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George Hartwell M.Sc.

Registered Psychotherapist 

Experienced Clinician

Successful Couple Counsellor

Cell (416) 939-0544 

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My primary job as the therapist is to assist you in moving from conflict to resolution.

That generally requires this 4 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.
2. Learning skills so you as a couple can handle your subsequent differences collaboratively on their own. No more need either to disengage from each other or to fight.
3. 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.
4. Gaining insights into the childhood origins of your problematic habits and reducing further excessive emotional reactivity.  

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

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

$180 for a 90 minute couple sessions and individual sessions. Accepted is cash, cheque, bank transfer or PayPal.

Intensive Therapy or a Christian Marriage Retreat:
Intensive Christian Marriage Counselling involves 4  sessions per day with George. Fee is $720 per day. 


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

Office Location:
Life Transformation Group,
Suite #123 1454 Dundas Street East (Second floor offices)

City: Mississauga, Ontario. L4X 1L4
From Toronto at Islington subway station take Mississauga bus along Dundas Street and get off at Dixie.

​Phone if the outside door is locked and I will come down to let you in. George (416) 939-0544.

​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 George's articles: Avoidant Personality and Silent Divorce, 
              Obstacles to a Healthy Relationship    
               Handouts for Christian Marriage Counselling