About Johnathan
Johnathan Lein is a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) based in Michigan with four decades of experience in counseling. He focuses on helping people who feel stuck by stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and major life transitions. He also supports people facing relationship and intimacy challenges, parenting strains, and workplace or career changes.
He draws on a client-centered way of working that starts with listening and understanding each person's goals. Sessions often include practical steps from cognitive behavioral approaches to manage thoughts and behaviors.
Background and approach
He also uses dialectical behavior techniques to teach coping skills for intense emotions. Over his career he has worked in medical social work, schools, and clinical counseling. That background gives him experience with medical providers and people navigating complex health and career systems.
He has also supported people in the LGBT community and individuals on the autism spectrum. Johnathan earned a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and Social Work in 1983 and a Master of Social Work in 2001. He completed clinical supervision and obtained an LMSW in Michigan.
His practice blends listening, practical tools, and collaborative planning to help people move forward. People who choose him can expect straightforward conversations, skill-building exercises, and a focus on goals that matter to them. Sessions aim to reduce immediate distress and build tools for handling future challenges.
How his approaches fit into online therapy
Johnathan often combines client-centered work with cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy. Client-centered work focuses on listening closely and building goals together so people feel heard and understood. Cognitive behavioral therapy breaks down unhelpful thoughts and behaviors into manageable steps and teaches practical exercises to change them. Dialectical behavior therapy emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness skills to handle intense feelings and relationship stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. He will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Then he and the client decide collaboratively which techniques to try and adjust them over time based on what helps.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth sessions that benefit from face-to-face interaction. Phone sessions can fit into a busy day or work when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging are helpful for brief check-ins, skill coaching, or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a schedule and keep skills practice consistent.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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