Introducing our couple therapist trained in:

1. Family Systems
2. Emotion Focused Couple Therapy
3. EMDR (Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing)

George Hartwell M.Sc.

Registered Psychotherapist (Ontario College of Registered Psychotherapists #006700)

Experienced Clinician (40+ years of clinical experience)

Successful Individual and Couple Counsellor

                                    Call or text (416) 939-0544 to book an on-line session.                                      
​Appointments are 90 minutes and the fee is $225.00.
Payment by e-transfer or PayPal. Receipts from a registered psychotherapist may qualify for insurance coverage.

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My job as the therapist is to help you move from conflict to resolution, from alienation to communication, from brokenness to wholeness. This requires both individual sessions and couple sessions. 

That generally requires this 3 Step plan:

1. Guiding you through a win-win problem-solving process to resolution of each of the issues on which you have been stuck based on learning listening skills as a basis for bonding and conflict resolution. 
2. Using my Peak Psychotherapy tools to resolve trigger points and your individual backstory and emotional issues. Learning skills for keeping the emotional tone between you happy and loving. No more anger, depression, or anxiety.  Lots more sharing of affection, appreciation, hugs and smiles.
3. Gaining insights into the childhood origins of your problematic habits and reducing further excessive emotional reactivity.  And providing individual session to enhance the couple therapy. 

Couples therapy is useful to the extent that it accomplishes these three objectives so that you can enjoy a collaborative (no more fighting), affectionate (including sexually intimate), long-lasting and long-loving partnership.

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

1. heal our emotional personal trigger points, 
2. bring healing to our own personal blocks to intimacy and
3. deal with core belief issues and relationship traumas, 
4. generating peak learning and peak performance,
5. EMDR for treating symptoms of stress, trauma and PTSD (Post traumatic stress disorder)
6. EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) as a resource for healing painful childhood memories and for reducing severe anxiety
7. See the Peak Psychotherapy Model of Life Transformation

Back Pages: links to information about George Hartwell from www.HealMyLife.com - my previous website:
Testimonies, About me, Board of Reference, Articles.

When considering couple counselling realize that it is process. The counsellor guides the process. Your participation activates the benefits.

Considering your time and money as the costs you may need to consider the cost of doing nothing to justify taking action. This include:

• A contested divorce where things get nasty can run up $40,000 in legal fees. Compare 12 (90 minute) counselling appointments of $2,160.
• Pain in the legal proceedings and pain, grief, loss of your love relationship. (Estimated pain costs of $10,000)
• Sense of failure, guilt and shame effecting your self confidence and self-esteem. (Put in your estimate of costs as that effects you for a life-time.) 
• Loss of status, social rejection and isolation by church, friends, and family. 
• Loneliness.
• Loss of family love of children and wife that protected and nurtured your spirit.

Cost for children:

• Anxiety and insecurity caused by parents fighting.
• Self-worth and confidence damaged by one parent denigrating the other parent.
• Loss of significant relationship with both parents replaced by diminished relationship with both or just one parent.
• Loss of secure home base provided by both parents being together.
• Possible loss of childhood to be replaced by growing up too soon and take adult emotional responsibility - for example being a support to mom.
• Possibly uprooted from schools, home, friends and community.
• Loss, or lessening, of family love of mother and father that protected and nurtured your spirit.
• Effects on physical health, emotional development, peer relationships and educational attainment.
• Depression and anger and loss of respect for parents.

Professional Fee:

$225 for a 90 minute couple sessions and individual sessions. Accepted is bank transfer or PayPal. Note there is a fee for missed and late-cancelled appointments that must be paid before further sessions are booked.

Christian couple counseling is by Zoom, SKYPE, or Facetime.


Schedule Appointments by phone by giving me a call at(416) 939-0544.

Mail to the office Location:
Life Transformation Group,
Suite #123 1454 Dundas Street East (Second floor offices)
 Mississauga, Ontario. L4X 1L4

​Insurance Coverage
For sessions with George, services will be covered in full or in part by your health insurance or employee benefit plan if you have coverage for Psychotherapy. I am a member of the Ontario College of Registered Psychotherapists - #006700.

Confidentiality & Privacy Policy: Your information is private and protected. See more details in Blog post on confidentiality.

Links to my articles: Avoidant Personality and Silent Divorce, 
              Obstacles to a Healthy Relationship    
               Handouts for Christian Marriage Counselling
My pages re my use of EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) for

• generating peak learning and peak performance,
• EMDR re stress and traumaEMDR re stress and trauma treating symptoms of stress, trauma and PTSD (Post traumatic stress disorder)
• ​Blog EMDR as a resource for Peak Psychotherapy

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