Valeria Cruz

About

Years of this work have convinced me that almost nobody is angry about the thing they are yelling about. The argument about the dishes is never about the dishes. Anger management sits at the center of my practice, and masculinity is almost always the subtext, whoever the client is. My toolkit is CBT: specific, tested, and quicker to show results than most people expect. As a therapist of color, I know the difference between being angry and being read as angry, and we can talk about both. I am gender expansive, which in practice means the armor can come off at my door. My first clinical home was a campus counseling center, where anger so often turned out to be a language problem. You can expect direct feedback from me, offered plainly and without theatrics. I practice the way I always have: steady, unhurried, and firmly on your side. If that sounds useful, I would be glad to hear from you.