About Earl
Earl Liotti is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people facing anxiety, addiction, depression, grief, and major life changes. He offers steady, compassionate support and practical ways to cope. His style is warm and nonjudgmental, meeting clients where they are and starting from each person’s experience.
He brings nine years of clinical experience working with trauma, PTSD-related concerns, and substance use issues. Much of his work has focused on addiction and trauma, but he also supports people dealing with relationship strain, anger, low self-esteem, and questions about life purpose.
Background and approach
He pays attention to how emotional pain shows up in the body and uses somatic ideas alongside talk therapy. Earl draws on client-centered listening, attachment-based thinking, cognitive-behavioral tools, and existential questions to tailor sessions to each person.
That means sessions can include practical skills for managing thoughts and feelings, exploring patterns in close relationships, and noticing bodily responses tied to stress or trauma. He understands how seeking help can bring mixed feelings because he has faced his own challenges. That perspective shapes a gentle pace in sessions and a focus on collaboration.
Clients set the goals and the work is adapted to meet them where they are. Earl practices in California and works in English. He offers several online formats so people can choose what fits their schedule and needs.
If someone is ready to explore change, he invites them to begin the process in a supportive way.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Somatic-informed work focuses on how stress and trauma show up in the body. This approach helps people notice bodily reactions, learn gentle ways to calm physical responses, and connect those sensations to emotions and memories.Attachment-based therapy looks at patterns in close relationships. It helps people understand how early bonds shape expectations and reactions in current relationships, and supports building more supported ways of relating.
Client-centered therapy creates space for people to speak without judgement while the therapist reflects and supports. It emphasizes listening, empathy, and following the client’s pace so goals and meaning emerge from the person’s own experience.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose methods that fit their needs, goals, and comfort level. This may mean trying different techniques and adjusting as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into busy lives, keep continuity during transitions, and let people pick how they prefer to communicate. Sessions can focus on body awareness, relationship patterns, or skill building depending on the chosen approach and the client’s goals.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English