About Jonnet
Jonnet Cruz is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with two decades of clinical experience. She focuses on practical steps people can use when stress, anxiety, grief, or relationship strain makes daily life hard. Jonnet aims to create a calm space to talk and sort through what matters most to you.
She uses simple, evidence-informed tools to help people handle mood challenges like depression and bipolar symptoms, navigate parenting and blended family tensions, and address issues such as addiction or eating concerns.
How Jonnet works
Her work also covers attachment wounds, abandonment fears, and intimacy-related struggles that affect relationships. Sessions often include learning concrete skills for managing strong emotions, improving communication, and building steadier routines. Jonnet blends approaches such as attachment-based methods, client-centered care, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior strategies, and emotionally focused work to match each person’s needs.
She believes clients know their stories best and that therapy is a collaborative process. Based in Hawaii with licenses in Hawaii and Florida, she brings 20 years of experience to each meeting. Her practice addresses co-occurring concerns like codependency, dissociation, and substance issues alongside mood or anxiety symptoms.
Work can focus on career stress, compassion fatigue, ADHD, and other challenges that affect daily functioning. People who want straightforward conversation, practical tools, and respectful guidance often find this approach helpful. Jonnet's sessions aim to help people make steady changes and feel more able to manage life’s ups and downs.
Jonnet lists 15 ways of working on the entry:
- 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
What Jonnet works with
The areas below are the ones Jonnet selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Hawaii |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape reactions now and helps people form steadier bonds and clearer communication. It is useful for attachment wounds, abandonment issues, and intimacy concerns.Client-centered therapy puts the person's experience at the center and emphasizes listening, validation, and collaboration to build insight and self-direction. This approach supports work on self-esteem, life transitions, and relationship stress.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Jonnet will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences. That means trying practical tools, checking what helps, and adjusting the focus over time together.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to give more flexibility. Video lets people read facial cues and practice communication skills. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth or camera use is an issue, and messaging can support brief check-ins or ongoing coaching between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving schedules and to keep momentum between sessions.
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Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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