About Erika
Erika Rana is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with eight years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people facing relationship strain, anxiety, depression, grief, and life changes. Erika works in both English and Spanish and aims to make therapy straightforward and practical.
She uses a client-centered style that puts the person's goals first. Erika blends attachment-based ideas and cognitive behavioral techniques to help people understand patterns and try new ways of coping.
Background and approach
She also draws on emotion-focused work when relationship or intimacy issues are central. Erika has experience with a wide range of concerns, including parenting stress, adoption and foster care issues, addiction, trauma and abuse, body image, and sexual diversity such as BDSM and kink.
She has worked with people connected to the foster care system and the criminal justice system, and has experience addressing spiritual crises after difficult experiences. Her practice also attends to everyday problems like career stress, communication breakdowns, low self-esteem, and anger. Erika offers coaching-style supports alongside therapy to help people move toward concrete goals.
She emphasizes practical tools that can be used between sessions. Born in Mexico City, Erika enjoys working with Latino and Spanish-speaking clients and values offering therapy in a client's primary language when possible. She lives with her family and brings a personal appreciation for cultural identity and self-expression into her work.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Erika commonly uses attachment-based work to help people understand how early relationships shape current patterns. This can be useful when trust, closeness, or abandonment concerns show up in relationships. She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and try small behavioral experiments that can reduce anxiety and depression symptoms.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Erika collaborates with each person to pick methods that match their goals and preferences. She checks in regularly and adjusts techniques so therapy stays practical and relevant to daily life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people read facial expressions and body language, while phone calls may be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging work well for brief check-ins, concrete coaching, or when someone prefers writing things out. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to continue work between appointments.
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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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