Rubi Lopez Becerra, MFT
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist
Rubi Lopez Becerra is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with over 10 years of experience working with children, adolescents, adults and families. She has a deep appreciation for each individual’s natural resilience and believes that positive change is always possible. She seeks to help individuals develop new strategies to handle life’s challenges and stressors. She has developed an expertise working with individuals presenting with relational issues, family changes, life transitions, catastrophic loss, school and work stressors. She is passionate in helping individuals and families overcome their challenges and find growth in those experiences. Her treatment approach is client-centered and solution focused in which she utilizes the resiliency and strengths of her clients to assist them in obtaining their goals.
She is skilled in several evidenced based treatment approaches — Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Families Over-Coming Under Stress (FOCUS), Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy (TF-CBT) and Parent-Child Interaction Treatment (PCIT) — to address individual and family needs.
Specialties:
Child, Adolescent & Adult Psychotherapy
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Solution Focused & Strength Based Approaches
Mindfulness Based Psychotherapy
Anxiety & Depression
Trauma & Stress Related Disorders
Grief & Loss
Catastrophic Events
Life Transitions
Parent Training and Support
Divorce & Co-Parenting
Multicultural Therapy & Bilingual (English/Spanish)
Christian Psychotherapy
Education:
Master of Arts, Clinical Psychology with an emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy
Pepperdine University, Irvine, CA
Bachelor of Science, Political Science with an emphasis in International Relations
Chapman University, Orange, CA
Professional Affiliations
California Association of Marriage & Family Therapists (CAMFT)
Certifications
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist
(Lic. MFC 51037). California Board of Behavioral Sciences.