About Eileen
Eileen Schrader is a licensed clinical social worker with 30 years of practice. She focuses on somatic work alongside person-centered conversation to help people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, and relationship strain. She keeps sessions straightforward and practical.
Clients learn breath and body awareness techniques as well as ways to reframe difficult thoughts. Eileen integrates faith when requested, while welcoming people of all beliefs. In the therapy room she blends hands-on somatic ideas with emotionally-focused listening.
Background and approach
That means attention to how feelings show up in the body as well as the story someone tells about their life. This mix can help with panic attacks, dissociation, and strong emotional reactions. Her experience includes supporting people coping with loss, addiction, workplace stress, parenting challenges, and the fallout from abuse or abandonment.
She also has experience with first responder and veteran issues and multicultural concerns. The work can include coaching-style goal setting alongside deeper trauma processing. Eileen practices in Pennsylvania as an LCSW.
She works with adults seeking practical tools and clearer understanding of their reactions. People who want both body-oriented techniques and talk therapy often find her approach helpful.
How somatic and emotionally-focused methods work online
Somatic Therapy helps people notice how emotions show up in the body and learn simple movements, breath work, and grounding steps to calm nervous system responses. It can be useful for panic, dissociation, trauma aftereffects, and strong stress reactions.Client-Centered Therapy focuses on creating a warm, accepting space where the person guides the conversation. The therapist listens deeply and reflects back, which helps people clarify values, process feelings, and set their own goals.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) pays attention to attachment and how people respond in relationships. It helps identify painful patterns and practice new ways of connecting or expressing needs.
Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Eileen will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they can try different techniques and adjust the balance of body-based and talk work as therapy progresses.
Online sessions offer flexibility and access to the same therapeutic work from home. Video calls let the therapist see body cues and guide breath or grounding exercises. Phone, live chat, and text messaging provide other ways to stay connected when schedules or mobility get in the way. This variety helps people keep continuity while fitting therapy into busy lives.
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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