Credentials
- Registered Psychotherapist (RP) — Ontario
- Member, College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO)
- Certified in Motivational Interviewing
- Training in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Trauma-informed and faith-informed practice
Matt Harris
Registered Psychotherapist • Addiction & Couples Specialist • Ontario
Matt Harris is a Registered Psychotherapist in Ontario with a deep commitment to helping people find their way through the pain of addiction and relational crisis. His work is grounded in a belief that healing requires honesty, support, and safety — and that beneath the patterns, secrecy, shame, and disconnection, there is still a person worthy of love, healing, grace, and hope.
Matt's practice is person-centred and faith-informed. He brings warmth, directness, and clinical rigour to every session — holding space for the spiritual, emotional, and relational dimensions of recovery while remaining clinically responsible and respectful of each client's story.
Background and training
Matt holds advanced training in addiction counselling and has worked in both community and private practice settings across Ontario. He has supported individuals and couples through some of the most difficult chapters of their lives — and has witnessed, many times over, what genuine healing can look like.
His approach draws from several evidence-based modalities, applied thoughtfully according to what each person needs:
Why addiction and relationships
Addiction does not only affect behaviour. It can affect intimacy, trust, communication, identity, spirituality, and the ability to feel worthy of love. Matt chose to specialize at the intersection of addiction and relationships because he has seen how powerfully change in one area ripples into the other.
"Hope & Love is not just about stopping addictive behaviour. It is about healing the disconnection addiction creates — for the person struggling, for the partner, and for the relationship."
A note on faith
Matt welcomes spiritual reflection, grace, and faith-informed support as part of the healing process — for those who want it. Faith-informed care at Hope & Love is invitational, never coercive. It is one resource among many, offered with clinical care and respect for each person's beliefs.
Working with Matt
Sessions with Matt are collaborative, honest, and grounded in respect for your autonomy. He will never promise outcomes he cannot guarantee. He will offer a warm, direct, and clinically grounded space to do the hard and hopeful work of healing — at a pace that is yours.
Six 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.
Faith-informed grace
Hope & Love welcomes spiritual reflection, grace, and faith-informed support — while remaining emotionally safe, clinically responsible, and respectful of each client's story. Faith is a resource, never a requirement.
Addiction is not the whole person. The pain is real. The damage matters. But there is still a person worthy of love, accountability, healing, and grace.
— Matt Harris, RP
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