About Jonathan
Jonathan Kabat is a licensed marriage and family therapist who uses a blend of practical talk and experiential work. He focuses on how thoughts, feelings, and bodily sensations connect.
Background and approach
Jonathan helps people facing trauma, anxiety, addiction, grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, and life transitions. He emphasizes noticing patterns that keep people stuck and then testing small changes.
Sessions often include mindfulness exercises, attention to physical sensations, and straightforward conversation about choices and values. He draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Attachment-Based ideas to support real behavior changes.
Jonathan has about ten years of clinical experience in California. That time has included work with people dealing with post-traumatic stress, process addictions, and intense shame or guilt.
He also helps those feeling overwhelmed by stress, burnout, or compassion fatigue. His approach is collaborative and paced to each person.
He asks practical questions, suggests experiments to try between sessions, and reviews what helps. The goal is clearer priorities, steadier coping, and more reliable ways to act in line with what matters.
Jonathan pays attention to how broader social and ecological change affects emotional life. He supports people who find themselves anxious, angry, or grieving about environmental and social shifts, and he helps them move toward purposeful action and self-care.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on identifying what matters to you and taking small steps toward those values. It helps with anxiety, depression, and stuck patterns by teaching practical ways to accept difficult feelings while moving toward meaningful action.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact. It uses simple experiments and skill practice to reduce unhelpful thinking and build new habits for mood and stress management.
Attachment-Based Therapy attends to how early relationships shape expectations and emotional regulation. It can help people understand trust, closeness, and recurring relationship patterns so they can try different ways of connecting.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jonathan will collaborate with each person to choose techniques that match their goals, needs, and preferences. He checks in and adjusts the plan as progress and challenges appear.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared exercises. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier during busy days. Live chat and text work well for shorter check-ins, journaling between sessions, or when a written thread helps track progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English