About Eric
Eric Billig, LMFT, draws on 22 years of clinical experience to help people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, ADHD, and related challenges. He emphasizes understanding how mind and body interact and gives clear, practical tools people can use right away. His style is straightforward and focused on real-life change.
He explains how unconscious patterns shape daily thoughts and behavior. Then he shows simple ways to shift those patterns through repeated practices and new habits.
Background and approach
That practical focus aims to reduce symptoms and make everyday routines easier to manage. Sessions often start with a clear, down-to-earth conversation about what is most pressing. Eric listens, maps recurring patterns, and suggests concrete steps to try between meetings.
He mixes talking, reflective exercises, and mindful practices so people can test what works for them. His background includes long experience with addiction, trauma, grief, and mood concerns, along with issues like relationship struggles, parenting stress, and workplace strain. He also supports people dealing with eating or sleeping difficulties and compassion fatigue.
Eric uses several therapeutic approaches to match different needs, including client-centered work, existential ideas, mindfulness methods, motivational interviewing, and narrative techniques. He works with adults in California and conducts therapy in English. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a session.
He offers a mix of session formats to fit varied schedules and preferences.
Therapeutic approaches applied to online care
Eric uses client-centered work to create a respectful, nonjudgmental conversation where the person's goals guide each session. This approach helps people who need a listening space and practical direction for issues like anxiety, depression, or relationship concerns.He also draws on mindfulness therapy to teach attention and breathing practices that reduce reactivity and improve focus. These short exercises can help with stress, sleep, and managing impulses related to addiction or ADHD. Narrative therapy is used to look at life stories and identify patterns people want to change; rewriting those stories can open new options for behavior and relationships.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk through what matters most to the client, try methods together, and adjust the plan based on what proves helpful. The goal is to match tools to the person's needs and preferences rather than forcing a single method.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and visual cues, while phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text sessions are convenient for brief check-ins, coaching-style work, or when someone needs support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to continue work from different locations.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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