In depth Christian Counseling
George Hartwell M.Sc. - registered Christian psychotherapist.
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Email: ghartwell at rogers.com. Phone: (416) 939-0544
Do you find it hard to change your life?
I know from personal experience. It took almost 40 years for me to recognize that I was stuck in People-Pleasing
I have been on a healing journey toward fuller inner healing and recovery from People-Pleasing. Along the way I completed a Masters in clinical psychology, learned from several mentors and, at last, discovered an evidence-based way of creating lasting and real personal change. I am a seasoned veteran of Christian counseling now after 40 years experience.
If you are seeking a healing path that integrates both psychological insight and Christian faith in order to gain the experience deep and lasting transformation, allow me to be your guide.
My clients who have experienced other counsellors notice a significant difference in my style and many have stuck it out to gain the experience of life transformation. One client, who was suppressed within a narcissistic family system, has escaped that and gained freedom and quiet confidence to be herself and to reach out to support others.
As a Registered Christian Psychotherapist with over 40 years of experience, I blend evidence-based Christian counseling with prayer, psychological wisdom, and trauma-informed care. Whether you're facing emotional pain, spiritual disconnection, or difficult life transitions, I will be there for you. I take great joy in seeing others gain healing.
🟨 What Makes HealMyLife Different?
✅ Christian Counseling rooted in Psychology and spiritual insight
✅ Christian psychotherapy backed by decades of clinical experience
✅ Breakthroughs in Christian therapy using evidence-based methods
✅ A safe space for healing past trauma and developing authentic identity
✅ A blend of Christian therapy and psychologically sound professional therapy.
🟧 Start Your Healing Journey Today
If you're struggling and looking for a faith-based approach to healing, I offer compassionate care that gets to the root of your pain — not just the symptoms.
📞 Call (416) 939-0544 to schedule your first session.
📧 Email: [email protected]
💻 Online Christian counseling across Canada and the USA available via Zoom, Skype, or phone.
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🟫 Areas of Focus
I specialize in helping people address a wide range of emotional, relational, and spiritual concerns through in-depth Christian counseling and psychotherapy. To learn more about my treatment methods, risks, benefits and alternatives check out Christian counselling/counseling.
Here are links to the key areas I work with:
💔 Relationship & Personality Patterns
Avoidant Personality and Silent Divorce
People-Pleasing (Understanding, core beliefs, and healing)
Codependent, Caretaker, Helper Dynamics
Love Addiction
🧠 Emotional & Mental Health
Depression Therapy / Christian Psychotherapy
PTSD – Healing Traumatic Memories
Nervous Breakdown and Mid-Life Crisis
Emptiness – Feeling Something is Missing
🛠 Therapy Methods & Inner Work
EMDR – Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
Internal Family Systems and the Inner Critic
Deliverance from Evil
🟦 Why Choose Christian Therapy with George Hartwell?
⚡ Efficient Progress: Focused sessions that cut through surface issues
💬 Effective Communication: A safe space where you're heard and understood
✝️ Faith-Based Integration: Christian inner healing with spiritual authority
🧠 Christian therapy that gets to the root: Heal trauma, transform beliefs, find your true self
🛠 My Therapy Methods Include
I combine trusted psychological tools with spiritual guidance to provide Christian therapy that gets to the root of your struggles. My methods are grounded in experience, prayer, and clinical insight.
🙏 Prayer-Based Christian Therapy
Healing Prayer Therapy
Listening Prayer Therapy
Gentle Deliverance
🧠 Evidence-Based Christian Psychotherapy
EMDR Christian Therapist Methods
Emotionally Focused Therapy – Christian Perspective
🌱 Deep Identity and Trauma Healing
Christian Trauma Therapy for Lasting Healing
Identity Transformation through Christian Transformation Therapy
🟩 The Depth of Work This Therapy Addresses
Many people seek this form of therapy when they feel their struggles go beyond ordinary stress or relationship problems. They may experience patterns that seem unusually persistent, as if something deeper is holding them in place despite their efforts to change. In psychological terms, these patterns may come from unresolved memories, family conditioning, or unconscious beliefs. In spiritual terms, some clients describe them as strongholds, negative influences, or burdens that seem to have taken root in their life.
