I’m Jonathan Jackson. I'm a bilingual (Spanish/English) Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, educator, storyteller, and strategist with nearly two decades of experience supporting individuals, leaders, and communities through transition, growth, and repair. My work has always lived at the intersection of people and systems. Before becoming a therapist, and after over 15 years experience in the nonprofit and public sectors, I spent years as a coach and consultant, partnering with nonprofit executives, educators, and social-impact leaders navigating burnout, identity strain, and complex relational dynamics. In those spaces, I found myself doing deeply human work: holding emotional weight, facilitating vulnerable conversations, and helping people move through change. But I was doing it without the clinical grounding to fully support what was emerging. That realization led to a deliberate shift. I pursued formal training as a therapist to deepen my ability to hold that work with care, rigor, and accountability; to pair instinct with structure, and presence with practice. KARIMA was born from that integration. A space where counseling, coaching, and consulting come together. A space where personal growth, relational health, and organizational impact are not treated as separate conversations, but as connected layers of the same work. At the core of my approach is a simple idea: Everything moves at the rhythm of the stories that shape our lives. The stories we tell ourselves. The stories we tell each other. The stories influencing how we think, communicate, and act. My work helps people slow down long enough to see those patterns clearly, understand what’s shaping them, and begin to move differently. My clinical work draws from Solution-Focused Brief Therapy, Narrative Therapy, and relational modalities including the Gottman Method and Emotionally Focused Therapy. Across therapy, coaching, and consulting, I work collaboratively, treating people as experts in their own lives while helping them examine the language, stories, and relational patterns that shape how they move through the world. I’m known for a steady presence and thoughtful questions. Not because I have all the answers - but because the right questions, asked at the right time, can change how someone sees everything. Whether I’m working with an individual, partners, a family, or a leadership team, the work is the same at its core. I help people: - understand what’s shaping their thoughts and actions - reconnect with what matters - practice new ways of thinking, relating, and acting that feel both aligned and sustainable I don’t believe healing is about fixing what’s broken. I believe it’s about rhythm. About restoring alignment between who you are, what you value, and how you live. And when that alignment begins to take hold, the impact extends beyond the individual; into relationships, into organizations, and into the systems we’re all part of. When people are given the right language, tools, and space to reflect, meaningful change becomes possible. Not just for them, but for everything they’re connected to.