Eric Loya (he/him)

EMDR

For the past 10 years, I have been providing Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) for trauma recovery depression, and anxiety. EMDR facilitates the reprocessing of traumatic experiences, decreasing the emotional intensity of an emotionally evocative memory, and increases adaptive understanding of the self. EMDR is grounded in principles of safety, neural integration, and discovering new or forget parts of oneself.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

ACT provides an array of practices and perspectives that I use in my work to help clients increase their psychological flexibility, and to learn to better interact with their cognitive, emotional and somatic experiences. ACT incorporates mindfulness practices, the emphasis on the acceptance of the mind’s experience, and evaluating one’s inherent values that can allow for living a more value-based life, with new adaptive ways of interacting with unavoidable stressors.

Emotionally Focused

I use a modified form of EFT, tailed to my individual work with people; Emotion-Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT). Using EFIT, I lead with the notion that each person's sense of self is constantly evolving, and is therefore geared toward growth. The verbal and somatic processing of emotional and attachment patterns is a road map for the client to become an active agent of change in patterns that no longer serve their mental well-being.

Anxiety

I have provided treatment to reduce and management anxiety for over 8 years. Evidenced-based practices I use include EMDR, Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFIT), Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). I also treat Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, incorporating treatments such as Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT).

PTSD

As a trauma-informed psychotherapist, I offer a compassionate, client-centered approach that recognizes the profound impact trauma can have on emotional, cognitive, and relational well-being. My work is grounded in creating a safe, collaborative therapeutic environment where clients feel empowered to explore their experiences at their own pace. I integrate evidence-based modalities to help individuals process their story, build resilience, and reconnect with a sense of stability and self-worth.

Loss or Grief

I support the process of active grieving of the various forms of grief we experience in this life. Grief such as the death of a loved one, the direct and indirect impact of societal and political events, the sense disconnection from ones own ancestry, and the grieving of this planet's suffering. Grieving is the act of honoring the loss of that which we love and value deeply. Healthy grieving is not moving past the weight of it one's loss, but to move and learn from it.