My approach to therapy allows us to look carefully at these deeper levels rather than only working on the surface. This may include exploring emotional wounds, long-standing personality patterns, and, when appropriate to the client’s beliefs, the possibility that spiritual factors are connected to emotional distress.
In some cases, clients feel that certain habits, impulses, or emotional states seem stronger than their conscious will. They may describe feeling driven, blocked, or weighed down in ways that do not fully make sense psychologically alone. When a client understands their experience in spiritual terms, therapy can include prayer-based methods that are used in a careful and structured way within the counseling process.
For clients who request a Christian approach, I sometimes use forms of therapeutic listening prayer, in which the person reflects on memories, emotional experiences, or life events while listening for God's truth. The purpose of this work is to process emotional core beliefs, change one's perspective, and regain a sense of peace, clarity, and personal identity.
Some clients understand their struggles as involving spiritual strongholds, oppressive influences, or patterns that seemed to enter their life during times of stress, trauma, or major life events. When this is part of the client’s own belief system, prayer is used to help the person let go of these influences and restore a greater sense of freedom and stability.
This kind of work is always done with care and respect for the client’s psychological health and personal beliefs. It is not presented as a quick solution, and outcomes cannot be guaranteed. The goal is to help the person become more grounded, emotionally free, and spiritually at peace so that they can live with greater clarity, strength, and balance.
🟨 The Cost of Inaction
Not addressing your emotional pain can lead to:
* Increased stress and emotional distress
* Strained relationships with your spouse and children
* Loss of hope, identity confusion, or spiritual disconnection
* Anxiety, burnout, panic attacks, or a nervous breakdown
You don’t have to stay stuck. Christian counseling offers a proven path to spiritual and emotional renewal.
🟧 What to Expect
My therapy helps you move: From painful symptoms → to healing past trauma
From limiting beliefs → to transforming core beliefs
From a false self → to developing an authentic identity
You will experience how Christian counselling helps not only emotionally, but spiritually. This is therapy rooted in grace and truth.
🟦 About George Hartwell, M.Sc.
I hold a Master's in Clinical Psychology from the University of Calgary and am a Registered Psychotherapist (#006700) with the Ontario College of Registered Psychotherapists. I bring over 40 years of experience in Christian emotional healing, grounded in the teachings of Jesus.
Founder of the Life Transformation Academy, providing courses on Life Transformation Therapy. Courses reveal my professional insights and my prayerful methods so you can benefit from them.
🟩 Fees and Insurance
💰 Fee: $160/hour 💳 Payment via e-transfer or PayPal
🧾 Receipts provided for insurance reimbursement (psychotherapy services)
Just a quick note about scheduling:
If an appointment needs to be cancelled or moved with less than 24 hours’ notice, there is an $80 rescheduling fee. I appreciate your understanding—this helps keep appointment times open and consistent for everyone.
🟨 Let’s Begin Your Healing Journey
✅ Sessions available by Zoom, phone, or FaceTime
📞 Call (416) 939-0544 to book your Christian therapy session today.
📧 Email: [email protected]
🟩 Fees and Insurance
💰 Fee: $160/hour 💳 Payment via e-transfer or PayPal
🧾 Receipts provided for insurance reimbursement (psychotherapy services)
Just a quick note about scheduling:
If an appointment needs to be cancelled or moved with less than 24 hours’ notice, there is an $80 rescheduling fee. I appreciate your understanding—this helps keep appointment times open and consistent for everyone.
🟨 Let’s Begin Your Healing Journey
✅ Sessions available by Zoom, phone, or FaceTime
📞 Call (416) 939-0544 to book your Christian therapy session today.
📧 Email: [email protected]
FAQ Section
❓What is Christian counseling?
Christian counseling integrates God's love and truth with proven psychological methods. It addresses both emotional and spiritual struggles to support deep healing and transformation.
