Sana Akhtar Ramay
Calm, practical support for families
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed in
- California
- Languages
- English, Punjabi, Urdu
- Format
- Online sessions
About Sana
Sana Akhtar Ramay is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who focuses on family and parenting concerns alongside relationship, stress, and mood challenges. She meets people where they are and aims to make therapy straightforward and useful for everyday life. Sana speaks English, Punjabi, and Urdu, which helps many families feel understood across cultural lines.
Sana began her career after earning a Bachelor of Science in Psychology with an emphasis in Biology from the University of California, Davis.
Background and approach
Early work supporting children with autism led to a leadership role and motivated her to pursue a master’s in counseling from National University. She then worked in behavioral and community services and in children’s services at an agency. Her work history includes individual counseling, family services, and coordinated care with psychiatrists.
She has experience supporting adults, couples, families, and children ages 2 to 21. Sana highlights a long-term case where coordinated care helped a young client reduce medication and finish counseling, a reminder of progress made over time.
Sana holds the Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist credential - LMFT - and has completed trainings in Parent Child Interaction Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, grief, trauma, and cognitive therapy. She is also a Certified Nurtured Heart Trainer. In sessions she uses a warm, interactive style.
She combines cognitive, narrative, humanistic, and psychodynamic ideas while centering the client in planning and tracking progress. Sana encourages parents to take the first step toward change and offers steady guidance and support along the way.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Sana draws on a few well-established techniques to help families and individuals tackle practical problems. Cognitive approaches focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing them into workable alternatives; these methods often help with anxiety, depression, and stress-related patterns. Parent Child Interaction Therapy teaches specific parenting skills and coaching to improve behavior and attachment between caregivers and young children, which can be useful for common parenting struggles.Choosing the right approach is part of the work she does together with each client. Sana reviews goals, preferences, and the family context and then recommends methods that fit. That collaborative process makes it easier to adjust strategies if something isn’t working.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter, while phone sessions can be a simpler option for brief check-ins. Live chat and text messaging can help with quick questions or ongoing support between sessions. These formats make it easier to schedule sessions around busy family routines and provide more ways to stay connected with a licensed professional.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Punjabi, Urdu
Next step
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