LMFT
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.
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Experience
20+ years
Licensed
Hawaii, Florida
Languages
English