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Eric Billig

Eric Billig, LMFT

LMFT - Anxiety and addiction focus

California

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Credentials
LMFT
License
LMFT, California / 112750
NPI
1023357977
Experience
22 years
Languages
English
Location
California
  • Client-centered methods
  • Mindfulness practices
  • Narrative exploration

About Eric

Eric Billig is an LMFT - a licensed marriage and family therapist in California - with 22 years of clinical experience. He lists stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, and a wide range of life concerns among his focus areas. Eric explains therapeutic work by linking mental patterns to body-based systems and everyday behaviors.

He describes an approach that connects thoughts, habits, and unconscious drives to current problems. In sessions he shares clear explanations about how psychological patterns form. He also teaches practical tools aimed at changing those patterns and shaping different outcomes.

Eric has worked with addiction, anxiety, trauma, and mood concerns across a long clinical career. He uses methods drawn from client-centered, existential, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and narrative approaches to guide conversations and exercises.

Clients can expect straightforward explanations about why certain reactions happen. The work often involves noticing daily routines, testing small changes, and reflecting on personal stories that keep problems going. This makes sessions feel focused on what can be changed next.

He also lists many related issues he addresses, including relationship and intimacy struggles, parenting and family challenges, ADHD, grief, end-of-life and hospice concerns, and coping with life transitions. Eric emphasizes giving people tools they can practice between sessions to shift how they respond to stress.

To begin, prospective clients follow the site’s matching process and schedule a first session. Eric aims to combine clear information with practical methods so people can try different ways of managing difficult feelings and situations.

How Eric’s approaches translate to online work

Eric draws on client-centered, existential, and mindfulness-informed methods. Client-centered work focuses on the person’s experience in the moment and helps them shape what they want to get from sessions. Existential approaches look at meaning, choice, and values to help people facing life transitions and difficult decisions. Mindfulness therapy involves simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and build steadier responses to stress and anxiety.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Eric will collaborate with a client to test what feels useful and adjust methods based on goals and preferences. That means trying conversations, short exercises, or reflective practices and checking in about what helps most.

The biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm current options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day, allow shorter check-ins when needed, or let someone attend without traveling. The focus is on practical techniques that can be practiced between sessions and adapted to everyday schedules.

Areas of expertise

Also works with

LGBTRelationship issuesFamily conflictsIntimacy-related issuesEating disordersSleeping disordersParenting issuesAnger managementSelf esteemCareer difficultiesBipolar disorderCoping with life changesCoachingCompassion fatigueADHD

Additional focus areas

AbandonmentAging and geriatric issuesAntisocial personalityAttachment issuesAvoidant personalityCo-morbidityCodependencyCommitment issuesCommunication problemsControl issuesDivorce and separationFamily problemsForgivenessGuilt and shameHospice and end-of-life counselingImpulsivityInfidelityIsolation / lonelinessJealousyLife purposeMen's issuesMidlife crisisVeteran and Armed Forces IssuesMood disordersNarcissismObsessions, compulsions, and OCDPanic disorder and panic attacksParanoiaPersonality disordersPhobiasPost-traumatic stressProcess addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)Self-harmSelf-loveSex addictionSocial anxiety and phobiaSomatizationWorkplace issues

Therapeutic approaches

Client-Centered TherapyExistential TherapyMindfulness TherapyMotivational InterviewingNarrative TherapyPsychodynamic Therapy

Experience

22+ years

Listed in

California

Languages

English

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does he work with?

He lists stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, and many related life and relationship issues.

What is his therapy style like?

He explains how mental patterns link to daily behaviors and teaches practical tools to change outcomes. The tone is explanatory and goal-oriented.

How much experience does he have?

He has 22 years of clinical experience working with addiction, anxiety, mood concerns, and related issues.

What credential and location are listed?

He is an LMFT - a licensed marriage and family therapist - and practices in California.

Which languages are supported?

Sessions are offered in English and international clients are not currently accepted.

What session formats are available?

The original biography does not specify session formats. Please confirm current session options before booking.

How are fees handled?

Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.

How do I get started?

Select the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.

Eric BilligLMFT

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