What is Peak Psychotherapy?
When you choose Peak Psychotherapy you are choosing an effective way of achieving lasting changes in your life because a long and healthy life appeals to you.
You are choosing a method that aligns with research on achieving permanent change in core issues so that you gain maximum change in the least possible time. You decided not to waste time on counselling with a surface analysis and get to the root of things in your life.
Peak Psychotherapy is my synthesis of EMDR, Christian Inner Healing, Transactional Analysis and emotionally-focused therapy in a highly effective treatment. My practice of Peak Psychotherapy is evidence-based practice because it is aligned with the Psychological research on Memory Reconsolidation. Memory Reconsolidation proved that permanent change in emotional learning is possible and is permanent when one follows the right steps to unlock the Emotional Brain. I am qualified to provide this synthesis because I have professional training and years of experience in making use of these tools.
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What is the focus of Peak Psychotherapy?
The focus of Peak Psychotherapy is transforming core beliefs, healing significant memories and traumas so as to reduce anxiety and depression, discovering a healthier way of living that allows one to enter loving relationships with greater ease and achieve enhanced performance in one's endeavours.
Overview of my Peak Psychotherapy Process:
How does Peak Psychotherapy make use of each component?
You are choosing a method that aligns with research on achieving permanent change in core issues so that you gain maximum change in the least possible time. You decided not to waste time on counselling with a surface analysis and get to the root of things in your life.
Peak Psychotherapy is my synthesis of EMDR, Christian Inner Healing, Transactional Analysis and emotionally-focused therapy in a highly effective treatment. My practice of Peak Psychotherapy is evidence-based practice because it is aligned with the Psychological research on Memory Reconsolidation. Memory Reconsolidation proved that permanent change in emotional learning is possible and is permanent when one follows the right steps to unlock the Emotional Brain. I am qualified to provide this synthesis because I have professional training and years of experience in making use of these tools.
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What is the focus of Peak Psychotherapy?
The focus of Peak Psychotherapy is transforming core beliefs, healing significant memories and traumas so as to reduce anxiety and depression, discovering a healthier way of living that allows one to enter loving relationships with greater ease and achieve enhanced performance in one's endeavours.
Overview of my Peak Psychotherapy Process:
How does Peak Psychotherapy make use of each component?
- EMDR - Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing - provides a proven system for processing traumatic memories.
- Christian Listening Prayer Therapy is a prayerful system for resolving traumatic memories and works hand-in-hand with EMDR. After years of experience using Christian inner healing in my professional practice I chose the most effective system, modified it to align with principles I had learned, and made it my own.
- Journey work - An emotionally-focused exploration of current active feelings that provides emotional clarity and helps us discover targets for therapy. Research shows that therapists that pay attention to feelings produce the changes people are looking for. This system encourages you to experience your feelings rather than suppressing them.
- Transactional analysis - Eric Berne's system for understanding personality provides clarity as to the goals of psychotherapy especially in regard to healing and freeing the Inner Child. My book, Heal My Inner Child, which is in the final draft stages, reveals why healing and freeing our Inner Child is helpful for all of us to achieve vibrant mental health.
- Memory Reconsolidation - Psychological research regarding changing deeply stored emotional learning - provides evidence-based principles for psychotherapy. Memory reconsolidation provides guidance as to how to apply EMDR and Christian Listening Prayer Therapy most efficiently to save clients time and money. Because this research is new and unknown, few psychotherapists guide their practice by these principles. Peak Psychotherapy does.
Want to benefit from Peak Psychotherapy?
Phone or text (416) 939-0544 to schedule an initial session with George Hartwell M.Sc. EMDR-trained therapist and registered psychotherapist with over 40 years experience.
Professional fee per hour session is $160.00 (2022 - subject to change). There is a fee for late cancelled appointments. Payment is due at the end of your appointment. Payment by e-transfers or PayPal. A receipt is issued.
Insurance for registered psychotherapy, psychotherapist is accessed by you submitting the receipt.
Phone or text (416) 939-0544 to schedule an initial session with George Hartwell M.Sc. EMDR-trained therapist and registered psychotherapist with over 40 years experience.
