About Crystal
Crystal Scurr is a licensed marriage and family therapist with three decades of experience. She helps people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, relationship strain, low self-esteem, life transitions, or the demands of parenting. Her approach treats clients as the experts of their own lives and focuses on practical steps to move forward.
Her style is straightforward and warm. She listens, asks clear questions, and offers tools people can use between sessions.
Background and approach
She often combines goal-focused strategies with mindfulness to build day-to-day coping skills and increase confidence. Crystal draws from several evidence-informed methods including acceptance and commitment ideas, cognitive behavior techniques, and solution-focused tools. She tailors these approaches to the person's situation and priorities rather than using a fixed formula.
Sessions commonly include short skill practices, action steps, and review of what worked since the last visit. She has worked across settings for 30 years and holds the LMFT credential. Her practice covers a wide range of concerns such as trauma and grief, career and motivation, compassion fatigue, ADHD, blended family challenges, and fertility or adoption-related stress.
Crystal aims to help people regain a sense of direction and calm. People who connect best with her tend to want clear, practical steps and gentle accountability. She encourages small changes that build momentum and supports clients as they try new ways of coping and relating.
How evidence-based approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, low motivation, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and changing behavior in small steps to reduce distress and improve mood.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to goals, try methods that seem to fit, and adjust plans based on what helps. Clients and the therapist decide together which techniques to keep using and which to change.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video lets people talk face-to-face and practice skills together. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging can be useful for quick problem-solving, homework support, or when scheduling makes real-time calls difficult. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and keep progress moving between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- 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
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