❓What makes Christian psychotherapy different from secular therapy?
Christian psychotherapy acknowledges the spiritual dimension of life and healing. It invites God into the process, seeks truth-based identity, and combines grace, love, and professional care.
❓How does Christian counseling help with emotional healing?
It helps uncover root wounds and limiting beliefs, bringing in God’s truth and love through prayer and guided self-awareness. This brings emotional freedom and spiritual renewal.
❓Do you offer online Christian counseling in Canada and the USA?
Yes! Sessions are available via Zoom, phone, or FaceTime for clients across Canada and the USA. These are effective and fully confidential.
❓What therapy methods do you use in Christian counseling?
I use EMDR, Internal Family Systems, Listening Prayer Therapy, and Christian trauma healing techniques — all guided by spiritual insight and client needs.
❓Can Christian therapy really get to the root of my problems?
Absolutely. My approach focuses on Christian therapy that gets to the root, helping heal childhood wounds, transform core beliefs, and restore your authentic identity.
❓What is healing prayer therapy?
Healing prayer therapy, or Christian Listening Prayer therapy, invites Jesus into painful memories or listens for God's truth to deal with core beliefs. Clients often report significant peace and breakthrough as Jesus brings His presence and truth to past trauma.
❓How long does it take to see results?
Many clients experience insight and relief within the first few sessions. However, deep, permanent changes occur over a longer time as we engage with both the emotional and spiritual aspects of your story.
I am George Hartwell, a Registered Psychotherapist with over 40 years of experience in Christian counseling.
I have been mentored by spiritual leaders, including Agnes Sanford, John and Paula Sandford, Leanne Payne, and Ed Smith—all pioneers in Christian inner healing.
Phone or text: (416) 939-0544
Working at the Level of Emotional and Spiritual StrongholdsMany people seek this kind of therapy when they feel that their problems are not only emotional or relational, but involve deeper patterns that seem unusually difficult to change. These patterns may appear as repeated behaviors, powerful impulses, chronic conflict, or a sense of being weighed down by something that does not fully make sense at a purely psychological level.
In my work, we look at problems from both psychological and spiritual perspectives when the client wishes to do so. Some clients understand their struggles in terms of strongholds, meaning patterns that have become established in the personality through past experiences, trauma, family dynamics, or significant life events. In some cases, clients also believe that negative spiritual influences may have become connected to these patterns, especially during times of stress, loss, illness, or emotional vulnerability and that Christian deliverance is needed.
Because of this, therapy may include careful exploration of when a problem first appeared, what was happening in the person’s life at the time, and what emotional or spiritual factors may have been involved. Clients sometimes notice that certain difficulties began after major events such as the death of someone close, periods of heavy stress, substance use, or situations where personal boundaries were weakened. In their own understanding, these experiences may feel as if something entered their life that continued to affect them afterward, and protection from spiritual transference is needed.
When a client holds a Christian belief system and requests it, therapy may include forms of therapeutic prayer used within the counseling process. One form of this work involves guided listening prayer in which the person reflects on a memory or life situation while inviting the presence of Jesus into the experience. The purpose of this prayer is to deal with core beliefs, release what feels attached to them, and regain a sense of peace, clarity, and personal authority.
Some clients describe their struggles in terms of spiritual oppression, strongholds, or influences that seem to have attached to their life and continued to affect their thoughts, emotions, or behaviour. When this is part of the client’s own understanding, prayer may help the person let go of these burdens and strengthen their sense of identity, responsibility, and spiritual freedom. To be clear, although this is a form of deliverance, it does not share the methods and perspectives of Christian deliverance ministries.
This work is always approached carefully, professionally, and within the client’s belief system. It is not based on forcing interpretations, and it is not a quick or dramatic solution. The goal is to help the person become more grounded, emotionally stable, and spiritually at peace, so they are less controlled by past experiences, unhealthy patterns, or influences they have carried for a long time.
