Eric Loya (he/him)

EMDR

For the past 9 years, I have been providing Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) treatment for clients dealing with impacts from past trauma, depression, and anxiety. EMDR uses tactile, bilateral movements, along with targeted focus on the internal, psychological healing block in order to increase the brain's neural pathways to move toward healing.

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 symptoms Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, and use treatments such as Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT).

PTSD

Anyone's experience of trauma is unique, is always valid, and deserves tenderness and care when attending to the impact it causes. I approach the treatment and processing of trauma with the tender and care needed, using modalities such as EFIT and Eye-movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). I have incorporated EMDR over the past 9 years.

Loss or Grief

I am a Certified Grief Informed therapist. 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. Grief is a time to honor the loss of that which we love and value deeply. Healthy grieving is not moving past the weight of it, but to move and learn from it.