About Eric
Eric Balme is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 32 years of experience practicing in California. He focuses on stress and anxiety and helps people facing relationship and intimacy-related concerns. He also supports those managing anger and attention-related challenges such as ADHD.
Eric builds sessions around open conversation and practical steps. He aims to create a nonjudgmental space where clients can speak freely about thoughts and feelings. Sessions tend to emphasize clear communication and tools that can be used between meetings.
Background and approach
People come to him for help with a wide range of issues. That includes coping with addiction, dealing with divorce and separation, and handling caregiver stress. He also works with concerns like codependency, commitment and control issues, and problems with communication.
Eric has long experience addressing responses to crisis and trauma, including coping after natural or human-caused disasters and supporting first responders. He also helps clients process guilt, shame, forgiveness, and impulsive behaviors. Practical problem solving is a common feature of his approach.
Sessions can include strategies for anger management and relapse prevention for substance issues. He encourages small changes that add up over time. Eric offers services in English and accepts international clients.
He provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
Evidence-based approaches in online therapy
Eric uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques focused on practical change. One common approach helps people manage anxiety and stress by teaching short, actionable skills for reducing worry and improving daily routines. These techniques often include breathing and grounding practices, plus steps to change unhelpful behavior patterns.Another approach targets relationship and communication difficulties by teaching clear ways to express needs and set boundaries. Sessions practice real conversations and small behavioral experiments to build trust and intimacy over time.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each client to choose or adapt methods based on goals, preferences, and how a person responds in early sessions. This helps tailor a plan that fits the client’s life and pace.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for in-depth conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging offer flexible ways to get feedback between sessions and to check in without scheduling a full call. These options make therapy easier to fit around work, caregiving, and travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 32 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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