About Rhiannon
Rhiannon Cruz is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with ten years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, depression, grief, trauma, and addiction. Rhiannon aims to make conversations straightforward and useful for people under strain.
She draws on work in outpatient and inpatient treatment settings and community programs. That range means she has experience talking one-on-one with people in crisis and in longer-term care.
Background and approach
Her practical approach centers on helping people name feelings and find small steps forward. In sessions she uses clear, goal-focused methods like cognitive-behavioral techniques and solution-focused ideas. She also brings person-centered listening and mindfulness practices to calm racing thoughts and build emotional awareness.
Motivational interviewing and narrative work help people explore change and reshape unhelpful stories about themselves. Rhiannon explains things plainly and encourages courage and openness. She teaches ways to identify emotions and validate them without judgment.
Her style is direct but supportive, aimed at producing useful skills people can try between sessions. People come to her for help with relationships, intimacy concerns, parenting stress, sleep problems, anger, body image, caregiver fatigue, and transitions like divorce or job changes. She works from Arizona and offers English-language sessions.
She invites clients to commit to the process and to take small, practical steps toward change.
How counseling approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy centers conversations on the person's own perspective and goals. In practice this means the therapist listens, reflects what she hears, and helps people find their own solutions for anxiety, grief, and relationship strain. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks down how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact. It provides practical exercises and thought-record techniques to manage anxiety, low mood, and sleep problems.Choosing an approach is collaborative. Rhiannon will work with each person to try methods that match their needs and goals. Together they set small steps, check what works, and adjust the plan if needed rather than committing to a single path up front.
Online therapy offers a range of ways to connect: video calls for a full-session face-to-face feel, phone sessions when bandwidth is limited, live chat for brief check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to fit sessions into work breaks, manage shorter check-ins, or avoid being on camera when that helps. The formats aim to give flexibility so therapy can fit into daily life and support gradual progress.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English
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