About Jonathan
Jonathan Rosengren is a licensed master social worker (LMSW) based in Michigan. He combines practical therapies with a warm, interactive style to help people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, grief, and relationship struggles. Jonathan focuses on everyday steps that lead to clearer choices and more dependable coping skills.
He uses methods drawn from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Attachment-Based Therapy, and client-centered work.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize real skills - tracking patterns, trying small behavior changes, and naming difficult emotions. Jonathan adapts conversations to what each person needs rather than following a rigid plan. Over nine years of clinical work have included addressing depression, trauma and abuse, parenting strain, career concerns, intimacy and body image worries, and substance issues.
He also supports people facing identity and LGBT-related challenges, abandonment or attachment issues, and the stress caregivers carry. His practice includes helping people with coping during life changes and managing compassion fatigue. Jonathan describes his style as respectful, direct, and compassionate.
He avoids stigmatizing labels and aims to build a collaborative working relationship. People meet practical goals and practice skills between sessions to see gradual improvement. To begin, Jonathan asks people to describe what matters most to them.
From there he works with each person to set short-term goals and track progress in straightforward steps.
How Jonathan’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then focus on actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and making value-driven life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks down unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and teaches practical strategies to shift them. It often helps with worry, mood problems, and coping with life transitions.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) brings clear skills for emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and better communication. Those skills can be useful when strong emotions or relationship conflicts interfere with daily life.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jonathan will collaborate with each person to choose or combine methods based on goals, preferences, and what feels effective. He adjusts plans as progress is tracked and new needs emerge.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth is limited, live chat can suit quick check-ins, and messaging supports shorter updates or ongoing work between meetings. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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