About Jonnet
Jonnet Cruz is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 20 years of experience. She speaks plain, direct language and focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress or anxiety. Jonnet aims to create a calm space where clients can talk through what matters most to them.
Jonnet uses practical approaches to help people manage symptoms and improve daily functioning. She draws on attachment-based work and cognitive-behavioral techniques to identify patterns that keep problems going and to build new skills.
Background and approach
Emotion-focused methods are used when strong feelings need gentle attention and clearer understanding. Her background includes long experience working across relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, grief, and issues such as addiction and body image.
Over two decades she has supported people facing mood challenges like depression and bipolar, as well as those coping with life transitions, career stress, and parenting struggles. Sessions can include goal setting, skill practice, and exploring early relationship patterns that shape current reactions. She also integrates strategies from dialectical behavior ideas when emotion regulation and distress tolerance are priorities.
The result is a tailored mix of talking, practical tools, and steps to try between sessions. Jonnet works from Hawaii and conducts services in English. Her style centers on collaboration - listening first, then planning next steps together so clients leave with clear actions they can use right away.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape current reactions and connection patterns. In sessions this often means looking at past relationship experiences, noticing how they show up now, and practicing new ways of relating to reduce anxiety and improve closeness.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and replace them with more helpful ones. It is practical and skill-focused, useful for anxiety, stress, mood problems, and for creating routines that support better functioning.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) concentrates on understanding and expressing strong emotions to strengthen bonds and resolve hurt. It is often used when relationship patterns and intense feelings keep getting in the way of connection.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Jonnet will listen to your goals, talk through options, and adapt methods to fit what you need. She uses collaboration to decide whether the focus should be skills practice, processing emotional experiences, or reshaping relationship patterns.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for longer sessions and face-to-face conversation, phone can work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat and messaging fit quick check-ins or ongoing coaching. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to use different formats for different needs.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Hawaii, Florida
- Languages
- English
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