About Liliana
Liliana Cruz is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Virginia with seven years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, and issues that affect self-esteem. She aims to bring clarity and practical steps when life feels overwhelming or uncertain.
Her style is warm and down-to-earth. She prioritizes creating a nonjudgmental space where people feel seen and heard. Sessions concentrate on everyday problems and on tools that can be used between meetings to reduce distress and improve coping.
Background and approach
In practice she blends several evidence-informed approaches. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to identify unhelpful thinking and shift behavior. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify values and take committed steps toward them.
Mindfulness techniques and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills are offered when managing strong emotions and building tolerance for difficult moments. Liliana works with issues beyond core concerns, including relationship communication, attachment and abandonment worries, caregiver stress, body image, adoption and foster care themes, and challenges tied to aging. She also addresses co-occurring difficulties such as codependency and avoidant or dependent personality patterns.
Her approach is collaborative: she and the client decide what to try and adjust plans as progress unfolds. People who want straightforward, practical guidance and tools to manage anxiety and regain daily functioning may find her approach helpful.
Therapeutic approaches for online support
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters to a person and taking small, values-based steps even when feelings are hard. It is often used for anxiety and stress when someone wants to live by their priorities rather than be led by worry.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and try alternatives that reduce distress. It is practical and skill-focused, useful for anxiety, depression, and low mood.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple awareness and grounding practices that reduce reactivity and improve focus. These techniques can help when strong emotions make daily tasks difficult.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will work collaboratively to choose methods that match a client's goals, needs, and preferences, and will adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions can take place by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is good for in-depth work and real-time interaction, phone can be easier when internet bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging offer quick check-ins or brief support between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit around work, caregiving, and daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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