About Veronica
Veronica Cruz-Martinez is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) who brings ten years of professional experience to her work. She focuses on practical tools for stress and anxiety and on helping people navigate big life changes. Her style is direct and compassionate.
She aims to help people build coping skills such as meditation, exercise routines, and other calming practices. She also supports clients in finding outside resources and referrals when more help is needed.
Background and approach
Veronica uses a mix of person-focused and goal-oriented methods. She draws on Client-Centered Therapy to make space for each persons concerns. She pairs that with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify thoughts and habits that keep stress and anxiety going.
She also uses mindfulness techniques and solution-focused methods to create short-term plans and daily practices. Motivational Interviewing is part of her approach when people want to change patterns like addictive behaviors or low motivation. Veronica has worked with issues that include trauma, grief, parenting strain, relationship and family problems, LGBT concerns, depression, anger, self-esteem, and ADHD.
Her practice also addresses more specific stressors such as caregiver strain, blended family adjustment, and coping after loss or separation. Clients typically work on clear goals and learn skills they can use between sessions. Veronica emphasizes collaboration, practical steps, and referrals when a different service would better meet a persons needs.
Online approaches that focus on skills and goals
Veronica uses Client-Centered Therapy to create a listening space where people feel heard and understood. This approach helps when someone needs support sorting through feelings and deciding what matters most to them.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and change daily habits that feed anxiety and low mood. CBT provides concrete exercises and simple experiments to try between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Veronica will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then match methods that suit their needs. She treats the choice of approach as a collaborative decision that can be adjusted as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for longer talks and visual cues, phone sessions can fit a break at work or require less bandwidth, and chat or messaging is handy for brief check-ins or times someone prefers not to be on camera. These options are designed to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- California, New Jersey, Oregon
- Languages
- English
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