About Jonnet
Jonnet Cruz is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing from Hawaii. She brings 20 years of experience and a calm, straightforward style to sessions. She meets people where they are and helps them handle stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, addiction, body image, parenting strain, and other life changes.
Jonnet emphasizes that clients know their own stories and strengths. She listens first, then offers grounded tools and options to try.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical steps people can use between meetings alongside deeper work on patterns and feelings. Her background includes long-term clinical work across varied settings, giving her experience with trauma, mood concerns such as bipolar disorder, ADHD, and co-occurring substance issues.
She uses a mix of approaches aimed at both thoughts and bodily experience, so people can learn ways to manage strong emotions and return to daily life. Jonnet draws on Attachment-Based and Client-Centered methods alongside somatic ideas and cognitive-behavioral techniques. This blend helps address the impact of early relationships, current communication patterns, and the body’s role in holding stress.
Sessions are offered in English and delivered online via multiple formats to suit each person’s needs. Practical matters like scheduling follow a simple matching and booking process so people can start at a pace that fits them.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Somatic-informed work focuses on how the body holds stress and emotion. In online sessions this can mean noticing breath, movement, posture, and physical sensations while talking through what comes up, which can help with anxiety, trauma responses, and emotional regulation.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how past relationship patterns affect current connections. Online sessions use conversation and reflection to uncover those patterns and practice new ways of relating, which is helpful for communication problems, commitment worries, and intimacy concerns.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your goals, try methods that fit your needs, and adjust over time. Clients and the therapist decide together which tools to keep and which to change as progress is tracked.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text messaging. These options let people work around busy schedules, caregiving, and geographic distance while keeping consistent contact with a licensed professional. The variety of formats also lets people pick what feels safest for discussing sensitive topics and practicing new skills.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- 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
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Hawaii, Florida
- Languages
- English