Liliana Cruz

Liliana Cruz is an LPC (Licensed Professional Counselor) with seven years of clinical experience in Virginia. She focuses on stress, anxiety, family concerns, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, and depression. Liliana frames her work around practical steps clients can try between sessions. She uses clear, goal-focused conversations to help people sort through what feels stuck. Sessions typically look at patterns, beliefs, and reactions that keep problems going. Liliana draws on cognitive-behavioral ideas and other approaches to help people test small changes and notice what shifts. Her style emphasizes listening and honest feedback rather than lengthy theory. She helps clients identify small experiments to try in daily life and then reviews what happened. That hands-on pattern is useful for people dealing with anxiety, low mood, or family-related stress. Liliana also uses acceptance and mindfulness-based tools to help with overwhelming emotions. These techniques are used alongside skills training from dialectical behavior therapy when emotion regulation or distress tolerance is needed. She aims to give tools that fit into a person's routine. People who have experienced abandonment, adoption or foster care issues, attachment concerns, body image challenges, caregiver stress, or blended family dynamics may find relevant experience here. Liliana works with issues linked to avoidant or dependent personality styles, codependency, commitment and communication struggles, and coping after natural or human-caused disasters. She practices in Virginia and conducts sessions in English. Before booking, confirm current session options and formats to be sure they fit your needs.

How her approaches translate to online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and values-driven action. It helps people faced with uncertainty make choices that line up with what matters to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and offers practical experiments to test new ways of reacting. This approach is often used for anxiety and depression. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to lessen reactivity and support clearer decision making. Choosing the right approach is part of the work itself. Liliana works collaboratively with clients to identify which methods fit their goals and daily life. She will suggest options, try them, and adjust based on what feels useful. Confirm the therapist's current session options before booking so you know which formats are offered. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a workday, reduce travel time, or allow a shorter check-in when schedules are tight. It also lets clients practice skills in the real environments where problems happen and then discuss what did or didn’t work in the next session.