Linda helped my daughter through a really rough time in her life and was the best therapist we ever had. I'm forever grateful for her.

There is something not quite right about Linda. To be honest, Linda Eisnitz puts the 'diss' in dysfunctional. Manipulative and unkind, disrespectful and inconsiderate, I found her the worst co-parenting counselor possible. Definitely more harm than good. Rather than promoting cooperation Ms. Eisnitz sought to promote conflict and then make vague generalizations in reports to Family Court Services. Without specifying what she was referring to Ms. Eisnitz told a child custody evaluator that I was "not showing the level of cooperation expected." I was following my attorney's instructions to the letter, and strongly feel Ms. Eisnitz comments were highly inappropriate, unprofessional and more prejudicial than probative. My ex-wife and I had toured several elementary schools, and found the one that we liked the best. I signed our daughter up for this school. Ms. Eisnitz, apparently finding nothing else to complain about made a stink about the fact I signed my daughter up for kindergarten! Ms. Eisnitz insisted I needed written permission from my soon-to-be ex-wife, although we had already agreed this was the best school. In ending our 10 year marriage we didn't need a conflict-seeking 'therapist' making a mountain out of a molehill. When I suggested that for peace of mind, I ask a Sheriff's deputy to supervise while I removed some of my personal belongings from the former family residence, Ms. Eisnitz snarled "are you threatening her?!" As peace officers, Sheriff's deputies are routinely called to assist a couple in transition and obtaining a peace officer's supervision had been recommended to me by a Sheriff's deputy as an inexpensive alternative to litigation. It makes you wonder, has Ms. Eisnitz had run-ins with the law to warrant the suggestion that the presence of a Sheriff's deputy was somehow "threatening"?! To summarize, Ms. Eisnitz caused more harm than good to my co-parenting relationship with the mother of my child. Beware! Ms. Eisnitz is incompetent and expensive. If you sign up with her in conjunction with a divorce proceeding, her connections to court child custody recommending counselor Dan Chester may result in the court ordering you to continue seeing Ms. Eisnitz "for the duration and frequency determined by Ms. Eisnitz." OMG! An open checkbook! read more

I have known and worked with Linda Eisnitz for more than 15 years. I first contacted Linda when I was involved in a difficult custody situation. I knew that I needed to make decisions that were focused on my daughter's best interests. When I was worried that I was making decisions in reaction to my own hurt and emotions, I turned to Linda. I was able to review the situations with her as they arose, and she helped guide me in making the best possible decisions for my daughter. Having a professional with Linda's years of experience and education helped me be a better parent. As a teenager, my daughter has met with Linda on her own. Linda's demeanor with her child and teen clients is warm and non-threatening. They can feel at ease with her and learn to trust her. While my daughter was initially resistant to meeting with a therapist, she quickly came to view Linda as a close friend that she can confide in and work through the issues that she is facing in her life. As a parent, I sometimes feel like I want to know every little thing that happens between Linda and my daughter, but I understand and appreciate Linda's integrity in maintaining client confidentiality. I trust her, and so does my daughter, which is most important. One of the many good qualities Linda has is her ability to be warm and encouraging with her child clients, supportive of the family, and direct in her communication with parents without being rude or offensive. I appreciate her appropriate sense of humor, and trust that Linda will be completely honest in her expert assessment of a situation. Parents who can listen and understand that we all need to grow and learn at every stage of our lives will benefit greatly from her expertise and guidance. I highly recommend Linda to families and individuals who need reunification and co-parenting counseling, a trusted and reliable therapist for their child, or as a private mediator when Family Court Services is stretched too thin to meet the family's immediate needs. Her fees are extremely reasonable, and her experience invaluable. read more

The family court system is the most trying and difficult thing with which I have ever dealt. It is a soul crushing behemoth which has no consideration for the truth, what is right, nor what is in the best interest of children. I have been enmeshed in this impossible twisted mess since 2007. There have been very few bright lights during that time. Linda has been one of those lights for me and my children. She brought compassion, understanding, firmness and years of wisdom to a horrible situation. But, most of all, she brought common sense. It has been my experience that so few people that work within and with the family law system actually listen and apply some sense to what they hear. Most seem to just follow some weird protocol which has nothing to do with a particular situation. Linda was referred to me by a lawyer. The only lawyer that refused to take my money. As he put it "you need to be in high-conflict counseling with a professional and not spending money on lawyers." I have always felt that was some of the best advice I have received since my divorce. I have not been able to get everything I had wanted for myself and my children in our situation but I can say that Linda has been about the only person I have dealt with that has helped us get much closer to a happy situation. My son often tells me he misses her and my wife and I think of Linda as the wise aunt that helps us deal with some of the more insanely difficult aspects of being a divorced dad. read more

