Eric earned his undergraduate degree from UC Berkeley and his master’s degree in Counseling from Cal State East Bay. He brings extensive experience working with children and teens from diverse backgrounds. His work includes supporting clients facing trauma, depression, and anxiety. Known for his calm and patient demeanor, Eric connects easily with clients of all ages. His creativity, wide range of interests, and approachable style help clients feel comfortable. They also appreciate his sense of humor and unflappable personality.
After graduate school, Eric spent 14 years as a crisis and special services counselor at a local high school. During this time, he trained at Kaiser Permanente’s child and adolescent clinic. There, he worked with families, children on the autism spectrum, and adolescents with behavioral challenges. He later joined the Pleasanton Unified School District as a mental health therapist. In this role, he supported children and adolescents with learning disabilities and social-emotional concerns. He also worked closely with school personnel and families to address challenges together.
Although much of Eric’s career has focused on children and families, he now primarily supports young adults, couples, and individual adults at Loyal Blue. He understands the stress and constant adjustments that come with modern life. Eric provides steady, practical guidance to clients across many life stages. His experience with children and teens also gives him valuable insight into adult relationships. He helps clients build healthier relationships and strong foundations for themselves and their loved ones.
Eric brings warmth, humor, and an easygoing nature to therapy. He believes clients are the experts on their own lives. At the same time, he offers practical strategies that support their goals and values. His approach combines a developmental perspective with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and mindfulness techniques. These approaches help clients strengthen coping skills and manage life’s challenges more effectively.
In addition to his clinical work, Eric serves as a licensed supervisor for Loyal Blue’s Associate Marriage and Family Therapist training program. Outside of therapy, he enjoys spending time outdoors with his family, especially on beach adventures. He also loves playing guitar, working out, watching movies, and attending live music events.
Eric is accepting accepting new clients, and available for in-person sessions as well as telehealth within the state of California.
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, #78428
To get started, schedule your free 15-min consult with our practice coordinator.
Eric Specializes In:
- Adults
- School-based issues (K-12)
- Families, including co-parenting strategies
- Couples, including EFT (emotionally focused therapy) and strength-based approaches
Trainings & Seminars:
- End Panic and Anxiety for You & Your Patients: CBT & Exposure Techniques That Work
- The Complete Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy, Competency – A Start to Finish Instructional Series for Professionals: A class on how to use IFS therapy with diverse client problems, including trauma, anxiety and depression.
- Terry Real’s 2 Day Couple’s Therapy Training: An immersive introduction to Relational Life Therapy, demonstrating how to rapidly identify core relationship issues, build trust, and guide couples through transformative change using real-time sessions with an actual couple.
- CBT 101: Understanding and Implementing a Unified Protocol of CBT. Taught by Won Fong Lau Johnson, PhD NCSP, an evidence-based treatment that can help clients manage strong emotions regardless of presenting topic.
- Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) for Difficult Couples Evidence-Based Techniques to Effectively Work With Challenging Couples: EFT is best known as a cutting edge, tested and proven couples intervention, but it is also used to address individual depression, anxiety and post traumatic stress.
- Advanced CBT: Evidence-Based Interventions for Chronic Anxiety, OCD, Depression, Trauma and PTSD : Evidence-based interventions for presenting issues, focusing on helping clients recover more quickly and promoting lasting change.
- Clinical Trauma Professional Training : Trauma’s best-known resource (Bessel Van Der Kolk, MD) presents a 2-day seminar providing a map and understanding of recovery from trauma.
