Jonathon Yassanye, LISW, LCSW

Jonathon Yassanye is a licensed social worker with eight years of clinical experience focused on adult mental health. He earned his graduate degree from Case Western Reserve University and developed early clinical skills during an internship at Circle Health Services, formerly The Free Clinic, in Cleveland, Ohio, where he worked with cognitive behavioral therapy, anger management training, and brief psychodynamic approaches while maintaining a person-centered therapeutic stance.

Afterward, he joined the Jewish Family Service Association of Cleveland, completing additional training in Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders and learning how to engage individuals across stages of cognitive impairment. At JFSA he also provided psychotherapy and supportive interventions for family caregivers to help address the stress and burden that often accompany caregiving roles.

Throughout his supervised clinical training he earned his social work license while expanding his knowledge of Gestalt therapy, grief and loss work, experiential methods, depression, and anxiety. He was trained by Dr. Carey Sherman to facilitate the Savvy Caregiver Program and by Dr. Elizabeth O’Toole to administer a range of psychological measures, including the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS), Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9), the Neuropsychiatric Inventory Questionnaire, Quality of Life in Alzheimer’s Disease (QOL-AD), and the Revised Scale for Caregiving Self-Efficacy. He also completed one-on-one training and supervision with Dr. Todd Pressman, PhD, and is certified in the Deconstructing Anxiety model.

Jonathon uses a collaborative, client-centered approach to co-create individualized treatment plans that may draw on cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness techniques, existential and psychodynamic perspectives, and solution-focused strategies. He works with adults on a range of concerns including stress, anxiety, depression, anger, relationship challenges, self-esteem, LGBT and sexuality matters, coping with life changes, and caregiver or aging-related issues. His broader clinical interests include traumatic brain injury, HIV/AIDS, isolation and loneliness, men’s issues, and young adult concerns. His listed credentials are LISW and LCSW - LISW meaning Licensed Independent Social Worker and LCSW meaning Licensed Clinical Social Worker - with license details OH LISW I.2103268 and CA LCSW 122885.