Eric Howell, LMFT

Eric Howell is a California LMFT (Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist) with 15 years of clinical experience. He works with adults facing depression, anxiety, mood disorders, relationship strain, and issues tied to sexual orientation and identity. He also helps people navigating grief, major life changes, addiction concerns, and stress related to family roles and expectations.

Eric draws on his own experience as a therapy client and decades of practice in nonprofit, government, and private settings. He speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps like improving communication, learning coping skills, and recognizing how early family patterns influence current choices. Sessions aim to make difficult topics easier to talk about and to reduce the sense of being stuck.

He often addresses family of origin issues, attachment concerns, abandonment, and communication problems. He also supports people who are managing relationships with family members who have chronic mental health conditions. Eric’s background includes work at a regional gay and lesbian center, and he brings awareness of sexual orientation into his clinical perspective.

Clinically he uses approaches such as Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Existential and Jungian ideas to match what helps each person most. That mix lets him combine exploring early patterns with concrete strategies for mood and behavior shifts.

Eric is based in California and conducts therapy in English. He asks people to complete a short matching questionnaire before scheduling a first session and notes that costs vary by location and use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.

How his approaches are used in online sessions