Professional fee per hour session is $160.00 (2022 - subject to change). There is a fee for late cancelled appointments. Payment is due at the end of your appointment. Payment by e-transfers or PayPal. A receipt is issued.
Insurance for registered psychotherapy, psychotherapist is accessed by you submitting the receipt.
More details about Peak Psychotherapy
1. The Role of EMDR in Peak Psychotherapy?
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) has proven effectiveness in dealing with traumas and other significant memories. It was tested and proven effective for the healing of memories especially PTSD and trauma See the page on Stress and Trauma Processing.
EMDR is one way to strengthen the core person so they achieve greater calm and resilience and can handle facing, even if briefly, the painful memories in their Emotional Brain. This can be done outside therapy sessions by making daily use of bilateral music or other form of bilateral stimulation. Look in YouTube for Bilateral Music under such authors as Destined Dynamics or Jorge Henderson Collazo.
EMDR is effective for more than healing memories and can be used when the main focus is a person's feelings.
EMDR also has these functions:
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) has proven effectiveness in dealing with traumas and other significant memories. It was tested and proven effective for the healing of memories especially PTSD and trauma See the page on Stress and Trauma Processing.
EMDR is one way to strengthen the core person so they achieve greater calm and resilience and can handle facing, even if briefly, the painful memories in their Emotional Brain. This can be done outside therapy sessions by making daily use of bilateral music or other form of bilateral stimulation. Look in YouTube for Bilateral Music under such authors as Destined Dynamics or Jorge Henderson Collazo.
EMDR is effective for more than healing memories and can be used when the main focus is a person's feelings.
EMDR also has these functions:
- For relaxation,
- To help process and store learning,
- To enhance the amount of deep precessing time in one's day.
- To help fall asleep and enhance quality of sleep.
- In conjunction with Christian Listening Prayer it enhances access to spiritual resources. It helps the listening process.
2. What is the Role of Listening Prayer in Peak Psychotherapy?
Listening Prayer is a method of Christian Inner Healing that aligns well with the evidenced-based principles and procedures of Memory Reconsolidation. It has a track record of producing significant change that last and doing so quickly.
Listening Prayer therapy enhances EMDR and EMDR enhances Listening Prayer Therapy. The two work together with lovely synergy.
Listening Prayer therapy enhances EMDR and EMDR enhances Listening Prayer Therapy. The two work together with lovely synergy.
What else Defines Peak Psychotherapy?
Peak Psychotherapy can takes a longer term approach if the objective is thorough and complete psychotherapy that lasts a life-time. In other words if one wants to work toward a total life reset.
My vision is people who know they need to persist in the change process until they have achieved a significant complete shift out of reactive, painful dysfunctional patterns and into a more satisfying and authentic life style and personality that is able to live in the present, contribute toward a life-giving love relationship and enjoy increased creativity, productivity and physical achievement.
If the goal is thorough and complete therapy then one might have a schedule of one session every two weeks.
Some, who are motivated to reduce panic, anxiety and stress as soon as possible, will chose weekly sessions and complete a lot of homework between sessions. They will research topics, use bilateral music and even do EMDR and Listening Prayer on their own. One women who was thus motivated worked with a weekly session and achieved a significant shift after 9 months, then scaled back to a monthly session after that.
A long-term focus may involve a more complete history and thorough healing of events through one's developmental history. This involves completion of some questionnaires and feedback reports to track progress. Let's focus on the longer time frame rather than seeking short-term results.
Memory Reconsolidation principles underlies the choice of Peak Psychotherapy components. The criterion is full and complete emotional healing that lasts long term . The use of EMDR, Listening Prayer, Journey work and Memory Reconsolidation will result in stable long term life transformation. That is because the healing of key memories and change of the embedded beliefs, attitudes and perspectives is known to be permanent when these methods are used correctly by a skilled, trained and experienced professional psychotherapist.
