Erika Rana, LMFT
Therapist in California
Erika Rana is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with eight years of clinical experience.
- Licensed inCalifornia
- License137717
- NPI 1508365222
- Experience8+ years
- LanguagesEnglish, Spanish
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About Erika
Erika Rana is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with eight years of clinical experience. She speaks English and Spanish and offers a calm, practical approach for people facing relationship stress, anxiety, grief, trauma, and life changes. She focuses on helping people sort through relationship and intimacy issues, substance concerns, parenting challenges, and identity questions.
Erika also supports people dealing with body image, eating concerns, codependency, and work or career stress.
Background and approach
Her background includes work with clients connected to foster care, the criminal justice system, and survivors of domestic violence and abuse. Erika combines attachment-based thinking with client-centered care to tailor sessions to each person's needs. She uses clear tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and skill-building approaches drawn from dialectical behavior therapy.
Mindfulness, existential ideas, and attention to spiritual experiences are woven into her work when it fits the client's goals. Clients can expect direct, practical strategies alongside space to explore feelings and relationship patterns. She draws on lived cultural experience to support Latino and Spanish-speaking clients, and she has experience with kink-friendly care and adoption and foster care issues.
Outside of therapy she is a mother, a yoga teacher, and a Reiki master, and she sometimes integrates somatic and movement-informed practices for people who find that helpful. Erika aims to help people identify concrete next steps and build skills they can use between sessions.
Credentials
- LMFT (California)
- License 137717 · expires February 2027
- NPI
- 1508365222 · national provider identifier
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Focus areas and approaches
Everything Erika lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Erika names
- 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
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
Attachment-informed care and practical skills online
Erika often draws on attachment-based therapy to help people notice how early relationship patterns shape current emotional reactions and closeness. This approach helps people improve communication, set boundaries, and feel safer in relationships. She also uses client-centered therapy to keep the work focused on each person's goals and values, offering empathy and collaborative problem solving. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, including practical skills for anxiety and mood, is used to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors when that fits the situation.Choosing the best approach is a team effort. Erika will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and how they respond to different strategies. Together they decide whether to lean into attachment work, skills training, mindfulness, or a mix of methods and then adjust as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for deeper conversation and reading nonverbal cues, while phone calls can work for shorter check-ins or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging let clients share thoughts between sessions and fit care into busy days. These options help people keep momentum without extra travel and make it easier to maintain regular contact with a licensed professional.
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Frequently asked
What concerns does Erika commonly help with?
She helps with relationship and intimacy issues, parenting and family stress, depression, anxiety, addictions, trauma and grief, body image and eating concerns, work and career stress, and related areas such as codependency and attachment issues.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Erika blends attachment-based ideas with client-centered care and practical techniques from CBT and DBT. Sessions mix talk, skills practice, and options like mindfulness or somatic work when helpful.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has eight years of experience working in a variety of settings, including community and independent practice environments with diverse populations.
What credentials and region apply to her practice?
She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist - LMFT - licensed in California and practices working with clients in that state.
Which languages are supported in sessions?
Sessions are offered in English and Spanish to accommodate clients who prefer either language.
What formats are available for sessions?
Therapy can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on the client's needs and preferences.
How does cost and payment work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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