Rika Lopez , LMFT

Rika Lopez is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with nearly 15 years of clinical experience supporting adults, couples, and families through complex challenges. She also holds certification as a sex addiction therapist - Certified Sex Addiction Therapist (CSAT) - and brings focused expertise to compulsive sexual behaviors such as pornography addiction, infidelity, use of hookup apps, and other sexually impulsive patterns. Her practice serves both people who act out sexually and partners who have experienced betrayal or injury in their relationships.

As a Christian therapist, she has particular experience working with faith-based clients who struggle with guilt and shame tied to sexual addiction. Rika highlights the ways spiritual communities sometimes lack safe spaces for honest conversation, and she encourages congregations to address these issues so individuals do not suffer in isolation. She offers tangible, practical resources to help people who are ready to change.

Beyond sexual addiction, Rika works with depression, anxiety, trauma, grief, relationship concerns, parenting challenges, and stress-related issues. She integrates approaches such as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), internal family systems (IFS), attachment-based work, and systems theory to explore the roots of unhealthy patterns and to develop usable tools for daily life. Rika emphasizes that therapy is a process - steady engagement and commitment can produce incremental shifts that lead to improved functioning and connection.

She invites prospective clients to begin a therapeutic journey where they are seen, noticed, and heard, with the therapist walking alongside them as they unpack pain and move toward healing.