About Jonathan
Jonathan Goelz is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, low self-esteem, and relationship concerns. He supports clients facing grief, trauma, parenting strain, career stress, ADHD, and issues around intimacy and communication. Jonathan works with LGBT clients and people navigating major life changes or burnout.
He uses somatic awareness alongside talk-based methods to help people notice how their body and mind react to stress.
Background and approach
Jonathan blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help clients clarify values and change patterns that get in the way of daily life. He also draws on attachment-informed work to look at how early relationships shape current struggles. Jonathan aims for straightforward, respectful conversations.
Sessions focus on practical steps, small experiments, and skills people can use between meetings. He adjusts the pace and techniques to fit each person's needs and goals. He holds the license LCSW and brings ten years of professional experience to his practice.
He is licensed in multiple U.S. states and is based in Georgia. Jonathan accepts international clients and conducts sessions in English. Getting started involves a brief matching questionnaire and scheduling a session.
Jonathan views the first steps as collaborative - he helps set goals and picks methods that fit each person’s life and preferences.
Therapy approaches and how they work online
Somatic-informed work helps people tune into bodily sensations linked to stress and emotion, using gentle exercises to notice and shift physical tension. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters to a person and taking small actions toward those values even when difficult feelings show up. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current bonds and communication, helping people develop more supported ways of relating.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, preferences, and daily life. Together they will try techniques, review what helps, and adjust the plan as needed so the work feels useful and doable.
Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue work between appointments. Jonathan uses these formats to share exercises, teach practical skills, and track progress in ways that match each person's routine and comfort.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- California, Florida, New Jersey, Georgia, Ohio, New York
- Languages
- English