About Liliana
Liliana Cruz is a licensed professional counselor with seven years of experience helping people through anxiety, depression, stress, trauma, and self-esteem struggles. She practices in Virginia as an LPC and offers straightforward, practical support. Sessions focus on clear goals and steady steps forward.
Liliana uses a person-centered style that centers the client's perspective. She listens for patterns and beliefs that get in the way. Then she helps clients try small, doable changes to test what works for them.
Background and approach
Her work draws on cognitive behavioral methods to identify thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. She also uses mindfulness and acceptance-based strategies to help people tolerate hard feelings and make values-driven choices. Techniques are adapted to each person's situation and goals.
In sessions she emphasizes collaboration and concrete skills. Clients learn tools for managing anxiety, improving communication, and coping with past hurts. The focus is on practical progress rather than long lectures or vague advice.
Liliana pays attention to life context, including issues such as adoption and foster care, attachment concerns, caregiver stress, body image, and blended-family dynamics. She also supports people facing aging-related questions and challenges tied to trauma or abandonment. Therapy can include short-term work on a specific problem or longer-term work to reshape patterns.
Liliana aims to help people find clearer direction and more reliable ways of handling life’s challenges.
Approaches that guide online work and practical benefits
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then take steps that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, low mood, and problems with motivation. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and changing patterns of behavior. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress by teaching concrete skills to shift reactions. Mindfulness Therapy trains simple habits of present-moment awareness to reduce rumination and increase emotional regulation, which helps with worry and reactivity.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and past treatment to decide which methods to try. This is a collaborative process and techniques are adjusted as progress is tracked.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for full conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat or text messaging can support quick check-ins, skill practice, and ongoing encouragement between longer sessions. These options make it easier to match therapy to a person's schedule and day-to-day needs.
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What this counselor 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