About Crystal
Crystal Scurr is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, low self-esteem, and big life changes. She speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps that people can use right away.
Background and approach
Crystal honors each person's experience and looks for strengths to build on during sessions. With three decades of experience, Crystal draws on a range of practical approaches.
She uses techniques that help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. She also teaches skills for managing strong emotions and staying present in difficult moments.
Clients can expect a collaborative style. Crystal asks clear questions, listens for what matters most, and works with people on short-term goals as well as longer changes.
She offers tools for coping, communication, and decision making that fit day-to-day life. Her work covers a wide variety of concerns including grief, trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, career and motivation, anger, compassion fatigue, and attention-related struggles.
She also supports people dealing with adoption and foster care matters, blended family stress, fertility or caregiver strain, and relationship betrayals. Crystal is licensed in Hawaii and brings a practical, calm presence to sessions.
She encourages small steps and steady progress, helping people gain clarity and feel more in control of their choices.
Online approaches that match your needs
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify their values and take committed steps toward those values while allowing difficult thoughts and feelings to exist. It is often useful for anxiety, life transitions, and motivation challenges. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing them with real-world behavior changes to reduce anxiety and depression. It works well for stress, low mood, and problem solving. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches skills for tolerating distress, regulating emotions, and improving communication; it can help when strong emotions or relationship conflict get in the way of everyday life.Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and the issues you bring and recommend methods that fit your needs. Together you can try techniques, adjust the plan, and focus on what helps most in daily life.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and styles. Video is useful for deeper, face-to-face work while phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit a work break. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or ongoing skill reminders. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or travel.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Hawaii, Arizona, District of Columbia
- Languages
- English