Rika Lopez, LMFT - Therapist in California

About Rika

Rika Lopez is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 15 years of clinical experience. She works with adults, couples, and families on relationship and parenting issues. She practices in California and offers therapy in English and Japanese.

Rika focuses on a wide range of concerns, including addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, anxiety, stress, anger, and intimacy-related issues. She also helps people facing family conflicts, parenting challenges, low self-esteem, coping with life changes, and compassion fatigue.

Background and approach

Her practice includes attention to multicultural concerns and sex addiction when those topics arise. In sessions she uses a mix of practical methods. She draws from Attachment-Based approaches to look at relationship patterns.

She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to address thoughts and behaviors. She also uses Client-Centered and Mindfulness strategies to help people feel heard and build daily coping tools. Her style is direct but compassionate.

She helps clients identify patterns, try small changes, and practice new ways of relating. She describes therapy as a process with gradual progress rather than instant fixes. Rika offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.

She works with subscription sessions that can be canceled at any time and provides scheduling based on therapist availability.

Therapeutic approaches and online care

Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early patterns of relating shape current relationships. It focuses on emotional bonds and helps people change the ways they seek closeness and safety in partners and family members. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety, depression, and impulsive patterns. Client-Centered Therapy puts the person’s experience first and creates space for them to be heard while they try new ways of coping and relating.

Choosing the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will talk with each person or couple about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide whether to emphasize attachment work, CBT techniques, or a client-centered stance as progress unfolds.

Online therapy is offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. These options make it easier to fit sessions around family schedules, reduce travel time, and maintain continuity when life gets busy. Rika uses these formats to deliver the same therapeutic methods she uses in person, adapted to what works best for each client.

Attachment-Based Therapy

Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.

Client-Centered Therapy

The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of concerns does Rika address?

She works with relationship and family issues, addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, anxiety, stress, anger, intimacy-related problems, parenting challenges, self-esteem, coping with life changes, and compassion fatigue.

What is her therapeutic style like?

Her approach is collaborative and straightforward. She helps people spot patterns, try practical steps, and practice new ways of relating over time.

How much clinical experience does she have?

She has 15 years of experience working with adults, couples, and families in clinical settings.

What are her credentials and where does she practice?

She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist - LMFT, licensed in California with license number CA LMFT 105880, and practices in California.

Which languages are supported in sessions?

Sessions are offered in English and Japanese.

What session formats are available?

She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.

How are fees handled?

Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

How do I begin working with her?

Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and then scheduling according to therapist availability.

Specialties and expertise

Top specialties

Addictions
Relationship issues
Trauma and abuse

Also works with

Therapeutic approaches

Experience: 15 years
Licensed: California
Languages: English, Japanese

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