Jonathan Alpert is frequently consulted by major television, newspapers, magazines, and radio across the nation and internationally. With a knack for explaining complex issues in an easy-to-understand way and the courage to speak about highly sensitive issues and trends, he’s become a favorite among media outlets. A January 19, 2009 feature article in The New York Observer referred to Jonathan as “Manhattan’s most media-friendly psychotherapist” and “the media go-to-guy for psychoanalyzing the city”. He appears in the media as an expert on hard news stories, current events, lifestyle and hot-button issues, celebrities, mental health, politicians, and more. In the past year alone he has commented on Tiger Woods, the financial crisis, Bernie Madoff, cheating politicians, Facebook addiction, celebrities behaving badly, terrorism, national tragedies, and dozens of other topics.
He appears on The Today Show, NBC Nightly News, CNN, Good Morning America, ABC World News, The Joy Behar Show, Nancy Grace, and Fox & Friends. His expertise have also been featured in publications such as Men’s Health, Details, Shape, Self, Life & Style Magazine, Ladies’ Home Journal, Forbes, Seventeen, New York Magazine, Family Circle, Marie Claire, US Weekly, BBC, Elle, Financial Times of London, New York Post, New York Daily News, Politico, The Los Angeles Times, Crain’s Business Journal, and much more. In addition he comments on the financial crisis in the Oscar-winning 2010 documentary Inside Job. He also appears in My Strange Addiction on TLC. His advice column, No More Drama, reaches more than one million readers in Metro newspaper (New York, Boston, and Philadelphia) and provides practical and easy-to-implement tips on dealing with sex, dating, relationships, lifestyle issues, and mental health. Think: Dr. Ruth meets Dear Abby and throw some serious clinical edge into the mix and you have his column. He also pens a column for X17 called Hollywood Breakdown where he weighs in on the latest celebrity drama.