Works with
- Anger
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
How Erika works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Licensed in
- California
- Years in practice
- 8
- Languages
- English, Spanish
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Erika
Erika Rana is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who focuses on helping people manage intense emotions and improve important relationships. She practices in California and brings eight years of clinical experience to sessions. Erika speaks English and Spanish and often supports people navigating anger, stress, and life changes.
Erika uses a practical, person-centered style. She starts by listening to what matters most to each person and then adapts tools to their needs.
Background and approach
Sessions can include skills from cognitive behavioral therapy to help change unhelpful thinking, and emotion-focused methods to strengthen bonds and understanding. Her background includes work with people affected by substance use, foster care involvement, and situations of abuse. She has experience supporting members of the LGBT community and people from Latino and other communities of color.
She also has worked with clients who identify with kink or alternative sex cultures. Erika draws on broader supports too - mindfulness, spirituality, and somatic practices she learned through training as a yoga teacher and Reiki master. She frames these options as additions to talk therapy when they fit a person’s goals.
Her approach is collaborative and aimed at giving practical tools for daily life. Outside of work she is a parent and values creative self-expression. Erika aims to know each person she sees, support them through change, and help them build the skills to move forward.
What Erika works with
Everything Erika lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Erika's practice.
- 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 lists
- 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
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How emotion-focused and skill-based therapy work online
Attachment-Based Therapy helps people notice patterns in close relationships and how those patterns affect reactions like anger or withdrawal. It’s useful when relationship history shapes current fights or distance. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thinking and behavior, which can reduce stress and impulsive reactions. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centers on identifying and expressing core emotions in relationships to rebuild connection and improve intimacy.Choosing an approach is a team process. The therapist will listen to your goals, try out different tools, and recommend what fits best. Together you’ll pick strategies and adjust them over time based on what helps most in real life.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and deeper emotional work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits a break at work. Chat and messaging let people send brief updates, practice skills between sessions, or connect when scheduling is tight. These options aim to make consistent therapy easier to fit into busy lives.
Questions people ask about Erika
What concerns does she address?
She helps people with anger, stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, addictions, parenting strains, body image, and related concerns listed in her specialties.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is collaborative and client-centered. She blends talk therapy with practical skills from CBT and emotion-focused work to address feelings and behaviors.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has eight years of clinical experience working in California with diverse populations and a range of presenting issues.
What credential does she hold and where is she based?
She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) licensed in California and practices from that state.
Which languages are available for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English and Spanish.
What session formats does she offer?
She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging as ways to connect.
How are costs handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and then schedule according to the therapist's availability.