About Jonnet
Jonnet Cruz is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 20 years of clinical experience based in Hawaii. She offers calm, practical help for people dealing with stress, anxiety, relationship strains, grief, and issues around identity and self-esteem.
Background and approach
Jonnet speaks plainly and focuses on what a parent or adult can do next. She meets people where they are and builds steps that feel achievable.
Jonnet emphasizes that clients know their own story and brings tools to help them move through stuck patterns. She uses attachment-based ideas to look at how relationships shape feelings and behavior.
She also draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to help change unhelpful thinking and develop new coping skills. Her work often includes emotion-focused methods to deepen understanding of difficult feelings and interaction patterns.
Jonnet adapts her approach to each person, combining brief skills practice with deeper relational work when needed. She pays attention to practical outcomes like better communication, clearer boundaries, and steadier moods.
Clients can expect straightforward talk, guided exercises, and a focus on small changes that add up over time. Jonnet supports people coping with trauma, addiction, parenting stress, career pressure, and major life transitions.
She also works with issues such as attachment wounds, blended family challenges, body image, and substance use concerns. Sessions are offered in English and available through video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Jonnet holds licenses as an LMFT in Hawaii and Florida and blends experience with a warm, pragmatic approach.
How Jonnet’s Approaches Work Online
Attachment-based work looks at how early connections affect current relationships and emotional reactions; it helps people trace patterns that repeat in intimate and family relationships. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying practical experiments to shift feelings and behavior. Emotion-focused methods help name strong feelings and change how people respond in close relationships to improve connection and reduce conflict.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Jonnet discusses goals and preferences with each person and mixes methods that match those needs. She helps people decide whether they want short-term skills work, deeper relational exploration, or both, and adjusts the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video is useful for longer talks and skills coaching; phone works when video is not possible or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging are helpful for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or continuing work between sessions. These options let people fit therapy into busy schedules, manage appointments from different locations, and choose the format that feels most comfortable for regular work.
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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