About Eric
Eric Billig, LMFT, uses a client-centered style that keeps the person in focus. He combines straightforward conversation with practical tools to help people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, and other concerns. Eric writes clearly about how thoughts and daily habits influence feeling and behavior, and he shares ways to change those patterns.
With 22 years of practice in California, Eric draws on several approaches to meet each person's needs. He offers mindfulness exercises to calm the body and attention, narrative work to make sense of life events, and existential ideas when clients want to find meaning during big changes.
Background and approach
Sessions often include short skills practice and reflection between meetings. Eric works with a wide range of concerns, including trauma and abuse, depression, relationship and intimacy-related issues, eating and sleeping problems, parenting stress, anger, and career worries. He also addresses ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, compassion fatigue, and end-of-life or hospice related topics when they arise.
The focus is on clear steps people can try right away. People can expect a collaborative tone in sessions. Eric explains how habitual thoughts and behaviors contribute to current struggles, then helps set small goals to shift those patterns.
He describes therapeutic work plainly and encourages clients to notice progress as they practice new skills. His practice includes coaching-style support alongside therapy when that fits a person’s aims. Eric emphasizes usable tools and steady reflection so clients can move toward the changes they want.
Approaches that translate to online work
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to what matters most to the person. Online sessions use that same approach by centering conversations on a client's current concerns and goals. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve sleep or anxiety; these brief exercises can be practiced during or between video or phone sessions. Narrative therapy helps people name and reframe the stories they tell about themselves, which is useful for grief, relationship questions, and coping with life changes.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked in the past, then suggest methods to try together. Adjustments are made over time so the work stays useful and grounded in the client's day-to-day life.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared exercises, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for briefer check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options let people fit therapy around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping the focus on practical change.
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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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