CJ Cruz, PsyD is a licensed clinical psychologist who specializes in the care of teens, young adults, and families navigating eating disorders, OCD/anxiety, emotion dysregulation, and self-harm. She helps individuals build skills they can use in real life, develop greater flexibility in how they respond to difficult emotions and experiences, and move toward lives that feel more meaningful and manageable.

Her approach is compassionate yet structured, tailored to each person’s strengths, needs, developmental stage, and family context, and grounded in evidence-based approaches such as DBT, FBT, ACT, and ERP to help clients make meaningful changes in everyday life.