About Eric
Eric Billig is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) based in California with 22 years of clinical experience. He describes his work as connecting mental approaches with how the body and mind interact, and he focuses on practical tools people can use day to day.
Background and approach
He helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, depression, and trauma. He also supports people facing relationship and intimacy struggles, challenges with self-esteem, and life transitions like career changes or loss.
His practice includes concerns such as eating and sleeping problems, anger, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Eric uses several therapy styles to fit different needs.
He draws on client-centered methods to follow what a person brings, existential ideas to look at meaning and choice, mindfulness to help with moment-to-moment awareness, motivational interviewing to build readiness for change, and narrative techniques to rework personal stories. In sessions he offers clear explanations about how habits and unconscious drives shape behavior.
He teaches steps people can try between sessions to change outcomes. He frames work as skill-building rather than labels, aiming to give people tools they can use in daily life.
Eric has worked in the field for more than two decades and practices in California. Sessions are conducted in English and are offered through video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging.
The practice uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
Approach and Access: Therapy Methods Online
Client-centered therapy starts by following what each person brings to the session, focusing on listening and building understanding so goals come from the client. It helps when someone needs a nonjudgmental space to sort feelings and priorities.Mindfulness therapy teaches attention to present-moment experience through simple practices. It can reduce reactivity to stress, help with anxiety and sleep, and support managing cravings or strong emotions.
Motivational interviewing is a collaborative way to build motivation for change by exploring a person’s own reasons and confidence to act. It is often useful for addiction, behavior change, and stages of readiness for new habits.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk through options and adapt methods based on a person's goals, preferences, and what proves helpful in early sessions. This collaborative process aims to find practical tools that fit each person's life.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for full conversations and visual cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat provides quick check-ins, and messaging supports shorter or ongoing contact between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to try different formats to see what works best.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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