Rhiannon Cruz
Compassionate, practical help for family challenges
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed in
- Arizona
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Rhiannon
Rhiannon Cruz is a Licensed Professional Counselor who focuses on family and parenting concerns among a broad range of issues. She writes plainly and listens closely to help people name what they are feeling. Sessions aim to make emotions easier to understand and respond to, rather than react to.
She asks direct questions and offers practical steps to try between meetings. Rhiannon draws on ten years of clinical experience in outpatient, inpatient, and community settings.
Background and approach
That background means she is comfortable moving between structured skills work and open conversation. She blends evidence-based ideas with reflection about personal stories to make therapy feel useful and grounded. Her methods include Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, mindfulness practices, Motivational Interviewing, and Narrative Therapy.
Those approaches let her teach coping tools, shift unhelpful thoughts, and explore how life stories shape behavior. Typical concerns she addresses include stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, low self-esteem, depression, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, sleeping problems, parenting stress, anger, career changes, and compassion fatigue. Additional focus areas include attachment-related issues, blended family challenges, codependency, and divorce and separation.
Rhiannon works as an LPC in Arizona and conducts sessions in English. She encourages small steps, clear goals, and honest feedback so clients can see what helps and adjust as they go.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Rhiannon commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Client-Centered Therapy in online sessions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying small behavior changes to reduce symptoms like anxiety or sleep problems. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening, validation, and building a safe space so clients can better understand their feelings.She also incorporates mindfulness techniques to help people notice thoughts and bodily responses without immediately reacting. Mindfulness can be useful for stress, anger, and situations where rumination or overwhelm get in the way of daily life. Together these approaches let her balance skill building with supportive conversation so the client guides the pace.
Finding the right approach usually happens together. She works with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That collaborative process makes it easier to try a strategy and adjust if it does not feel right.
Online sessions are available as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make scheduling more flexible and let people keep therapy going from home or work. The variety of formats allows for short check-ins or longer, more focused conversations depending on what someone needs that week.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English
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