Holistic Jungian therapist specializing in trauma and relationships
I have worked with adults, teens, couples and families for seven years; I specialize in facilitating people’s own insights and resilience to access more resourced and contented lives. Living in California can be exhausting with its high paced culture; allow me to work with you on achieving insight(s) about the origins and solutions to anxiety, substance abuse, and dissatisfaction with relationships and work. With my background as a yoga instructor, meditation practitioner, and competitive runner and triathlete, I can join you in bringing awareness to maladaptive coping strategies. I strive to normalize and validate your experiences! I started my career in addiction counseling, via Hazelden Betty Ford’s graduate program, and I then received a counseling psychology masters from Palo Alto University; I have been working for a large hospital as a psychotherapist for the past six years.
My specialty is working with addiction of all kinds. With two decades of sobriety from alcohol and drugs, I can assist you and your loved ones in getting relief from anger, restlessness, and grief. I can support you in recovering from bereavement after losing a beloved person or animal. Recovery has varied approaches; let’s find yours and develop new skills.
I commend you for channeling your strength and wisdom into positive action. Asking for assistance and implementing new life skills is not easy; “we cannot fix a problem with the same mind that created it,” Einstein is known to have said. Most everyone deals with shame, guilt, and self-criticism, and now’s your time to achieve a respite from the human condition.
Congratulations on taking your first step in realizing your potential! I look forward to working with you.
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Erik Metzger is a California-based therapist with 14 years of clinical experience who helps adults, teens, couples and families access greater insight and resilience. He emphasizes practical skills and personal strengths to support people moving toward more resourced and contented lives.
He has a particular focus on addiction and related challenges, drawing on two decades of personal sobriety from alcohol and drugs to inform his work with clients and their loved ones. Early in his career he trained in addiction counseling through Hazelden Betty Ford’s graduate program, and he later completed a master’s degree in counseling psychology at Palo Alto University.
Erik has worked for a large hospital as a psychotherapist for the past six years, and he spent seven years working directly with adults, adolescents, couples and families. That combination of settings informs a collaborative, skills-based approach to recovery, grief, anxiety, relationship struggles and other difficulties.
His therapeutic toolbox includes perspectives shaped by training as a yoga instructor, a meditation practice, and experience as a competitive runner and triathlete – all of which he can use alongside traditional talk therapy to increase awareness of coping patterns. He also offers coaching around career and life transitions, and supports work on self-esteem, parenting, anger management and other concerns.
Erik is licensed in California as a marriage and family therapist; his professional credential is CA LMFT 106987. He aims to normalize and validate clients’ experiences while helping them develop new skills and pathways to relief.
He encourages people to use the strength they already have to take practical steps forward. Asking for help and learning new ways of relating and coping can be difficult, and Erik welcomes the opportunity to work with clients as they begin that process.
Many people ask whether meeting with a therapist online can actually help. For common concerns such as stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles or navigating life changes, remote therapy has been shown to be comparable in effectiveness to traditional in-person care.
One major benefit is flexibility – clients can choose the format that fits their schedule and comfort level, whether that is video sessions, phone calls, live chat or in-app messaging. This flexibility makes it easier to maintain continuity of care and to access support when life is busy or travel is difficult.
All therapists offering online services are licensed professionals, and if someone wants a different fit they can switch clinicians at any time. For many people, remote therapy provides a practical, effective way to address everyday mental health needs while fitting treatment into a modern lifestyle.
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