Crystal Cruz, LMHC, M.Ed, NCC
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Crystal Cruz, LMHC, MEd, NCC, is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who works with individuals and couples navigating trauma, anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, addiction recovery, low self-esteem, burnout, and other challenges that can interfere with living fully.
Crystal brings a warm, compassionate, and holistic perspective to therapy while helping clients understand the deeper connections among past experiences, present emotional triggers, thoughts, behaviors, relationships, and physical responses. Rather than focusing only on managing what is happening on the surface, she works with clients to better understand the roots of the patterns affecting their lives and create meaningful, lasting change.
Trauma and PTSD are among Crystal’s primary areas of specialization, and EMDR therapy is one of the approaches she incorporates based on the individual needs of her clients. Her work also draws from a range of therapeutic approaches, including DBT, CBT, Gottman Method, attachment-based, psychodynamic, person-centered, and trauma-focused therapies.
Crystal has worked in the mental health and substance abuse field since 2018 and has experience supporting individuals, couples, and families across private practice, nonprofit and school settings, as well as inpatient, partial hospitalization, and outpatient mental health and substance abuse programs. She also has specialized training in couples work and brings that experience to clients facing relationship and marital concerns.
At the heart of Crystal’s approach is a desire to help clients connect the dots between what they have experienced and what they are experiencing now. She provides a compassionate space to explore difficult experiences and emotional triggers while working toward healthier thoughts, behaviors, relationships, and ways of responding to life. Her goal is not simply to help clients cope with life, but to help them move beyond old wounds and more fully live it.
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