- Attachment based therapy
- CBT focused work
- DBT skills integration
About Jonnet
Jonnet Cruz is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in Hawaii with 20 years of experience. She works with adults on concerns such as stress, anxiety, relationships, family patterns, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, addictions, and grief. Jonnet also focuses on intimacy-related issues, parenting challenges, eating concerns, career questions, mood disorders, ADHD, and compassion fatigue.
She uses a practical, person-centered approach that treats clients as the expert on their own lives. Sessions emphasize understanding how family of origin patterns and attachment styles continue to affect current relationships and choices. Jonnet draws on methods aimed at changing painful patterns and improving emotional regulation.
Her work often blends cognitive behavioral techniques with attachment-based ideas to shift unhelpful thoughts and interactions. She also incorporates skills from dialectical behavior therapy for coping and distress tolerance when those tools fit the client's needs. Emotionally-focused ideas inform sessions that center on relationship and intimacy issues.
Jonnet has experience across a wide range of concerns including abandonment, blended family issues, codependency, communication problems, dissociation, domestic violence, and substance use. She pays attention to how co-occurring problems influence one another and adjusts the focus accordingly.
Throughout the process she aims to make room for practical steps clients can try between sessions, such as communication experiments or emotion-regulation exercises. People who want to understand how their family background still shapes choices and relationships may find this approach straightforward and action oriented.
How her approaches translate to online work
Jonnet commonly uses Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) in her work. Attachment-based approaches look at how early family relationships shape current patterns and help people recognize and change those repeating roles. Client-centered work focuses on listening, reflecting, and following what the client brings so goals emerge from the person’s own priorities. CBT targets thinking and behavior patterns with practical exercises to reduce anxiety, improve mood, and change unhelpful responses.Finding the right approach is part of the early sessions. She works collaboratively to decide which methods suit a person’s goals, needs, and preferences. That means trying different tools, checking in on what helps, and shifting the focus when needed.
Session formats are not specified in the biography, so confirm current online options before booking. In general, online appointments can make it easier to fit therapy into work and family life - for example by avoiding travel, allowing shorter check-ins, or offering sessions without video when bandwidth or visual focus is an issue. Licensed therapists can use these formats to maintain regular contact and to practice communication and coping skills between meetings.
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Experience
20+ years
Listed in
Hawaii, Florida
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does she address?
She works with stress, anxiety, relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, addictions, grief, intimacy issues, eating concerns, parenting, anger, career matters, bipolar and depression, ADHD and related areas.
What is her therapeutic style?
She combines client-centered listening with practical techniques from CBT and DBT and uses attachment-based ideas to look at family of origin patterns.
How much experience does she have?
She has 20 years of professional experience working with a wide range of concerns and client situations.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is an LMFT and is licensed in Hawaii and Florida. Her practice base is Hawaii.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can international clients work with her?
She does not accept international clients at this time.
How does billing and cost work?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the steps to begin working together?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
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