Rika Lopez

Rika Lopez is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist practicing in California with 15 years of clinical experience supporting adults, couples, and families. She holds certification as a sex addiction therapist (CSAT) and specializes in working with people who struggle with compulsive sexual behaviors such as pornography use, infidelity, dating-app related patterns, and other sexually impulsive actions. She also supports partners who have been betrayed or harmed in their romantic relationships and marriages.

As a Christian therapist, she works compassionately with faith-based clients who carry guilt or shame related to sexual addiction, and she has observed that many religious communities do not always provide safe spaces for these concerns to be heard or addressed. She hopes spiritual communities will begin to engage in difficult conversations so fewer people suffer in isolation, and she emphasizes that there are practical resources available to address sexual addiction.

Her broader clinical work includes treating depression, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, stress, family and parenting conflicts, anger, self-esteem struggles, intimacy concerns, and compassion fatigue. She integrates evidence-informed approaches such as CBT, IFS, attachment-based interventions, and systems theory to explore underlying patterns and support healthier day-to-day functioning.

She presents therapy as a process rather than a quick fix - acknowledging that meaningful change takes time. She encourages commitment and focus, and invites individuals, couples, and families to begin a collaborative journey toward unfolding pain and building the coping skills they need. Clients are reminded that they are seen, noticed, and heard, and she offers to walk alongside them as they work toward healing.