About Jonathan
Jonathan Kabat is a licensed marriage and family therapist who focuses on somatic practices alongside talk therapy. He helps people who feel stuck by attending to the body’s signals as well as thoughts and emotions. His style is steady and exploratory, aimed at helping someone find practical next steps that make daily life easier.
He often works with trauma, anxiety, depression, stress, and addiction-related concerns. He also supports people facing grief, intimacy questions, anger, low self-worth, and career or life-purpose doubts.
Background and approach
Parenting stress and relationship strain are part of his focus as well. Jonathan uses a mix of approaches to match whatever each person needs. He blends somatic work with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-based ideas, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and existential perspectives.
Sessions can include talking, noticing bodily sensations, and trying new practices to shift unhelpful patterns. He has ten years of clinical experience and holds the California LMFT credential. That background informs a flexible, person-centered process that aims to help people build more resilience and clarity.
Jonathan also pays attention to how wider social and ecological change affects feelings and motivation. People who come to him often want to change repetitive habits, recover after trauma, or reconnect to a sense of purpose. He invites curiosity and steady practice, helping people discover small, concrete steps toward the life they want.
How somatic and talk therapies work online
Somatic work pays attention to bodily sensations, posture, and movement as a way to understand stress and trauma. Online sessions can include guided body awareness, breathing practices, and simple movement prompts to help people notice how feelings show up in the body. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people clarify their values and take committed steps toward them while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and decision-making struggles.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will check in with the person’s needs, goals, and preferences and suggest mixing somatic practice with ACT or cognitive techniques as useful. Together they try methods and adjust based on what actually helps in daily life.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let the therapist see posture and affect, phone sessions suit those on the go, and live chat or text-based messaging can support short check-ins or skill practice between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week and to continue steady practice from home.
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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