My vision is people who know they need to persist in the change process until they have achieved a significant complete shift out of reactive, painful dysfunctional patterns and into a more satisfying and authentic life style and personality that is able to live in the present, contribute toward a life-giving love relationship and enjoy increased creativity, productivity and physical achievement.
If the goal is thorough and complete therapy then one might have a schedule of one session every two weeks.
Some, who are motivated to reduce panic, anxiety and stress as soon as possible, will chose weekly sessions and complete a lot of homework between sessions. They will research topics, use bilateral music and even do EMDR and Listening Prayer on their own. One women who was thus motivated worked with a weekly session and achieved a significant shift after 9 months, then scaled back to a monthly session after that.
A long-term focus may involve a more complete history and thorough healing of events through one's developmental history. This involves completion of some questionnaires and feedback reports to track progress. Let's focus on the longer time frame rather than seeking short-term results.
Memory Reconsolidation principles underlies the choice of Peak Psychotherapy components. The criterion is full and complete emotional healing that lasts long term . The use of EMDR, Listening Prayer, Journey work and Memory Reconsolidation will result in stable long term life transformation. That is because the healing of key memories and change of the embedded beliefs, attitudes and perspectives is known to be permanent when these methods are used correctly by a skilled, trained and experienced professional psychotherapist.
What Outcomes can we expect from Peak Psychotherapy?
1. One outcome is that changes in memories, core beliefs and perspectives is permanent. Once a memory is healed or an issues is healed it stays healed. That requires we be systematic and thorough so that all aspects have been dealt with.
2. A second expected outcome involves a significant shift of one's old personality pattern into a more authentic identity. The new authentic identity involves a healthier balance and cooperation among The Adult, Parent and Child ego states that Eric Berne identified in Transactional Analysis.
Long-term outcomes outcomes for your personality include:
Additional Outcomes may be:
You also may find yourself :
Overall you will experience lower levels of anxiety and depression in your life and increasing levels peace, contentment and joy.
2. A second expected outcome involves a significant shift of one's old personality pattern into a more authentic identity. The new authentic identity involves a healthier balance and cooperation among The Adult, Parent and Child ego states that Eric Berne identified in Transactional Analysis.
Long-term outcomes outcomes for your personality include:
- greater comfort with yourself,
- consolidation of a clearer sense of your own identity,
- discovery of your own voice,
- increased social recognition and authority,
- and the stabilizing of your family network so there is less emotionality and game-playing.
Additional Outcomes may be:
- enhanced intimacy in your love relationships,
- greater ability to be present in the moment (mindfulness).
- more creativity at work and
- better access to your intuition or gut instincts for decisions.
You also may find yourself :
- more aware of your own feelings and more sensitive to those of others others,
- more open to life, love and play,
- less anxiety and depression,
- greater stability in an Adult objective position and greater resistance to emotional triggers.
Overall you will experience lower levels of anxiety and depression in your life and increasing levels peace, contentment and joy.
Peak Psychotherapy makes systematic use of EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) to:
- generating peak learning and peak performance,
- treating symptoms of stress, trauma and PTSD (Post traumatic stress disorder)
- to heal our emotional personal trigger points,
- to bring healing to our own personal blocks to intimacy and
- to deal with core belief issues and relationship traumas,
- EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) as a resource for healing painful childhood memories and for reducing severe anxiety
How do I Start Peak Psychotherapy?
Phone (416) 939-0544 to schedule an initial session with George
Professional fee per hour session is $160.00 (2022 - subject to change).
There is a fee for late cancelled appointments.
Payment is due at the end of your appointment.
Payment by e-transfers or PayPal.
A receipt is issued indicating the service is psychotherapy from a registered psychotherapist.
I encourage a persistent long-term plan doing a systematic scan of your life to heal every significant trauma and heal any underlying attachment issues and adding emotional resources.
There is a fee for late cancelled appointments.
Payment is due at the end of your appointment.
Payment by e-transfers or PayPal.
A receipt is issued indicating the service is psychotherapy from a registered psychotherapist.
I encourage a persistent long-term plan doing a systematic scan of your life to heal every significant trauma and heal any underlying attachment issues and adding emotional resources.