Ms. Eisnitz has been a part of our family's therapy for more than 9 years. She came highly recommended and then actually court ordered. My then wife was not agreeable to anything or anyone and we jumped from therapist to therapist on what seemed like a monthly schedule until we found Ms. Eisnitz. She started as a co-parent counselor and, because of no fault of hers, transitioned into my child's therapist. We were not ready to co-parent and did not make it easy on Ms. Eisnitz. Both of us came in angry and upset and could barely sit in the same room with each other, but Ms. Eisnitz was able to help me see the bigger picture, my child. Ms. Eisnitz is the smart, tough but empathetic -big sister, aunt, mom grandma every family needs but don't want to admit. Her delivery is a mixture of common sense, psychology and life experience. She is a strong woman. She has always been pretty selfless and accepted us, now my child, with next to no notice. I can see why the courts and attorneys assign Ms. Eisnitz. She was able to connect with our child and reset our perspective time and again. I think she "saved" my child in many ways. Even now, almost a decade later, our child asks to meet with her and sometimes it's just a telephone call. She is that available and that devoted to the children she works with. She also properly found a better fit for my ex wife - and my personality, and did not abandon us. I am mortified at my and my ex-wife's behavior all those years, but she never - not even for a moment judged us. We owe her so much and from time to time focused our misery on her. We owe her an apology. She brought out -and focused on the best parts of us while respecting where the anger came from and set up a way for me to reflect on that while not feeding into those feelings. I never felt "picked on" or that she chose a side- even when I wanted one. I would expect a difficult review for her because strong medicine is hard to swallow. Perhaps it is less about her and her approach and more about the hostility, maybe desperation you bring into the room. Perhaps (in our case) we thought she should tell us everything our child disclosed...but that wasn't her job. I'm not disclosing our child's feelings (directly) she preserved a safe environment for him and earned his trust. She was clear that if there was a life threatening emotion or issue, she would properly disclose. Not everyone is a perfect fit, BUT Ms. Eisnitz was for our child. Go see her. Trust the process and her. It might take a while - but it worked for us and I have heard she has worked several others. I did my research and would not trust anyone with my child. Ms. Eisnitz brought my child peace, calm and offered him a mental health safe place. read more

DO NOT LET YOUR CHILD BE ALONE with Linda, she operates outside her scope of practice and will tell your child things that don't support you're parenting values. Linda turned my daughter against me and created more conflict with my x-wife. Linda does not help families she tears them apart. BEWARE you will end up having more problems than you started with. Linda is two-faced, ask yourself, please I urge you to walk away from this dishonest therapist. Linda should NOT be allowed to provide therapy to children. Hopefully she retires soon!!!!!!!! read more

We Love Linda! She helped my son then 10 at the time go through a very difficult custody situation. She was so kind and loving to my son, helped him work through all the issues he had been having with his father for many years. I picked her out while going through this situation and I could have not made a better choice. My son still talks about her so fondly and we even went and visited her a few months back. He is now 21 and she is still such a fond memory in his mind. I have over the years sent her pics of him in all his important milestones, graduations and big birthdays. She has been like part of our family as we say for so many years now. I have told her many times over how I could not even imagined going through all this without her and how important she has been in my sons life. As far as I am concerned she saved him from losing his mind during these custody issues. I will say I had no attorney through this whole situation, I chose her and she is AWESOME. I have recommended her to friends who are struggling through divorce and separations. This was one of the most trying and difficult times in our lives, especially my son. My son is level headed, realistic and overall so adjusted to this whole situation because of Linda. As far as I am concerned he turned to be the awesome Man that he is because she helped me save him from losing his mind! If you have the opportunity go meet her, she is the BEST! read more

When I was going through difficult times as a youngster I saw Linda off and on for a number of years. She is an excellent therapist - warm, compassionate while also providing perspective for those in the midst of difficult situations. I have nothing but the highest praise for the services she provides, and felt like my time spent with her was tremendously useful to me growing up. Honestly I was surprised to see negative reviews below, and while I do not know the reviewers personally, I would question what their motivation is, since it looks like they dealt with Linda as part of court-ordered services. I would say take the negative reviews with a big grain of salt, since it definitely appears they may be biased based on the situations through which they came to Linda's services. As the child of a fairly typical divorce situation, I feel like Linda was really able to help me through some of the more challenging times in my childhood, and is an outstanding therapist. I would highly recommend seeing her if you think you could use some help from a therapeutic perspective. read more