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Jonnet Cruz, LMFT

  • Experience20 years
  • LocationHawaii
  • Focus areasStress and Anxiety, Relationship, and Family
  • Therapy approachesInternal Family Systems and Attachment-Based Therapy
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About Jonnet

Jonnet Cruz is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) who brings two decades of clinical experience to her practice in Hawaii. She works with people facing a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, relationship and family conflicts, trauma and abuse, mood disorders, addictions, and identity-related challenges.

Background and approach

With a strengths-based stance, Jonnet emphasizes clients' existing resources and helps them build new skills to navigate life transitions and emotional difficulties. Her work is informed by several well-established approaches, including Internal Family Systems, attachment-focused methods, cognitive-behavioral techniques, and dialectical strategies.

Jonnet integrates these tools to address issues like self-esteem, communication problems, grief, intimacy struggles, and co-occurring conditions such as bipolar disorder and substance use. She frames therapy as a collaborative process, helping clients clarify goals and select strategies that align with their values and needs.

Jonnet holds licensure in Hawaii and Florida and has experience across diverse clinical presentations. Her background supports tailored care that attends to attachment patterns, internal parts, and practical coping skills, all aimed at fostering greater emotional balance and more satisfying relationships.

Integrative Approaches and Online Access



Internal Family Systems (IFS) explores the inner parts that make up a person's inner life, helping people understand and unblend from protective or reactive parts so the core self can lead; this approach is often useful for trauma responses, conflicted emotions, and identity work. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns of connection and how early relational experiences shape current relationships, offering tools to improve communication, trust, and emotional safety. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes empathic listening and collaboration, creating space for clients to guide the pace and goals of care while the therapist reflects and supports their self-discovery.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process; Jonnet takes a collaborative stance and will work with each client to identify which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they consider whether exploring internal parts, repairing attachment patterns, or strengthening coping skills will best address the presenting concerns.

Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which allow flexibility for scheduling and different styles of communication. These formats make it possible to maintain continuity of care, practice skills between sessions, and adapt how people connect with a licensed professional based on what feels most helpful for them.

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does Jonnet commonly address in therapy?
She supports people with stress, anxiety, relationship and family issues, trauma and abuse, mood disorders, addictions, self-esteem, grief, intimacy and many related concerns listed in her specialties.
How would you describe the therapeutic style and approach?
The approach is collaborative and strengths-based, blending Internal Family Systems, attachment-informed work, CBT, DBT, and related methods to honor clients' experience while teaching practical skills.
What is Jonnet's clinical experience?
Jonnet has 20 years of professional experience working with a wide variety of presenting issues and has developed a practice informed by multiple therapeutic approaches.
What credentials and location are listed for this therapist?
She is an LMFT with licensure details HI LMFT MFT-343 and FL LMFT MT4888 and practices out of Hawaii.
Can sessions be conducted in languages other than English or with international clients?
Sessions are available in English only, and she is not currently accepting international clients.
What session formats are available for working together?
Jonnet offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to accommodate different schedules and communication preferences.
How are fees and scheduling handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and services use a subscription that can be canceled at any time; specific rates depend on those factors.
What steps are needed to begin therapy with Jonnet?
To get started, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to the therapist's availability.

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

Stress, AnxietyRelationship issuesFamily conflictsTrauma and abuseSelf esteem

Also works with

AddictionsLGBTGriefIntimacy-related issuesEating disordersParenting issuesAnger managementCareer difficultiesBipolar disorderDepressionCoping with life changesCoachingCompassion fatigueADHD

Additional focus areas

AbandonmentAttachment issuesBlended family issuesBody imageCo-morbidityCodependencyCommitment issuesCommunication problemsControl issuesDependent personalityDisruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)DissociationDivorce and separationDomestic violenceDrug and alcohol addictionEmptinessFamily of origin issuesFamily problemsForgivenessGuilt and shameImpulsivityInfidelityIsolation / lonelinessJealousyLife purposeVeteran and Armed Forces IssuesMood disordersMulticultural concernsObsessions, compulsions, and OCDPanic disorder and panic attacksPostpartum depressionPost-traumatic stressProcess addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)Self-harmSelf-loveSex addictionSexual assault and abuseSexualitySocial anxiety and phobiaSomatizationTrichotillomaniaWomen's issuesWorkplace issuesYoung adult issues

Therapeutic approaches

Attachment-Based TherapyClient-Centered TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)Gottman MethodMindfulness TherapyMotivational InterviewingNarrative TherapySolution-Focused TherapySomatic TherapyTrauma-Focused TherapyInternal Family SystemsSystemic Therapy

Experience

20+ years

Licensed

Hawaii, Florida

Languages

English