Psychotherapy
for
Healing
AND
Aliveness
through
Self-understanding,
human connection,
and imagination
Individual and couples therapy
Annapolis, MD and telehealth
Where Do You Find Yourself?
In therapy, we start where you are, with what you’re living, and we build a connection that is vital and steady enough to see you through an exploration that can be both painful and freeing.
My work is psychodynamic at its core, integrating aspects of cognitive behavioral and somatic therapies, and neuroscience-informed approaches such as EMDR.
You may struggle with self-doubt or fragile self-esteem, or have a vague, even hollow sense of yourself. Perhaps you feel absent — hidden, unknown. We make room for who you are to emerge. Through imagination and creativity, you become more fully alive, and more present with others.
Traumatic experience can disrupt your life long after the events themselves — emotionally, in your body, and in your relationships. We work at your pace, so that what happened becomes part of your story — something in the past, no longer relived in the present.
Living with fear and anxiety can leave you feeling lost, exhausted, and completely overwhelmed. We work on two levels: steadying your body and mind in the moment, and understanding where the anxiety comes from.
Depression can make you feel like you’re stuck in a fog, unable to see a way forward. Together we look at what’s weighing on you, and gradually bring back what has gone quiet: feeling, joy, energy, and connection.
Big life changes like retirement, loss, or illness can trigger anxiety and doubt, and shake your sense of self at the core. We make space to grieve what is ending and to ask, with curiosity, who you are becoming and what you want your life to be.
Struggle is a normal part of relationships, but when it spirals, it comes at the cost of vitality and intimacy.
Meet
Daniel Jonathan
Most of us live in a small corner of our inner world. Beyond it lies territory stranger, richer, and deeper than we usually allow ourselves to know.
For decades I have sat with people at the edges of what they can bear and what they can imagine. What I’ve learned is that our wounds are often doors — we close them for our own protection. But if we open them in the right setting, we can encounter parts of ourselves not yet lived: untapped resources, unexpected perspectives, and energy for a fuller life.
My training is psychoanalytic, and I bring to it a lifelong study of how people make meaning — in dreams, in art, across cultures. I’m also fascinated by how neuroscience can help us unlock the brain’s own capacity for healing.
Therapy with me is a careful, honest, often surprising exploration. And it has a clear purpose: to ease the pain that brought you here, and to help you open more fully to life.
— Daniel Jonathan
My Offerings:
Individual Therapy
For adults of any identity and background. Whatever brings you to therapy — anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, work stress, grief, or something harder to name — I’m here to help. I have particular depth of experience with the effects of trauma, one’s sense of self, and later-life transitions.
Couples Therapy
I work with all kinds of relationship issues from communication challenges to the crisis of infidelity. I also offer pre-coupling explorations to help couples make their best decisions and begin building a lasting, mutually enriching relationship.
Psychotherapeutic Adventure Travel: Transformative Journeys India.
Inner and outer expeditions within a small and closely knit therapy group, moving through the highly colorful and dramatic landscape of India. I design and guide these therapeutic journeys to combine culturally immersive experiences with deep introspection in a safe group.
More information soon!
