About Erika
Erika Rana is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with eight years of clinical experience. She speaks English and Spanish and aims to create a calm space where people can talk about stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief, or life changes. Erika focuses on practical steps clients can use between sessions to feel steadier.
Erika blends client-centered work with attachment-based ideas to map how relationships shape feelings. She also uses cognitive behavioral strategies to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and change patterns that keep them stuck.
Background and approach
When emotions get intense, she draws on dialectical behavior techniques to teach grounding and regulation skills. Her background includes work with people affected by foster care, the criminal justice system, substance use, domestic violence, and various forms of abuse. She has supported clients from LGBT and multiple cultural communities and has experience with kink-affirming care.
Erika also offers support around parenting, blended family issues, adoption and attachment concerns. Erika brings a humanistic, existential perspective and sometimes incorporates mindfulness and spiritual practices when helpful. She is a certified yoga teacher and Reiki master and may integrate those elements when appropriate for a client's goals.
Her California license is LMFT. Clients can expect a collaborative approach that focuses on clear goals and tools for everyday life. Erika aims to know each person’s story, reduce overwhelm, and build skills for handling stress, anxiety, or relationship struggles.
How Erika’s approaches translate to online work
Erika often uses attachment-based ideas and cognitive behavioral techniques in online sessions. Attachment-based work looks at how patterns in close relationships shape reactions and helps people try new ways of connecting. Cognitive behavioral work focuses on spotting thoughts and behaviors that fuel anxiety or low mood and testing small changes to see what helps.Finding the right approach is treated as a team effort. She will talk with clients about what feels most useful and adjust methods as goals change. Clients set priorities together with the therapist and try practical tools between meetings to track progress.
Online therapy with Erika is available by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions let people share facial cues and have longer conversations. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for those who prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, homework support, or quick coping reminders during the week. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep momentum between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- 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
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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