About Erika
Erika Rana is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with eight years of clinical experience. She speaks English and Spanish and offers care from a perspective that values personal stories and cultural background. Erika aims to create a space where people feel heard and can start making changes that matter to them.
Her approach is practical and person-focused. She combines client-centered listening with techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and emotion-focused work.
How Erika works
Erika often addresses attachment patterns and helps people notice how past relationships shape present choices. Erika works with a wide range of concerns including relationship struggles, depression, anxiety, grief, addictions, parenting strain, body image, and identity questions. She also supports people dealing with trauma, dissociation, abandonment, blended family challenges, and issues related to kink and alternative sex culture.
In sessions she uses straightforward tools - thought work to reduce distress, exercises to strengthen emotional bonds, and skills to manage intense feelings. She draws on mindfulness and existential ideas when clients are facing big life questions or spiritual experiences. Erika trained and licensed in California and brings experience from community settings and independent practice.
She is a certified yoga teacher and Reiki master and sometimes includes body-focused and spiritual practices when they fit a client’s goals. Her style is warm, direct, and collaborative. If her approach resonates, she invites people to explore next steps.
Erika lists 14 ways of working on the entry:
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
What Erika works with
The areas below are the ones Erika selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
How Erika’s Approaches Work Online
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in close relationships and how early bonds affect current connection. Online sessions use conversation and exercises to help people notice those patterns and build more supported ways of relating.Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and acceptance. The therapist follows the person's lead, reflects what is said, and helps clarify goals. This approach is helpful for people wanting a supportive space to sort through feelings and decisions.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and teaches concrete skills for changing unhelpful thinking and routines. It is useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and many day-to-day problems.
Finding the best approach is part of the work. Erika will discuss goals and preferences and together decide which methods to try first. She adapts techniques over time so the plan stays focused on what helps the individual make progress.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls are good for deeper conversation and visual connection. Phone sessions work when bandwidth or screen time is limited. Live chat and text let people check in between sessions or use shorter, more frequent exchanges. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue work even when life is changing.
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