About Erika
Erika Rana is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who brings eight years of clinical experience to her practice. She works with adults on relationship and personal concerns and offers care in both English and Spanish.
Background and approach
Erika aims to create a calm, direct space where people can talk about what matters most to them. She focuses on relationship and family issues, depression, anxiety, stress, addiction, grief, and challenges tied to life transitions.
Erika also helps with intimacy and body-image concerns, communication problems, parenting struggles, and caregiving stress. Her work includes attention to attachment and abandonment issues, dissociation, and co-occurring conditions.
Erika uses a mix of approaches that she tailors to each person. She draws on attachment-based ideas to help repair connection, client-centered ways to follow the person's lead, and cognitive-behavioral tools to shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
She also integrates dialectical skills and emotionally focused strategies when those fits the situation. Her background includes practice with people who have experience in foster care, the criminal justice system, substance use treatment, and survivors of domestic violence and abuse.
She has supported people from LGBTQ communities and those exploring nontraditional sexual subcultures, and she has worked with spiritual issues that followed intense psychedelic experiences. Erika is a certified yoga teacher and Reiki master and may bring mindful and somatic elements into sessions when appropriate.
She is based in California and frames therapy as a collaborative process aimed at practical tools and steady progress.
How Erika’s Approaches Work Online
Attachment-based work focuses on how patterns of connection and trust shape current relationships; online sessions use conversations and exercises to identify those patterns and build new ways to relate. Client-centered therapy centers the person’s own goals and experience, giving space to be heard while the therapist follows the client’s lead to set the agenda and pace. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) targets unhelpful thoughts and habits with homework and clear behavioral experiments to test small changes between sessions.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Erika collaborates with each person to figure out which methods fit their goals, personality, and life situation. Together they try things, review what helps, and adjust strategies based on progress and comfort.
Online therapy offers flexibility across several formats: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed, live chat for shorter real-time exchanges, and text-based messaging for ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule care around work, family, or travel while keeping therapy consistent and focused on practical steps.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- 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