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 and to work towards healing their inner child and integrating their parts of self. 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 cognitive behavioral therapy 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.
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. 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.
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 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.
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 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
