With the right therapist and proven methods you can reach these goals:
1. Increased capacity to enjoy life.
2. Increased capacity to clear up emotional memories from your day.
3. Enhanced capacity to be alert and fresh.
4. Enhanced capacity to learn new material.
5. Enhanced emotional stability.
6. Enhanced capacity to maintain intimate relationships.
7. Increased inner peace and calm

Am I your Ideal Therapist?

Seven Ways that I work as a therapist
1. I Save time and money by getting right down to work without a long assessment phase. My plan is to make a difference at every session.

2. Although I do listen to my clients, it is listening and dialogue with a purpose. I provide feedback and share my insights with you. I may even do some teaching at this point. You should gain insight at every session.

3. Another purpose of my active listening and dialogue with you is to find a focus for each session. As we agree on a focus then I provide an intervention to bring changes to your life. When appropriate I plan for emotional healing in each and every session.

4. In my Therapy with Christians, every session begins with prayer and prayer therapy is used. Prayer interventions include the method I call  listening prayer therapy which is aligned with the psychological research on memory reconsolidation.

5. I am an expert on personality change and use the term "positive nervous breakdown" for those life transitions that are often a very painful 'mid-life crisis.' I have been a guide for people pleasers and the Caretaker (Super-Responsible) personality types as the enter the time when they must shed this pattern. This involves healing and freeing of the Inner Child.

6. I provide couple therapy - emotionally focused couple therapy. However, I advocate that this always be combined with individual psychotherapy because life transformation work is often the key to understanding and resolving marital issues.

7. If you are not ready for in-depth emotional healing of root issues, I can guarantee that I provide excellent support for those who need support and wise guidance from a seasoned veteran in the mental health field. I will be there for you.

Your Guide on the Journey

My primary job as the therapist is to guide your life journey. To help identify and slay the dragons on your path.  My plan is that you experience successful life transitions and gain the capacity for an enhanced life.

To arrive at permanent resolution of core issues: 

1. 1. As an experienced psychotherapist, I listen and talk with you  to identify the core issues which will be the primary targets of therapy.
2. 2. Using a proprietary combination of Psychotherapy tools that permanently resolve your core beliefs and heal core emotional wounds so that you can feel peace and relief. 

My insights derive from the psychology of personality including Transactional Analysis and the John and Paula Sandford character types. Of course, my years of experience in mental health and psychological assessment will allow us to save time in finding core issues whether in couple work or individual psychotherapy.
I hold a Masters degree in clinical Psychology, Department of Educational Psychology at University of Calgary, which  followed four years practical experience with psychological assessment and mental health treatment at the psychiatric facility serving southern Alberta.
​I am a Registered Psychotherapist who provides intensive therapy using EMDR, Listening Prayer Therapy and  emotionally-focused therapy to achieve freedom from symptoms of PTSD, panic disorder, social anxiety, and all related issues. I have spent years in honing the  skills and insights that make mine a very successful approach.
Focus. The focus is on transforming core beliefs, healing significant memories and traumas so as to reduce anxiety and depression, producing a healthier way of living so that you can enjoy loving relationships and achieve enhanced performance.  

Cost and Contact: Professional fees for sessions is $120 per hour session on phone. Zoom or Skype. For clients in USA that is $120 USD per hour and for clients in Canada it is $120 CDN per hour. No taxes added.

I would be delighted to be a guide on your journey toward deep emotional healing, and significant personality transformation so that you are ready for a fuller life.

I provide individual therapy using Peak Psychotherapy which  uses powerful methods to transform core issues and personality patterns. The same methods are helpful in couple therapy focused on bonding through emotionally-focused communication development.
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Peak Psychotherapy will also enhance your achievement at school or work. For example, healing/coaching university students past social anxieties and other complex issues to achieve excellence as they complete their degree. Or supporting a businessmen who needed psychotherapy and coaching to deal with the stress of the business world.

