Welcome to Buddhaguy.com
Helping you to become the person you can become
This is the official web site of psychotherapist & educator
Howard Gontovnick, M.A
"We must be the change we wish to see in the world."
Mahatma Gandhi
"Not everything that is faced can be changed.
But nothing can be changed until it is faced."
James Baldwin
Howard Gontovnick has been a practicing psychotherapist and counsellor for over 20 years. His therapeutic philosophy is based on the premise that personal growth is a continual process that emanates from one's life experiences and their ability to discover their own deeper inner potentials. Once discovered, these deeper potentials begin a wonderful process of self-transformation.
Howard has an extensive background and educational studies with degrees in social science, psychology, philosophy, religious studies, and intensive training in psychotherapy, relationship counselling, marital and spiritual counselling, as well as the practice of different forms of meditation.
Areas of specialization:
- Life skill enhancement
- Personal growth development
- Bereavement counseling
- Personal trauma
- Occupational development
- Relationship enhancement
- Mediation
- Adolescent issues
- Spiritual issues
- Dependency problems
- Anxiety,depression,panic attacks….
Within each person, there are transformative qualities which can dramatically alter what a person can be.
Therefore, each psychotherapeutic session is an opportunity to let go of troublesome, unwanted, or discouraging feelings and move in the direction of becoming a completely new person. Using the “experiential” model of psychotherapy as developed by Dr. Alvin R. Mahrer, each session is an opportunity for transformation - a time for change.
Experiential psychotherapy does not aim at reducing or resolving problems. It's directions of change include the washing away of bad feelings of pain, hurt, suffering; the ending of scenes of bad feelings; no longer does the person behave in ways that construct and use the situational context to undergo painful experiencing accompanied with bad feelings (Mahrer, 1996).
Currently, Howard is completing his Ph.D. at Concordia University in Montreal. He is also a regular instructor in the Department of Continuing Education at Vanier College in Ville Saint-Laurent, Quebec.
The office of Howard Gontovnick is located at:
4351 Notre Dame, Suite #107-A
Chomedey, Laval, Qc – H7W 1T3
Telephone (450) 686-2440
Email Howard Gontovnick
Member of Ontario Association of Consultants, Counsellors, Psychometrists & Psychotherapists
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