Welcome to Buddhaguy.com

Helping you become the person you can become

The official web site of  psychotherapist & educator

Howard Gontovnick, M.A


Listen to a song that will open your heart and 
touch your soul.... 

.... its time for a real radical change and make 
this world a better place. 

Real change begins with you, why not face the challenge


Remember, you're never really alone (listen)

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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).

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