About Rika
Rika Lopez is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 15 years of clinical experience in California. She offers calm, straightforward care for people dealing with difficult relationship issues and compulsive sexual behaviors. She speaks English and Japanese and works with adults and partners affected by intimacy wounds.
Her practice focuses on practical help for addictions, trauma, grief, depression, anxiety, and stress. She also supports people facing struggles with intimacy, parenting challenges, anger, and low self-esteem.
How Rika works
Multicultural concerns and sex addiction are listed as additional focus areas she addresses. Rika combines methods that look at how relationships shape patterns, how thoughts influence behavior, and how present-moment awareness can steady emotion. In sessions she uses attachment-based ideas to understand relationship hurts, cognitive-behavioral techniques to shift thinking and behavior, and client-centered listening to help people feel heard.
Expect a steady, process-oriented approach that focuses on small, practical changes over time. She views therapy as collaborative work and helps clients set realistic steps they can try between sessions. Progress is often gradual but meant to build real, daily improvements.
Rika aims to reduce shame and isolation around sensitive issues, including when faith or cultural background complicates emotional pain. Her style is direct but compassionate, and she helps people find concrete tools to manage life transitions and past wounds.
Rika lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Rika works with
The areas below are the ones Rika selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Anger management
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Sex addiction
- Stress, Anxiety
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English, Japanese |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
How Rika’s Approaches Translate to Online Therapy
Rika uses attachment-based work to map how early and current relationships shape reactions. This approach helps people understand patterns in relationships and how to build safer, more stable connections. It can be useful for intimacy issues, trust wounds, and partnership conflict.She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on changing unhelpful thoughts and behavior. CBT offers concrete exercises and small experiments to reduce anxiety, depressive thinking, and compulsive behaviors. These tools translate well to exercises done between sessions and to short check-ins online.
Finding the right approach happens together. She will listen to your goals and try methods that fit your situation. If something doesn’t work, she adjusts the plan and suggests different techniques based on your needs and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexibility and practical ways to stay consistent. Video calls allow full conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work with lower bandwidth, and live chat or text-based messaging can fit quick check-ins or shorter updates during a busy day. These options make it easier to keep continuity in care and practice skills in everyday life.
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