About Jonathan
Jonathan Marsh is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) based in New York. He brings seven years of experience helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and challenges tied to identity and relationships. He presents as approachable and straightforward, aiming to make the first step toward therapy less intimidating for someone worried or uncertain.
In sessions he focuses on building an open, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk about what matters most to them.
Background and approach
He listens for practical patterns and helps people set small, doable goals. Jonathan emphasizes collaboration - clients and therapist work together to decide which steps make sense next. He has worked with concerns common to LGBTQ people, as well as issues like self-esteem, motivation, intimacy-related problems, grief, and sleeping difficulties.
He also supports people facing addiction, trauma and abuse, panic, and mood-related challenges. Phobias are listed among his areas of focus when relevant to a client's goals. Jonathan draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques and tailors sessions to each person.
He aims to translate clinical ideas into plain language and everyday actions that fit a client’s life. Sessions typically include talking, planning small experiments, and reviewing what did or didn’t help. People who choose him usually want practical tools and a steady listener to help them through life changes.
He emphasizes steady progress rather than overnight fixes and offers multiple formats to meet different needs.
How evidence-based approaches translate online
Jonathan uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One common approach emphasizes identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments to reduce anxiety and panic. This method helps people notice thinking patterns and try small behavior changes to see what improves symptoms.Another frequently used approach concentrates on building skills for emotion regulation and coping. It teaches short tools for managing intense feelings, improving sleep, and handling urges related to addictions or impulsivity. These skills are taught step by step and practiced between sessions so progress is steady and measurable.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, needs, and preferences, and together they’ll decide which techniques to try first. Adjustments are made along the way based on what is working for the client.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and to try different formats as needs change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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