Jonathan Ugalde
Jon believes life holds an immeasurable amount of lessons to be learned through our experience and interactions with others. Jon utilizes a holistic, eclectic, and experiential approach to mental health. Jon highlights the importance of balancing all eight dimensions of wellness (emotional, spiritual, intellectual, physical, environmental, financial, occupational, and social) while introducing experiential challenges to highlight lessons and develop mastery of appropriate skills. Jon highlights what needs and desires are motivating in the moment while developing longer term motivation from the development of autonomy of self, competence of skill, and relatedness to others. Jon practices with an open, honest, and reflective counseling style that pushes clients to work to be their best and true selves through collaborative discussion, practice, and accountability.
Jon is a trauma informed, person-centered, and systemic therapist believing in the power our experiences and relationships have on us. Jon’s clinical experience has been with those who are going through “Life’s Transitions” including those who are struggling in adolescence due to substance use or another mental health concern, college students whose mental health inhibits their success, parents working to develop their parenting skills, identity concerns (gender, sexuality, etc.), and those who are transitioning from active addiction and substance abuse to recovery and remission. Jon has additional clinical experience working with individual dealing with depression, anxiety, communication issues, intellectual disabilities, learning disabilities, and more.
Skills and Expertise
Addiction
Adjusting to Change / Life Transitions
Adjustment to College
Adult
Aggression and Violence
Agoraphobia
Alcohol Use
Anger Management
Anxiety
Asperger's Syndrome
Attention Deficit (ADHD)
Behavioral Issues
Bipolar Disorder
Blended Family Issues
Body Image
Breakups
Bullying
Career Counseling
Caregiver Issues or Stress
Child or Adolescent
college age
Commitment Issues
Communication Problems
Control Issues
Coping Mechanisms
Cyclothymia
Depression
Dissociation
Dissociative Disorders
Drug Use
Dual Diagnosis
Emotional Intelligence
Emptiness
Family Conflict
Family of Origin Issues
Fear
Gay Issues
grief
Guilt
Identity Issues
Impulse Control Disorders
Inadequacy
Individuation
Infidelity and Affair Recovery
Intellectual Disability
Irritability
Isolation
Jealousy
LGBTQ
Life Coaching
Life Purpose
Loss
Loss or Grief
Mens Issues and Problems
Mindfulness based therapy
Mood Disorders
Navigating Identity in Relationships
Obsessions and Compulsions
Obsessive-Compulsive (OCD)
Oppositional Defiance
Panic
Parenting
Peer Relationships
Relationship Issues
Self Esteem
Self-Harming
Single Parenting Issues
Skills Groups
Stress
Substance Use
teen
Thinking Disorders
Transgender Issues
Trauma and PTSD
Trauma
Treatment Orientation
Acceptance Commitment Therapy
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
Couple and Family Systems Therapy
Dialectical Behavior Therapy
Eclectic
Ecotherapy/Nature-based
Experiential Therapy
Expressive Arts Therapy
Family Systems Therapy
Harm Reduction
holistic health
Humanistic
Motivational Interviewing
Reality therapy
Telehealth-based
Writing
Modality
Individuals
Group
Family
Couples
Children