Therapists in Middlebury, VT

I create a trusting, safe, and fulfilling bond with each client. From there, I follow your lead as we establish goals tailored to your challenges while slowly making strides towards a happier, more fulfilling, and healthier lifestyle. If you are someone that is interested in making changes for the better, while in a casual environment, then we are a good match!

Jonathan graduated from Lesley College in Cambridge Massachusetts with a Master's Degree in Counseling/ Psychology. Jonathan has been studying and integrating transpersonal-psychology with expressive art therapies, meditation, and spirituality counseling adults, children, adolescents, families, and couples for over 30 years in schools, residential and outpatient settings. He specializes in treating issues of depression, anxiety, anger management, substance abuse, grief and loss, trauma and self-esteem. Sessions are currently being held in Vermont and in Kansas via telehealth.

Currently accepting new clients! I believe we all have the inner capacity to live fulfilling lives that feel authentic and meaningful. Therapy can be a way to uncover your innate capacity for healing and growth and reconnect with yourself. Together, we will explore patterns of thought and behavior that contribute to your current challenges. Bringing curiosity into our work, we will listen to what life is communicating and imagine new ways of relating that feel alive and hopeful. Developing a collaborative relationship rooted in compassion, respect and nonjudgment serves as our foundation.

As of 3/28/24: Accepting new clients. I work individually with adults, helping those who are struggling with issues related to anxiety, depression, trauma or identity development. I believe that the therapeutic relationship allows people to consider alternative ways of examining their thoughts and emotional responses. I strive to help people develop a more positive relationship with their thoughts and emotions in order to struggle less with daily stressors in a safe, non-judgmental environment.

I am a rostered, prelicensed clinical social worker, and I want to put my skills and experience to use for anyone who is grappling with transition, grief, trauma, depression, anxiety, no matter how near or far they are from home. I have years of experience with intercultural communication and adaptation through my studies, therapy work, my time as an English as a Second Language Teacher, and my own personal experiences as a stranger in strange lands. I want to continue serving refugees and immigrants as they build a new life in green Vermont.

I have been in the counseling field for over 30 years and have spent my time in Community Mental Health and Private Practice. I believe in the power of the human spirit to rise above the suffering that we all experience. Mindfulness is the foundation of my practice and I believe that becoming aware of our thinking patterns and distortions can move us in the direction of less suffering. When we can live in the present moment we can be free of the past and the depression this can cause and free of the future where anxiety and worry can reside. We can shed the stories we have carried for many years and develop a more spiritual path.

Ideally, I’m looking to connect with a client’s desire to move forward and make change in life and to progress through challenges, as well as through traumas. With older teenagers, adults and parents dialogue is the primary foundation to build a therapeutic relationship. With children, it is my experience being more playful and more body-based is a fun and effective therapeutic relationship.

LEAVE AN EMAIL IN ADDITION TO A PHONE. NOTE MY RETURN PHONE CALL WILL COME UP AS PRIVATE, ANONYMOUS, OR UNLISTED. I help people overcome their addictions, manage anger, depression, and anxiety, and cope with trauma. I offer guidance to those who have family addicted to drugs or alcohol. I am dedicated to improving quality of life for people. I routinely go far above and beyond expectations. I am respectful but very direct and straightforward.

Openings available (January 2024). Please contact via email first! (Easier for me to respond and get things started). I work well with clients seeking presence, compassion, and the space for vulnerability across a broad range of presenting concerns. My personal style supports witnessing and unburdening as much as "diagnosis" and "treatment". I offer validation and acceptance within a co-created relationship. Warmth and humor are necessary touchstones while we explore the arc of life.

For more information, you can access my professional website by clicking on the "website" button below my photo on the left. In summary, I am a licensed psychologist-doctorate who has been providing psychological services to adults and older adults since 1992. Conditions treated include anxiety, depression, anger management, grief/bereavement, life transition difficulties, relationship, and physical health problems. Psychological testing services (personality or cognitive/capacity testing) are offered as well. Providing services for all genders, faiths, and orientations.

Thank you for considering my counseling services. My work is grounded in the belief that change, growth, and healing best occurs through a caring, collaborative, holistic, and warm space. I am a firm believer in establishing a deep and trusting therapeutic relationship within which we can explore the issues at hand. I seek to understand, increase awareness, improve interpersonal skills and encourage growth.

I like to start by building trust and finding out what goals you want to set for yourself. A safe, encouraging atmosphere with no authoritarian or shaming attitudes is important. Humor is useful with couples, families or teens. Role-plays are a fun way to practice new relationship skills.

I specialize in helping adults and teens who struggle with attachment issues and low self-esteem. These can come from trauma, loss, abuse, or bullying. They impact how you see yourself and connect with friends, partners, and family. If you feel isolated, misunderstood, or anxious around others, you are not alone. There is a solution.

Getting Back On Track Counseling offers multiple decades of familiarity with the issues of substance abuse, faith, marriage & pre-marriage, relationships, military member & family pre-/post-deployment, suicide, trauma, post-traumatic stress, blended families, and stress management. GBOTC strives to assist individuals, couples, and families in moving forward with a strength-based focus. Specialized training includes Addiction Treatment in Military & Veteran Culture, Clinical Supervision in the Addiction Profession, Strong Bonds (marital/significant other/family relationships), and PTSD/trauma resiliency.

Taking the first step can always be the scariest. Challenging yourself outside your comfort zone, thinking about yourself from within, while utilizing nature's abilities to help steer you in the right direction and create healthy strategies on decreasing the anxiety, depression, and/or other concerns that you may be experiencing. We will disconnect from technology and immerse ourselves into the trees, in order to rejuvenate our inner self.