I plan to mentor counsellors/therapists individually or in an on-line course. This would include your own personal therapy and training in the concepts and practice of Christian Listening Prayer Therapy.

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I make use of the Power of EMDR

​Life isn’t easy. We all find ourselves in need of someone who can help us process what we’re feeling. This person not only listens with empathy and warmth. It also helps if they bring years of clinical experience to bear on our issues to provide accurate assessment of our issues and confidence guidance.  

I am an EMDR-traained therapist who uses EMDR to increase your capacity to process new information and old beliefs and emotions. This accelerates the achievement of your goals in psychotherapy.

EMDR Therapy has a reputation for being a uniquely powerful and fast-acting therapy. Evidence supports the contention that it is able to resolve deep-seated trauma. I have found it increases our access to spiritual gifts and hearing God's voice making it an ideal companion to Christian Listening Prayer Therapy.
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​My Promise
No session is ever wasted. Your time and financial investment will bring you and long-term benefits that are permanent. I use three different methods to achieve depth-oriented brief therapy.

The important thing is to experience your own true inner healing. However, ultimately, your investment is not only in yourself but also in your children, your marriage, your family, your closest relationships, and your work place. Where one gets healed we all get healed.
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I’m excited to start this process. Ready whenever you are.

Contact me for a free consultation on this process to see if I am a good fit for you.
George Hartwell M.Sc.
Cell: (416) 939-0544
​ Email: ghartwell at rogers.com

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How clients experience sessions with George:
“In my childhood I was often neglected, abandoned and rejected. George helped me to understand the root of family issues after one session. He uncovered core issues that were holding me back as an adult and has given me the emotional and spiritual support to rise above the abandonment and rejection I went through as a child.” - Katherine, Toronto

“George has a great sense of humour that compliments his sincere nature, which is backed up by a deep faith in the Lord. His counselling helped give me a more positive self-image and erased typical pitfalls that my Christian faith had fallen into. He is very flexible and truly caring. With God's help, he guided me to a path that I think eventually will lead me out of my tendency towards depression and past hurts.” - Tish, Ontario, Canada.

“I desperately needed someone to talk with and help me work out the struggles that I was facing. George was the first therapist I had ever sat down with and I felt completely relaxed. His healing prayer therapy had a tremendously positive effect on my life; I literally was freed from strongholds that were at work in my life. I am very grateful to George and sincerely recommend him." - Gene A., Toronto, Ontario

"I have found George to be an extremely insightful counsellor. One of his greatest gifts is his ability to be empathic. He maintains a harmonious balance between psychological and Biblical principles. His emphasis in listening prayer therapy has proven to be tremendously helpful to me in my search for self-awareness and healing. I am amazed at the results. Not only has God given me tremendous insight into my emotional scars and the lies I had believed, He has also replaced these with His truth." - Sharon of Beaton, Ontario
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“We feel much better about ourselves and our relationship. You have taught us the skills to effectively communicate with each other and in doing so have brought us much closer together. You have handed us so many useful tools that we will forever use to better ourselves. Our deepest thanks.” - Peter and Cathy of Toronto, Ontario

Through July 2010:
​#123- 1454 Dundas Street East, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
L4X 1L4 

​On-line sessions after July 2020.

ghartwell at Rogers dot com

 Cell Phone:
 (416) 939-0544

Photo by William Bout on Unsplash, Photo by Paulius Dragunas, 

Links to Using EMDR for Anxiety therapy, Fear Desensitization and Phobia Treatment
              Using EMDR for Enhanced Learning, Peak Performance and Treating Test Anxiety

​Peak Psychotherapy makes systematic use of EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) to:

1. generate peak learning and peak performance,
2. treat symptoms of stress, trauma and PTSD (Post traumatic stress disorder)
3. to heal our emotional personal trigger points, 
4. to bring healing to our own personal blocks to intimacy and
5. to deal with core belief issues and relationship traumas, ​
6.  for healing painful childhood memories and
   
7. for reducing panic and severe anxiety.