About Eric
Eric Howell greets people with a calm, straightforward style. He is a licensed marriage and family therapist in California with 15 years of experience.
Background and approach
He aims to make the first steps into therapy feel manageable and clear. Eric draws on experience from nonprofit, government, and independent practice settings.
He listens for patterns that cause stress, low mood, anger, or relationship strain. Sessions focus on practical skills you can use between meetings, clearer communication, and better emotional understanding.
He blends attachment-based ideas with client-centered listening and cognitive-behavioral strategies. That means he pays attention to how early relationships affect current feelings, prioritizes the client's perspective, and introduces ways to test and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
He also uses existential and Jungian perspectives when exploring meaning and identity. Eric understands how family history of serious mental illness can shape daily life and close relationships.
He offers direct talk about boundaries, caregiving strain, and recurring family patterns. He is comfortable addressing sexual orientation and the stresses that come with identity and social pressures.
Practical matters such as anxiety, depression, mood swings, grief, addiction, anger, and work or money stress are common topics in his work. He helps people develop specific coping tools, clearer decision-making, and steadier emotional responses.
His approach is collaborative and focused on what helps you move forward.
Approaches and how online sessions work
Eric often uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current emotional responses, which can help with trust, intimacy-related issues, and recurring family patterns. Client-centered therapy is another part of his practice and focuses on clear listening, understanding your goals, and letting you guide the pace of change. Cognitive behavioral therapy, used alongside those approaches, targets unhelpful thoughts and behaviors with practical exercises to reduce anxiety, depressed mood, or impulsive reactions.Finding the right mix of approaches is a team effort. He will discuss your history, current struggles, and what you hope to change. Together you can try strategies, review what helps, and adjust the approach as needed so the work matches your goals and preferences.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and teaching new skills. Phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited or for a focused check-in. Live chat and messaging let you share short updates, work through a moment between sessions, or keep progress moving when schedules are tight. These options help therapy fit into daily life while keeping the work collaborative and practical.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- LGBT
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English