About Eileen
Eileen Schrader is a licensed clinical social worker with thirty years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, trauma, and relationship concerns. Eileen blends a warm, client-centered style with practical tools you can use between sessions.
She draws on emotionally-focused and narrative approaches to address core relationship patterns and personal stories that keep people stuck. Eileen also uses somatic techniques to help people notice and work with physical responses to stress and trauma.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented, with attention to feelings, body sensations, and real-life problem solving. Eileen has spent her career supporting people through major life changes, workplace strain, and complicated family history. Her work includes helping with abandonment, attachment issues, adoption and foster care concerns, and difficulties tied to military or first responder experiences.
She also assists with addiction, eating struggles, panic, and compassion fatigue. Her practice welcomes people with a range of spiritual backgrounds. She can integrate clients' faith when requested but does not require it.
Eileen emphasizes practical breath work, body-centered exercises, and creative or cognitive strategies that fit daily life. Based in Pennsylvania, Eileen offers online options that fit varied schedules and needs. She helps people set clear goals, practice new skills, and track progress so therapy feels useful and relevant.
How Eileen’s approaches translate to online therapy
Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and following the client's lead. In online sessions this means starting where you are, naming what matters most, and pacing work to match your goals. It helps with everyday stress, relationship concerns, and coping with life transitions.Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) focuses on how emotions shape close bonds. Online EFT work looks at patterns in relationships and helps people practice new ways of expressing needs and responding to each other. This approach is useful for intimacy-related issues and attachment concerns.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose techniques that fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That may mean mixing client-centered listening, EFT for emotions, narrative work to reframe life stories, or somatic exercises to calm the body.
Online formats offer practical benefits. Video calls let people read facial expressions and use screen-shared worksheets. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief check-ins, short coaching moments, or ongoing reflections between longer sessions. Together these options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and maintain steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- 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