About Eileen
Eileen Schrader is a licensed clinical social worker with thirty years of experience. She uses a warm, person-focused approach to help people manage anxiety, trauma, grief, and daily stress. Her style is straightforward and compassionate for people looking for practical support.
She blends client-centered care with emotion-focused and somatic ideas. That means sessions often include talking through feelings, noticing what the body is doing, and trying short exercises to ease intense reactions.
Background and approach
She also uses narrative and solution-focused techniques to help people reframe difficult stories and find manageable next steps. Eileen has worked with a wide range of concerns over her career. Common themes include panic attacks, attachment wounds, addiction, compassion fatigue, and the lasting effects of abuse or disaster.
She also helps with relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strain, career transitions, and multicultural stressors. Faith is part of her personal perspective, and she welcomes clients of all beliefs. Practical tools offered can include breath work, body-based exercises, cognitive strategies, and creative practices that fit each person’s needs.
Sessions aim to build self-understanding and coping skills rather than quick fixes. Based in Pennsylvania, she holds the LCSW credential and brings long experience working with veterans and first responders as well as individuals facing adoption, abandonment, or family-of-origin struggles. Eileen supports international clients and conducts therapy in English.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's experience and priorities. Sessions start by listening closely to what matters most and following the client's pace to build trust and clarity. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people identify and name strong feelings and the patterns they create in relationships, which can reduce panic and improve connection when practiced in sessions.These methods are chosen together with the client. The therapist will discuss goals, try different techniques, and adjust the plan based on what helps. This collaborative process makes it easier to find the right mix of talk, body awareness, or short skills practice for each situation.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face interaction for emotional work and guided exercises. Phone calls can be useful when bandwidth is limited or for a focused weekly check-in. Live chat and messaging fit people who prefer brief updates, written reflection, or scheduling flexibility. Together these formats offer practical access and make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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