Individual Psychotherapy
With Daniel Jonathan
Specializations
Through Pain to Renewal
Getting Started
Healing and Becoming:
The Directions of Change in Therapy
– Your Healing –
Healing means facing directly what has caused you pain — old wounds, the patterns they left behind, the ways you learned to protect yourself that no longer serve you. This isn’t done alone. It happens inside a relationship steady enough to hold what’s difficult, and it draws on more than insight: the body remembers what the mind has tried to forget, and healing often moves through it before words catch up.
– Your Becoming –
In therapy, healing is inseparable from becoming. As you heal, your sense of self isn’t simply recovered from some earlier, better time — it expands into something new, often in ways that surprise you. And as your inner world shifts, so does your outer one: old situations, relationships, and choices can come into view from angles you couldn’t access before. That becoming can be nurtured imaginatively and creatively. We’ll do this together.
I Can Help You
Move Beyond the Effects of Traumatic Experience
Painful experience in your past can upend your life in the present — emotionally, in your thoughts, and in your relationships. This is trauma, and it doesn’t go away easily. But with the right therapeutic support, trauma doesn’t have to define your life or who you are. I can help you process those experiences, put them in the past where they belong, and reconnect with your life in the present.
Repair and Enrich your Sense of Self
You may be struggling in many ways with your sense of self. Perhaps you experience low self-esteem, indecisiveness, poor boundaries, a sense of shallowness or unreality, feelings of being unknown or even unlovable. The therapeutic relationship is a vessel for deep exploration of these experiences — to name them, understand them, and ultimately cultivate a fuller, stronger sense of who you are.
Navigate your Transitions in Later-Life
Later life brings real losses — of roles, relationships, physical capacities, and sometimes a clear sense of purpose. Retirement, an empty nest, the death of a partner, a health change — these are not small things. They can shake your sense of who you are and what your life is for. Therapy can help you navigate these changes with honesty and intention, and capture a greater sense of meaning, vitality, and discovery in this next chapter.
Navigate your Transitions in Later-Life
Life transitions entail changes not only to your lifestyle but to relationships, your sense of self, how you feel, and how you find meaning in your life. Transitions in later adulthood are challenging, to be sure, but they are also times of great potential for new meaning and engagement.
Moving Through Pain to Renewal
Robert Frost wrote that “The best way out is always through.” For over twenty years I’ve sat with people in their pain and helped them move through it. I’ve learned that we can best address pain by confronting and transforming it to something new and strong. Pain becomes not just something to survive, but a doorway to genuine renewal and self-discovery. We have to make something of painful experience — to feel it, name it, rename it, locate it meaningfully within our individual stories.
How do you name your pain?
- Disempowerment
- Contempt
- Panic
- Grief
- Depersonalization
- Numbness
- Emptiness
- Apathy
- Soul loss
- Helplessness
- Ennui
- Identity confusion
- Self-loathing
- Spiritual void
- Inadequacy
- Fear
- Alienation
- Stagnation
- Hypervigilance
- Heartache
- Deadness
- Inauthenticity
"The wound is where the light enters you"
Rumi, a 13th century Sufi poet and philosopher, knew something essential: that our wounds are not simply damage to be repaired. They are openings. Moving toward and through your pain rather than away from it reveals something that was always there — an inner landscape of surprising depth, resilience, and capacity for connection. In facing what hurts, you discover what you’re made of.
Dream yourself more fully into being
There is a version of you that hasn’t fully emerged yet — not just recovered from the past, but genuinely new. Healing isn’t only a matter of understanding; it’s also a matter of imagination and creation. The most alive and generative parts of yourself don’t always surface through insight alone. They emerge through creativity, play, and the courage to discover who you might yet become. A therapeutic relationship, at its best and at the right time, is a space where that becoming happens.
Frequently asked questions
What can I expect in an individual therapy session?
In the first session, we’ll talk about what brings you to therapy, and what you’re hoping to work on. I’ll listen closely and share my thoughts on what I’m hearing and how we’ll move forward. I’ll also explain how I work and answer any questions you have. Most importantly, this session is your chance to get a sense of what it would be like to work together.
What types of issues can individual therapy help with?
Therapy can help with a wide range of issues, including anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship challenges, life transitions, self-esteem, and more. It’s also a great tool for personal growth and self-exploration.
How long does each therapy session last?
Sessions are 45 minutes long, and I set aside 15 minutes to review and take notes.
Do you take insurance?
I’m an out-of-network provider, which means you’ll pay me directly for sessions. I’ll then give you a detailed invoice with my license and tax information, which you can submit to your insurance for out-of-network reimbursement.
Getting Started
It’s a simple, three-step process:
One: Phone Consultation
Reach out to me by email and I’ll get back to you quickly to arrange a phone consultation at no charge. You can give me an initial picture of what’s happening and what you’re hoping for. I’ll answer any initial questions you might have and, if it seems right to both of us, we’ll schedule a first session.
Two: An Initial In-Person Session
In our session, I’ll invite you to describe more fully the experiences that led to your decision to seek therapy, and tell me about the changes you hope to see from it. I’ll listen closely to you and then offer my initial understanding to be sure that I’m on track with you. I’ll tell you about how I work and I’ll answer any questions whatsoever that are on your mind. Importantly, in this session, we’ll get a fuller sense of what it would be like to work together. All this counts as a good beginning.
Three: We’re Underway
If we decide to move forward, then we’re on the path. I see people once or twice a week, sometimes more, depending on what you want and what seems best to both of us. We’ll plan to check in with each other on how we’re doing after the next few sessions.
