About Erika
Erika Rana is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with eight years of clinical experience. She works with adults on relationship, stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addiction, and parenting concerns. Erika speaks English and Spanish and aims to make therapy approachable for people from diverse backgrounds.
She uses a client-centered stance, meeting people where they are and building practical tools together. Erika draws on somatic ideas to help clients notice how the body holds stress.
Background and approach
She also integrates cognitive-behavioral techniques and dialectical strategies to address unhelpful thinking and emotional regulation. Erika has worked with people connected to the foster care system and those who have faced substance use and domestic violence.
She has experience supporting people from LGBT and various racial and cultural communities, and she has provided therapy with sensitivity to kink and alternative sex culture when relevant. Her practice has included supporting people after intense spiritual or psychedelic experiences, and she brings mindfulness, yoga, and Reiki-informed perspectives into sessions when clients want them.
Erika emphasizes collaboration and tailors methods to each person's needs rather than using a fixed formula. She describes therapy as a team effort: learning skills, tracking progress, and adjusting course as needed. Outside of work she is a parent and values creative self-expression, which informs a warm and practical approach in sessions.
How somatic and relational approaches work online
Somatic-informed therapy emphasizes noticing body sensations and gentle movement to help process stress and emotional patterns. It can be useful for people who feel tension in their body, have trouble calming after upset, or want ways to ground themselves during emotional moments.Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on relationship patterns and how early connections shape trust and intimacy. This helps when communication, commitment, or closeness feel difficult, and it guides work on building safer ways of relating. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's experience and goals, giving space for the client to lead while the therapist offers reflection and support.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each client to choose techniques that fit their needs, goals, and comfort. That may mean trying body-focused practices alongside CBT tools or shifting emphasis as progress happens.
Online therapy offers flexibility: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when video isn't possible, and live chat or text messaging for shorter check-ins and between-session support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to access support from home or another suitable space.
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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