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Jonnet Cruz

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Jonnet Cruz, LMFT

Hawaii

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist - Family and parenting focus

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About

  • Attachment-based work
  • Cognitive behavioral tools
  • Emotion-focused techniques

About Jonnet

Jonnet Cruz is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) licensed in Hawaii and Florida with 20 years of clinical experience. She focuses on stress, anxiety, relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, addictions, parenting, grief, mood disorders, and other everyday strains that affect life at home. Jonnet works with adults who want clearer communication, better emotional regulation, or help managing big life changes.

She uses practical, talk-based work alongside evidence-informed techniques. Sessions often involve identifying unhelpful patterns, practicing new ways of responding, and building on strengths clients already have. Jonnet draws on approaches that look at relationships, attachment, emotions, and thinking styles to help people shift stuck patterns.

Her background includes long-term clinical work across diverse settings over two decades. That experience informs a flexible way of working that combines listening with specific skills training. She pays attention to how past relationships shape present reactions and uses that understanding to guide change.

Clients can expect straightforward conversations about goals and small experiments to try between sessions. Jonnet helps people break large problems into manageable steps and track progress over time. If you want practical tools for parenting stress, relationship tension, or mood concerns, she frames work in clear, action-oriented terms.

Sessions proceed at a steady pace, with regular review of what’s working. She encourages adults to bring immediate concerns from home or work into sessions and to test new behaviors between meetings. To begin, follow the practice's onboarding steps and schedule a first meeting.

How sessions work

How her therapeutic approaches translate to online work

Attachment-based therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. In practical terms this means noticing how closeness or distance shows up now and trying small changes to how someone expresses needs or reacts in relationships. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and offers concrete exercises to test new ways of thinking and behaving. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people name and work with core emotions to change how they relate to others and themselves.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will review your goals and current struggles and suggest which methods to try first. That choice is made together and can change as sessions progress. You and the therapist will check what helps and adjust methods over time.

The original biography did not list specific online session formats, so confirm the available options before booking. Many people find that scheduling sessions around daily routines makes therapy easier to keep up with. Online work can make it simpler to fit brief check-ins or regular weekly sessions into a busy week, or to use video when more interactive work is needed and shorter phone check-ins when less visual focus is helpful. Licensed professionals can tailor pacing and homework to fit your everyday life.

Areas of focus

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

Stress, AnxietyRelationship issuesFamily conflictsTrauma and abuseSelf esteem

Also works with

AddictionsLGBTGriefIntimacy-related issuesEating disordersParenting issuesAnger managementCareer difficultiesBipolar disorderDepressionCoping with life changesCoachingCompassion fatigueADHD

Additional focus areas

AbandonmentAttachment issuesBlended family issuesBody imageCo-morbidityCodependencyCommitment issuesCommunication problemsControl issuesDependent personalityDisruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)DissociationDivorce and separationDomestic violenceDrug and alcohol addictionEmptinessFamily of origin issuesFamily problemsForgivenessGuilt and shameImpulsivityInfidelityIsolation / lonelinessJealousyLife purposeVeteran and Armed Forces IssuesMood disordersMulticultural concernsObsessions, compulsions, and OCDPanic disorder and panic attacksPostpartum depressionPost-traumatic stressProcess addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)Self-harmSelf-loveSex addictionSexual assault and abuseSexualitySocial anxiety and phobiaSomatizationTrichotillomaniaWomen's issuesWorkplace issuesYoung adult issues

Therapeutic approaches

Attachment-Based TherapyClient-Centered TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)Gottman MethodMindfulness TherapyMotivational InterviewingNarrative TherapySolution-Focused TherapySomatic TherapyTrauma-Focused TherapyInternal Family SystemsSystemic Therapy

Experience

20+ years

Listed in

Hawaii, Florida

Languages

English

Questions

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of problems does she help with?

She helps with stress, anxiety, relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, addictions, parenting, grief, mood disorders, and related issues.

What is her overall approach to therapy?

Her style blends listening with skills-based work, using attachment, emotion-focused, and cognitive-behavioral methods to change unhelpful patterns.

How much clinical experience does she have?

She has 20 years of professional experience working in clinical settings and with adults on relationship and family-related concerns.

What credentials and location are listed?

She is an LMFT licensed in Hawaii and Florida and practices from Hawaii as her listed location.

Does she offer sessions in other languages or to international clients?

Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.

What session formats are used?

The original profile did not specify session formats. Confirm current session options before booking to know whether video, phone, or other formats are offered.

How are fees and payment handled?

Cost varies with location. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

How do I begin working with her?

Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.

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