How Crystal works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LPCC, LMHC
- Licensed in
- Florida, Washington, California
- Years in practice
- 15
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Crystal
Crystal Cash is a licensed professional counselor with 15 years of clinical experience. She practices from a practical, down-to-earth perspective and aims to help people manage stress, anger, anxiety, and life changes. She works with individuals facing mood disorders, addictions, parenting strains, and relationship challenges.
Her approach blends techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing. She uses these methods to teach skills for coping, emotional regulation, and clearer thinking.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on simple, usable tools you can try between meetings. Crystal keeps her style warm and interactive. She treats people with respect and avoids stigmatizing labels.
Conversations are tailored to each person's needs rather than following a one-size-fits-all plan. She has experience helping people who have lived through physical trauma or emotional abuse. Crystal also works with concerns such as grief, intimacy-related issues, eating and sleeping problems, caregiver stress, and ADHD.
Her background includes assessment and mental health specialist roles that inform how she structures care. If someone is ready to make changes, she supports them in taking practical steps toward goals. The focus is on building coping skills, improving communication, and reducing patterns that cause distress.
Crystal invites clients to collaborate on a plan that fits their life and priorities.
What Crystal works with
Everything Crystal lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Crystal's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Crystal lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Evidence-based approaches for online care
Crystal commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in online sessions. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments to change behaviors and mood. ACT helps people clarify values, accept difficult feelings, and take committed action toward goals rather than trying to eliminate every uncomfortable thought.Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills and mindfulness are also part of her work to help people regulate intense emotions and stay present. DBT-style skills teach grounding, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness, while mindfulness practices strengthen awareness and reduce reactive responses.
Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they shape a plan that may combine skill-building, values work, and short experiments to see what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls fit deeper sessions that benefit from face-to-face interaction. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, skill reminders, and ongoing support between longer appointments.
Questions people ask about Crystal
What concerns can Crystal help with?
She helps with stress, anxiety, depression, anger, addictions, and mood challenges. Additional focuses include parenting strain, grief, trauma or abuse, ADHD, career issues, and relationship problems.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is warm and interactive. She mixes cognitive behavioral methods, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, ACT and DBT to teach practical coping and emotion regulation skills.
What kind of experience does she bring?
She has 15 years of experience working as an assessor and mental health specialist. That experience informs how she structures sessions and tailors plans to individual needs.
What credentials and location are listed?
She holds LPCC and LMHC credentials and practices in Florida.
Are sessions offered in other languages or internationally?
Sessions are offered in English, and she accepts international clients.
In what formats are sessions available?
She sees clients via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to match different needs and schedules.
How does cost and billing work?
Session cost varies with location and therapist availability. Services use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What steps do I take to get started?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.