Each person’s situation is unique, and results cannot be guaranteed. Therapy is a process of careful exploration and healing at the level of the mind, the heart, and the human spirit.
In my work, we look at problems from both psychological and spiritual perspectives when the client wishes to do so. Some clients understand their struggles in terms of strongholds, meaning patterns that have become established in the personality through past experiences, trauma, family dynamics, or significant life events. In some cases, clients also believe that negative spiritual influences may have become connected to these patterns, especially during times of stress, loss, illness, or emotional vulnerability and that Christian deliverance is needed.
Because of this, therapy may include careful exploration of when a problem first appeared, what was happening in the person’s life at the time, and what emotional or spiritual factors may have been involved. Clients sometimes notice that certain difficulties began after major events such as the death of someone close, periods of heavy stress, substance use, or situations where personal boundaries were weakened. In their own understanding, these experiences may feel as if something entered their life that continued to affect them afterward, and protection from spiritual transference is needed.
When a client holds a Christian belief system and requests it, therapy may include forms of therapeutic prayer used within the counseling process. One form of this work involves guided listening prayer in which the person reflects on a memory or life situation while inviting the presence of Jesus into the experience. The purpose of this prayer is to deal with core beliefs, release what feels attached to them, and regain a sense of peace, clarity, and personal authority.
Some clients describe their struggles in terms of spiritual oppression, strongholds, or influences that seem to have attached to their life and continued to affect their thoughts, emotions, or behaviour. When this is part of the client’s own understanding, prayer may help the person let go of these burdens and strengthen their sense of identity, responsibility, and spiritual freedom. To be clear, although this is a form of deliverance, it does not share the methods and perspectives of Christian deliverance ministries.
This work is always approached carefully, professionally, and within the client’s belief system. It is not based on forcing interpretations, and it is not a quick or dramatic solution. The goal is to help the person become more grounded, emotionally stable, and spiritually at peace, so they are less controlled by past experiences, unhealthy patterns, or influences they have carried for a long time.
Each person’s situation is unique, and results cannot be guaranteed. Therapy is a process of careful exploration and healing at the level of the mind, the heart, and the human spirit.
Conditions and Issues:
Avoidant Personality Disorder (APD) and Silent Divorce: Healing from Avoidant Personality Disorder and Silent Divorce.
People Pleasing: The harm caused by, root causes and healing of a People-Pleasing Personality.
Emptiness, empty feeling, Something is Missing: Understanding the cause and path to healing of the feeling of Emptiness.
Deliverance from Evil: Deliverance ministry through healing of trauma with a Christian Psychotherapist.
Codependent: Understanding and therapy for Codependency. Gain a Clear Perspective on Codependent Behaviors
Christian perspective on the Psychopath or sociopath: Understanding prospects for therapy with Personality Disorders. Understanding the Psychopath and other Personality Personalities.
Nervous Breakdown and Mid-Life Crisis: What is a Nervous Breakdown or mid-life crisis? What therapy is appropriate for this? How to transform a painful identity crises into a growth experience.
Depression Therapy: Understanding and Healing of Depression - finding hope and renewal in dark times.
Avoidant Personality Disorder (APD) and Silent Divorce: Healing from Avoidant Personality Disorder and Silent Divorce.
People Pleasing: The harm caused by, root causes and healing of a People-Pleasing Personality.
Emptiness, empty feeling, Something is Missing: Understanding the cause and path to healing of the feeling of Emptiness.
Deliverance from Evil: Deliverance ministry through healing of trauma with a Christian Psychotherapist.
Codependent: Understanding and therapy for Codependency. Gain a Clear Perspective on Codependent Behaviors
Christian perspective on the Psychopath or sociopath: Understanding prospects for therapy with Personality Disorders. Understanding the Psychopath and other Personality Personalities.
Nervous Breakdown and Mid-Life Crisis: What is a Nervous Breakdown or mid-life crisis? What therapy is appropriate for this? How to transform a painful identity crises into a growth experience.
Depression Therapy: Understanding and Healing of Depression - finding hope and renewal in dark times.
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