjoys having clients use art to explore and express themselves when appropriate.
Samantha also works with couples and families. Relying on evidence based practices from Gottman, Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), to IMAGO therapy, Samantha will help couples and families with adult children identify their conflict cycle, learn more effective communication strategies, build secure attachment styles, communicate needs and love languages, set appropriate and loving boundaries, improve trust, deepen emotional and physical intimacy, and gain insight into how family dynamics, previous romantic relationships, built up resentments, or traumatic experiences have shaped how couples and families show up for each other today. She takes a soft but directive, hands on approach to facilitate discussions that will lead to relational healing and provide tools to continue growth outside of the therapy space.
Samantha also has special training in sex therapy from her graduate program. She has helped individuals and couples create healthier intimacy and navigate sexual challenges like desire discrepancy, low libido, erectile dysfunction, inability to orgasm, sexual trauma, gender dysphoria, and the nuances of open relationships and ethical non-monogamy.
Samantha is also currently co-facilitating the Chronic Pain & Illness Support Group, meeting virtually on Tuesdays at 8pm.
While Samantha may have tools and strategies in mind for each client and can guide as needed, you are the expert in your own life. She is open to feedback and works collaboratively with clients to give them their desired experience.
Samantha is solely working virtually at this time. Virtual therapy can be a convenient option for those who do not have the time or physical ability to come in person. Serving a larger population than those just within the Philadelphia area, clients in all parts of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Virginia will have access to Samantha'a services. As long as she's aware of your whereabouts for safety reasons, therapy can not only be held in the comfort of your own home, but from the convenience of a parked car away from work or family, or the serenity of a quiet, private outdoor space. She feels that virtual therapy can be just as effective as in person therapy in facilitating growth and healing. Added bonus- pets are strongly encouraged to be nearby for extra furry support!
Samantha believes that everyone deserves to find joy and fulfillment in their lives and that sometimes the guidance, validation, and support of a professional can help clients actualize their greatest potential. She would be honored to facilitate this for her clients.
Prior to joining the Center for Growth, Samantha spent last three years treating adults and children in an agency setting in Philadelphia and has experience working with individuals, couples, and families. She has treated clients with grief, anxiety, depression, bipolar, schizophrenia, addiction, FND, chronic pain and illness, ADHD, ASD, OCD, PTSD, trauma, sexual dysfunction, self esteem issues, interpersonal challenges, and those looking to navigate exploration of identity and life transitions. Samantha has also greatly enjoyed getting to work with individuals and couples on issues of communication and emotional and physical intimacy. Culturally sensitive and socially aware, she welcomes clients of all ethnic and racial backgrounds, sexual orientations, gender expressions, and with alternative relationship structures.
Before studying to do talk therapy, Samantha practiced for four years as a licensed massage therapist where she learned about how the body stores pain, how to release it, and how the emotional and physical body are interconnected. She has used this to help clients with pain conditions implement stretches, self soothe with gentle movement and deep breathing, and gain a greater awareness of how stress and mental health issues impact the body. Samantha is also an avid music lover and previous music maker. She grew up playing the clarinet in jazz band and orchestra, sings and writes songs on the banjo, and currently is experimenting with the ukulele! Besides enjoying music in her spare time, Samantha enjoys being in nature, spending time with friends and family, crafting all the things, practicing yoga and strength training, and reading self help books (she is a therapist, after all).
Samantha Eisenberg, LSCW, MSW, MEd, LMT, is a licensed clinical social worker with a Masters of Social Work and a Masters of Education in Human Sexuality from Widener University, and a Bachelors of Psychology from Goucher College.
Compassionate Reflection for Managing Low Self Esteem & Procrastination
Lifting Your Depression: A Gratitude Exercise
NPI: 1598301822
Licensure:
- Pennsylvania: CW021621
- New Jersey: 44SC05993700
- Virginia: 0904014245
