Erika Rana, LMFT
California · 8 years in practice
Erika Rana is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who focuses on practical support for people facing relationship, stress, and life-change challenges.
License and registration
- LMFT, California
- 137717 · expires February 2027
- NPI
- 1508365222 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 8
- Languages
- English, Spanish
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Erika
Erika Rana is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who focuses on practical support for people facing relationship, stress, and life-change challenges. She speaks English and Spanish and aims to create an approachable space for clients to sort out feelings and find clearer next steps. She draws on an eclectic mix of methods to match each person's needs.
That can mean talking through attachment patterns, using cognitive-behavioral tools to shift unhelpful thoughts, or applying client-centered listening so people feel heard.
Background and approach
Sessions often focus on everyday problems like parenting strain, work stress, grief, or struggles with intimacy and self-esteem. Erika has eight years of clinical experience and is licensed in California as an LMFT - Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. Her background includes work with people involved in foster care, substance use treatment, and those who have experienced domestic violence.
She also has experience supporting LGBT clients and people from diverse cultural communities. Her practice sometimes integrates spiritual and body-centered elements. She is a certified yoga teacher and a Reiki master and has worked with spiritual experiences following intense psychedelic events.
These options are offered based on each client's preferences and goals. Erika says therapy is a collaborative process. She aims to help clients develop tools they can use between sessions, whether for coping with anxiety, managing addictive urges, or improving communication.
Parents and caregivers often find short-term strategies useful while addressing deeper attachment and family patterns. Outside of work she is a mother of two, enjoys art and body expression, and values bicultural connections stemming from her background in Mexico City.
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
- Jungian Therapy
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential 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
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Jungian Therapy here is used to help people explore personal meaning, recurring life themes, and imagery that shows up in dreams or creative expression; it can be useful when someone wants to understand deeper patterns behind relationship or identity struggles. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current bonds and communication, and it helps people change how they relate to partners, parents, or children. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening without judgment and helping clients find their own solutions through supportive, empathic conversation.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each client to weigh what feels most helpful - short-term skills from CBT or DBT, deeper exploration with Jungian ideas, or a client-centered path - based on goals and preferences. That decision can change over time as needs shift.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which makes it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video is good for fuller conversation and reading nonverbal cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a quicker check-in, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options provide flexibility so therapists and clients can choose formats that match schedules and comfort.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does she help with?
She works with relationship and family stress, career and parenting challenges, anxiety, depression, addictions, grief, intimacy issues, eating and body image concerns, and related struggles such as abandonment and attachment issues.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is collaborative and flexible. She uses client-centered listening and blends attachment-based ideas with CBT and DBT techniques to build practical coping skills.
What is her clinical background?
She has eight years of clinical experience working in settings that included foster care, substance use treatment, and support for people affected by domestic violence.
Where is she licensed and based?
She is licensed in California as an LMFT - Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and practices with that credential in mind.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English and Spanish to accommodate clients who prefer either language.
What formats are available for sessions?
She meets with clients through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin if I want to work together?
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