About Eric
Eric Billig is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with more than 22 years of clinical experience. He combines practical talk therapy with attention to how thoughts and behaviors affect the body. He keeps language direct and offers clear tools people can use between sessions.
He often focuses on anxiety and stress as well as addiction, trauma, depression, and grief. He also helps with relationship and intimacy concerns, sleep and eating problems, career strain, and adjusting to major life changes.
Background and approach
He works with clients exploring identity and LGBT issues and supports those coping with compassion fatigue and ADHD. Eric uses approaches that center the client’s experience and life story to guide change. He draws on client-centered methods to make sessions collaborative and on narrative and existential ideas to help people find meaning and new perspectives.
Mindfulness practices are used to calm the body and manage intense feelings. Sessions aim to explain how habits and automatic patterns keep problems going. He offers skills to shift those patterns and to try different outcomes.
The focus is practical - small changes that build over time into clearer choices and less overwhelm. Eric practices in California as an LMFT. He offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so people can choose what fits their life.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire is used to pair someone with a schedule that works.
How these approaches work in online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person in front of the therapist. It involves listening carefully, reflecting what is said, and helping people make their own choices. This approach can help when someone feels stuck, unheard, or unsure what to change.Mindfulness therapy teaches simple practices to notice thoughts and body sensations without getting swept away. Those techniques can reduce reactivity and help with anxiety, stress, and sleep problems. Narrative therapy looks at the stories people tell about themselves and offers ways to rewrite those stories so they serve current goals and values.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try options, and adjust methods based on what helps most. This is a collaborative process where feedback guides what comes next.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into life. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or for a short check-in. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief updates, between-session support, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options aim to increase flexibility and make consistent work on goals more achievable.
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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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