Jonathan Nelson III
Change-focused licensed social worker
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Jonathan
Jonathan Nelson III is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who invites people to face what they have been avoiding. He recognizes how hard it can be to ask for help and what it feels like to hide pain behind a mask. He talks plainly about making a decision to engage with life instead of drifting on autopilot.
His tone is direct but compassionate, aimed at someone who wants real change but feels stuck.
Background and approach
He uses practical talk and straightforward techniques in sessions. He helps people notice unhelpful habits and take small steps toward different choices. Jonathan draws on methods that teach new ways to respond to difficult thoughts and feelings, not just push them away.
His background includes clinical administration, supervision, mentoring, and direct psychotherapy. He has worked in nonprofit settings, correctional facilities, independent practice, and with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
That breadth of experience informs how he adapts tools to fit each person’s life. Jonathan has practiced for 12 years and holds Florida licensure as LCSW with license number FL LCSW SW12912. He offers sessions in English and provides several online formats for meeting.
Costs vary depending on location and a subscription model is used that can be canceled at any time. To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and then schedules a session. Jonathan focuses on helping people make the first move toward change and supports them as they build new patterns over time.
How his approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck by them. It emphasizes values and small, committed actions to move toward a more meaningful life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thought and behavior patterns and practicing alternatives that reduce distress and improve daily functioning. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's experience, offering empathy and validation while the person leads the pace and direction of work.Jonathan treats finding the right approach as a team effort. He will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked before. Together they pick or blend methods that match the person's needs and adjust as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which support flexible scheduling and ongoing check-ins. These options make it easier to fit talks into a busy life and to practice new skills between sessions. The practical focus of his approaches fits well with remote work, since exercises and brief check-ins can be completed from home or on the go.
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.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
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
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
Next step
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