Jonathan has been in private psychotherapy practice for 40 years as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. While receiving a master’s degree from New York University’s School of Social Work, he externed at Payne Whitney-Cornell University Psychiatric Hospital. After graduating, he trained extensively with some of the world’s foremost mentors and institutes, including a decade with Byron Katie, who shared that he was the only one she trusted to create a work about her Work’s relationship to Zen Buddhism. Jonathan also studied Ericksonian hypnotherapy with leading adherents Stephen Gilligan, PhD, and Bill O'Hanlon, and family systems therapy at the Ackerman Family Institute and the Washington Family Institute with Jay Haley & Chloe Madanes. He mentored for a decade with Hal Stone, PhD. & Sidra Stone PhD., assisting them in their workshops at Omega and Delos Institutes. He practiced in Westport, Connecticut, Park Slope, Brooklyn, San Francisco, and now on Martha’s Vineyard and online. His training with leading Zen, Tibetan Buddhist, and Advaita Vedanta masters includes Philip Kaplea, Tony Packer, H.W.L. Poonja, Ramesh Balsekar, Jean Klein, and Anam Thubten. In a parallel career, Jonathan earned a B.A. in Cinema from New York State University, attended USC’s Graduate School of Cinema Arts, was the first writer for Family Feud, and was a full-time story analyst for Lorimar Television, while freelancing for CBS and Dustin Hoffman. He enjoys life on Martha’s Vineyard and in warm seaside beach towns. He has two wonderful daughters and a delightful stepdaughter.