Jonathan Kabat
Practical therapy for patterns and purpose
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed in
- California
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Jonathan
Jonathan Kabat is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) with ten years of clinical experience. He focuses on clear, practical work that helps people notice what patterns are running their lives and try different ways of responding. Jonathan writes and talks plainly in sessions so concerns feel manageable rather than overwhelming.
His work centers on trauma and abuse, stress and anxiety, addictions, relationship and family worries, grief, and parenting strains.
Background and approach
He also addresses intimacy-related issues, anger, low self-esteem, career stress, depression, and coping with life changes. Additional areas include communication problems, dissociation, family of origin issues, guilt and shame, isolation, and young adult concerns. Jonathan draws from evidence-based methods like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy while also using attachment-based and mindfulness practices.
In sessions he mixes talking with simple exercises that help people notice thoughts, feelings, and bodily sensations. He aims for practical steps clients can try between meetings. He is based in California and holds CA LMFT 129217.
Sessions are offered in English and delivered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Jonathan’s approach is collaborative - he works with each person to find what fits their needs and goals. Clients who are worried about climate-related distress may find his interest in ecological concerns relevant.
He helps people name strong emotional reactions to environmental change and explore ways to reconnect with purpose and compassionate action.
Practical therapy methods you can use online
Jonathan often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) which helps people notice hard thoughts and feelings and choose actions that match their values. ACT is useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions because it focuses on what matters rather than trying to eliminate distress.He also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), a hands-on approach that looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. CBT helps with stress, worry, and patterns like avoidance by teaching simple experiments and coping skills to try between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jonathan treats the choice of methods as a collaboration and adjusts what he uses based on each person’s needs, goals, and preferences. He listens for what feels useful and suggests practical steps to try together.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules and for people who prefer meeting from home. Sessions can happen by video call or phone, and shorter check-ins are possible through live chat or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into daily life and to practice new skills in real time.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
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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
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