About Liliana
Liliana Cruz is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Virginia. She brings seven years of clinical experience and focuses on practical support for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and family-related concerns. Liliana aims to offer clear feedback and steady guidance so clients can find more clarity and hope during hard times.
She favors a person-centered style that keeps the client's goals in view. Sessions are collaborative and geared toward solving current problems while also looking at patterns that keep difficulties going.
How Liliana works
Liliana uses cognitive behavioral ideas to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different ways of responding. Mindfulness and acceptance skills are woven into sessions to help with emotion regulation and staying present during distressing moments. Dialectical behavior techniques are available when clients need more skills for intense emotions or relationship stress.
The emphasis is on teaching tools that can be practiced between sessions. Liliana works with people to address issues like abandonment, attachment struggles, blended family challenges, body image, caregiver stress, and codependency. She also helps with aging and geriatric concerns, adoption and foster care matters, and coping after natural or human-caused disasters.
Her approach is straightforward and warm. Liliana aims to create a nonjudgmental space where people feel seen and heard. She partners with clients to set small, realistic goals and build habits that support lasting change.
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What Liliana works with
The areas below are the ones Liliana selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Virginia |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without fighting them, then move toward actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and finding motivation when life feels overwhelming. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety. It is practical and often involves homework between sessions. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve emotional regulation, which can help with trauma responses and ongoing worry.Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they decide whether ACT, CBT, mindfulness skills, or a combination is the best fit and adjust as progress unfolds.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face connection and visual cues, phone sessions can fit into a busy day or require less bandwidth, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing processing between meetings. These formats make it easier to schedule therapy around work, caregiving, or other commitments while keeping therapy focused on real-world change.
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