Credentials
- Registered Psychotherapist (RP), Ontario
- Member, College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO)
- Certified in EFT (Level 1 & 2), Couples
- EMDR Certified (EMDRIA Approved)
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Internal Family Systems (IFS)
- Trauma-Informed Care
Matt Harris
Registered Psychotherapist • Ontario
Matt brings both professional training and lived experience to his work as a psychotherapist. Having navigated the challenges of addiction and divorce, he understands firsthand the profound impact these experiences can have on mental health and overall wellbeing. This perspective allows him to work with clients in a way that is compassionate, non-pathologizing, and free from shame.
Having grown up between the United States and Canada, and having lived and travelled internationally for many years, Matt has been shaped by exposure to diverse cultures and ways of life. These experiences have deepened his capacity for empathy and his appreciation for the complexity of the human experience. Throughout his career, he has worked with adolescents, adults, and couples, as well as individuals experiencing homelessness, addiction, and a wide range of mental health concerns.
Matt spent several years working in primary care as a psychotherapist and mental health counsellor with the Prince Edward County Family Health Team. In this role, he conducted triage and comprehensive assessments, provided individual and group therapy, and facilitated ongoing recovery-focused programming, including currently leading a SMART Recovery group at the Picton Library.
Therapeutic approach
Matt's therapeutic style is warm, grounded, and collaborative. He strives to help clients feel genuinely heard, supported, and encouraged, while drawing on a range of evidence-based and relational approaches:
Matt is certified in EFT (Level 1 & 2) for Couples and EMDR (EMDRIA approved) for trauma processing.
Working with Matt
Sessions are collaborative and honest. Matt will not tell you what you want to hear, but he will take you seriously, respect your pace, and never promise outcomes he cannot guarantee. The work is hard. The space is safe.
Five values at the heart of Hope & Love
Compassion with truth
We meet people with grace, but we do not avoid reality. Healing requires honesty. Compassion without truth is not compassion, it is avoidance dressed up as kindness.
Person-centred care
People are more than their addiction, their pain, their choices, or their relationship status. Support must honour the whole person, not just the presenting problem.
Accountability without shame
Responsibility matters. So does dignity. People heal best when accountability is paired with safety, clarity, and hope, not condemnation.
Love with boundaries
Love is not denial, rescuing, enabling, or staying in unsafe situations. Healthy love includes boundaries, wisdom, and the courage to ask for support. Boundaries can be an act of love.
Practical hope
Hope is more than a feeling. It becomes therapy, support plans, relapse prevention, communication tools, crisis planning, and next steps. Hope becomes meaningful when it turns into action.
Whole-person care
Healing involves more than symptoms. Culture, relationships, identity, and lived experience all shape how people struggle and how they heal. Whole-person care means honouring all of it.
The pain is real. The damage matters. But beneath the patterns and the shame, there is still a person capable of real change and worthy of genuine support.
Matt Harris, RP
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