About Crystal
Crystal Scurr is a licensed marriage and family therapist with three decades of experience. She focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, life transitions, or relationship strain. Her approach is grounded in practical tools and straightforward conversation.
She encourages people to notice their strengths and use them to move forward. Crystal works in a way that centers each person's story. She uses clear techniques from evidence-informed methods to help with worry, low mood, and problems like parenting stress or career uncertainty.
Background and approach
Sessions often include short skills practice and steps to try between meetings. Her background includes long professional experience supporting people through grief, trauma, and caregiver fatigue. That history means she is comfortable addressing both immediate problems and longer-term patterns that get in the way of daily functioning.
She also helps with issues such as codependency, communication breakdowns, and intimacy-related worries. Crystal draws on approaches like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and mindfulness to tailor work to each person. She explains ideas plainly and coaches people to test small changes that add up.
Her goal is to help people build workable coping strategies and clearer choices. Based in Hawaii, she offers sessions in English and uses a mix of video, phone, chat, and messaging to fit different schedules. Crystal encourages prospective clients to take the next step and complete a brief matching questionnaire to begin scheduling.
Approaches that translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and focus on what matters most to them. It uses values-based actions and small experiments to reduce avoidance and increase meaning. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact; it teaches practical skills like thought tracking and behavioral activation that are easy to practice between sessions.Crystal treats finding the right approach as a team effort. She will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they try methods that fit the person’s life and adjust the plan as they learn what helps most.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to give flexible ways to connect. Video sessions allow face-to-face work and screen sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions can be a simpler check-in when video isn’t convenient, and chat or messaging can support brief coaching, quick skills practice, or ongoing check-ins between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to use techniques in daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Hawaii, Arizona, District of Columbia
- Languages
- English
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