About Jonnet
Jonnet Cruz is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 20 years of clinical experience. She practices from Hawaii and brings a calm, straightforward style to sessions. Parents and individuals often come for help with stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, ADHD, mood shifts, and trauma related struggles.
Her approach centers on listening first. She helps people tell their story and identify small, useful changes they can try between sessions. Jonnet uses practical skills from cognitive behavioral therapy and emotion-focused methods to address thoughts, feelings, and interactions that cause pain.
Background and approach
Attachment-based work is part of her toolkit, helping people notice patterns that come from important relationships. Dialectical behavior therapy skills are used when emotion regulation and distress tolerance feel difficult to manage. These methods are offered in accessible, step-by-step ways rather than technical labels.
Over two decades she has supported adults across a wide range of concerns - from grief and substance issues to parenting strain and intimacy problems. She emphasizes building coping skills and clearer communication so daily life feels more manageable. Sessions are practical and collaborative.
Jonnet aims to create a space where people can try new ways of responding, practice skills, and track progress. Her goal is to help clients find tools that fit their life and goals.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Attachment-based work focuses on patterns in close relationships and helps people notice how past connections shape current reactions. In online sessions this looks like gentle questions about common interaction patterns and practicing new ways to express needs and set boundaries. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, targets thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going by teaching tools to challenge unhelpful thinking and try different actions. It suits worries, mood shifts, and daily routines that clients want to change.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will review concerns, goals, and what feels most useful to the client. That collaborative process helps decide whether attachment work, CBT, DBT skills, or a mix of methods will best support progress.
Online formats available include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for full conversations and skill practice, phone can be simpler when less bandwidth is needed, live chat supports brief check-ins, and text messaging lets clients send notes or reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- 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
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
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