About Liliana
Liliana Cruz is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Virginia with seven years of clinical experience. She draws on straightforward, practical methods to help people get through anxious days, manage stress, and cope with depression. Her work often focuses on phobias, trauma and abuse, and improving self-esteem.
Clients can expect a calm, down-to-earth approach that centers the person rather than the problem. Sessions aim to clarify what matters most to the client and to find realistic steps forward.
Background and approach
Liliana uses tools from cognitive behavioral approaches and mindfulness to make daily life feel more manageable. In sessions she listens for patterns that keep someone stuck and then helps test different ways of responding. That can look like trying small behavioral experiments, practicing grounding or breathing techniques, and adjusting unhelpful thinking.
The goal is to build skills that clients can use between sessions. She also incorporates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) ideas to help people focus on values and committed action when fear or avoidance shows up. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills are used when emotion regulation and distress tolerance are priorities.
Liliana adapts these approaches to each person’s situation rather than following a single script. Her practice includes work around family stress, attachment and abandonment concerns, body image, caregiver strain, and habit patterns like codependency or people-pleasing. People who want clear, practical steps and a respectful listening space often find this style helpful.
How specific approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice what they value and take small, meaningful steps in that direction even when fear or discomfort appears. It can help with avoidance, phobias, and low motivation by shifting attention toward action. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and uses practical exercises to change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and specific fears. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus, which can be useful for stress, panic, and emotion regulation.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has helped before. Together they decide whether ACT, CBT, mindfulness skills, DBT elements, or a mix fits best and adjust as needed over time.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match practical needs. Video allows face-to-face conversation and interactive exercises. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be a simpler check-in. Live chat and text messaging let people send short updates or receive coaching between sessions. This flexibility helps fit counseling into busy days and different routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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