About Sana
Sana Akhtar Ramay is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship struggles. She works with adults facing issues like trauma, grief, parenting stress, addictions, and concerns about intimacy or identity. Sana speaks English, Punjabi, and Urdu and practices in California as an LMFT.
She began her career after earning a Bachelor of Science in Psychology with an emphasis in Biology from the University of California, Davis.
How Sana works
Early work with children diagnosed with autism moved her into leadership roles and prompted graduate study. She earned a master’s degree in Counseling from National University and then worked in behavioral and community services and in children’s programs. Her clinical background includes direct work with adults, couples, families, and young people up to age 21.
Sana has provided individual counseling and family services and consulted with prescribers on coordinated care. Her experience spans common mood and anxiety concerns as well as bipolar disorder, eating and sleeping difficulties, anger, career stress, and parenting challenges. Sana’s counseling style is warm and interactive.
She uses a mix of approaches including cognitive behavioral, narrative, humanistic, and psychodynamic ideas to build treatment plans together with the person in front of her. She invites clients to set goals, track progress, and shape sessions to their needs. She encourages people to take that first step toward change and offers steady guidance and practical support during the process.
Sana aims to help clients move toward a more satisfying and manageable life.
What Sana works with
The areas below are the ones Sana selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English, Punjabi, Urdu |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Sana often uses cognitive behavioral ideas to help people identify unhelpful thinking patterns and try new behaviors. This approach is useful for anxiety, depression, and many everyday stressors.She also draws on narrative techniques that help people tell their story in new ways and separate themselves from problems. This can be helpful for trauma, grief, identity concerns, and relationship struggles.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Sana will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences, and she adjusts plans as progress is tracked.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can fit a break at work or require less bandwidth, live chat offers shorter check-ins, and messaging is useful for brief updates or ongoing support. These formats make it easier to schedule sessions around daily life and to keep therapy consistent even when routines change.
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