Rika Lopez, LMFT

Rika Lopez is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 15 years of clinical experience supporting adults, couples, and families through complex emotional challenges. She also holds CSAT certification - Certified Sex Addiction Therapist - and brings specific expertise in helping people affected by compulsive sexual behaviors such as pornography use, infidelity, dating-app related patterns, and other sexually impulsive actions. She works both with individuals who engage in sexually acting-out behaviors and with partners who have been hurt by betrayal in their relationships.

As a Christian therapist, she is attentive to the spiritual dimensions of clients who wrestle with guilt or shame related to sexual addiction, and she often supports faith-based individuals navigating the difficulty of finding compassionate responses within their communities. She has spoken about the need for spiritual communities to address these issues more openly so people do not suffer in silence. Alongside faith-sensitive care, she offers practical resources and treatment strategies aimed at recovery and rebuilding trust.

Her clinical work also encompasses depression, anxiety, trauma and grief, stress, relationship and family issues, parenting, anger, self-esteem, and compassion fatigue. She integrates approaches such as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), internal family systems (IFS), attachment-based perspectives, and systems theory to explore the roots of unhealthy patterns and develop concrete tools for day-to-day functioning. Rika approaches therapy as a gradual process - emphasizing steady, focused effort and collaborative work with clients to support meaningful, incremental change.