Eight-phase EMDR protocol
History-taking, preparation, assessment, desensitization, installation, body scan, closure, and re-evaluation. Each session has a clear structure rather than open-ended discussion.
Modalities
Specialist work,
structured carefully.
EMDR for trauma. CSAT-informed work for sexual addiction and betrayal trauma. Systemic family and couples work. Individual counselling for adults.
By appointment. Booking by phone, returned promptly. Receipts for Registered Psychotherapy.
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Trauma, PTSD, stuck memories
EMDR Therapy
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing is a structured, eight-phase trauma therapy with strong research support. Johnson is EMDR-Trained through the EMDR International Association and uses the standard protocol for both single-event and complex trauma.
Single-event trauma
Accidents, assaults, medical events, or specific incidents that the nervous system has not fully processed. Often a shorter EMDR course than complex-trauma work.
Complex and developmental trauma
Trauma woven through childhood, attachment, or ongoing harm. Longer treatment, with phase-two stabilisation work alongside reprocessing.
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Compulsive behaviour and recovery
CSAT and Sexual Addiction
Certified Sex Addiction Therapist training, used to support individuals working through compulsive sexual behaviour and their partners through betrayal trauma. The work is confidential, clinical, and longer-term than a quick consultation.
Individual recovery
Assessment, treatment planning, and step-by-step recovery work for compulsive sexual behaviour using the IITAP-grounded CSAT framework.
Betrayal trauma support
Partners affected by sexual addiction receive their own clinical support, with care taken to keep the two tracks of recovery separate when needed.
Disclosure and repair
Structured disclosure conversations, repair work, and relationship recovery for couples choosing to rebuild after compulsive behaviour comes to light.
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Systems-based clinical work
Family and Couples Therapy
Couples and family therapy delivered from a systems framework. The whole relational picture comes into the room, including the longer history of how each member learned to do conflict, connection, and repair.
Couples therapy
Communication, conflict, sex and intimacy, parenting, finances, and the long-running patterns most partnerships face. Both partners attend together.
Family sessions
Inter-generational dynamics, parenting collaboration, and family-of-origin patterns brought into the present. Children and extended family can attend as appropriate.
Repair after sexual betrayal
When a couple is processing compulsive behaviour, the couples track sits alongside the individual CSAT and betrayal-trauma tracks. Sessions are paced carefully.
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Anxiety, depression, identity
Individual Counselling
Alongside the specialist EMDR and CSAT work, the practice offers individual counselling for adults navigating anxiety, depression, life transitions, and identity questions. Sessions are 50 minutes, typically weekly or biweekly.
Anxiety and depression
Talk therapy approaches integrated with EMDR where appropriate. The right cadence and length of treatment is set at the assessment.
Identity and life transitions
Career changes, family-of-origin patterns, faith and meaning-making questions, and the slow renegotiation of identity over time.
Spiritual and pastoral care
Drawing on Master of Divinity and Master of Pastoral Studies training. For clients whose faith is part of the conversation, those questions have space.
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Booking, format, receipts
How sessions work
Sessions are booked by phone. Initial intake is longer than follow-up sessions so the assessment and treatment plan can be built carefully. Receipts are issued at every session for submission to extended health benefits where applicable.
Phone booking
Call 226-779-8130 to book. Leave a voicemail if Johnson is in session and the call is returned between appointments, usually the same business day.
Initial intake
60 to 75 minute intake for individuals; longer for couples and family work. EMDR and CSAT clients leave intake with a clear sense of the treatment plan and timeline.
Receipts for benefits
Receipts are issued at the end of each session under the Registered Psychotherapist designation. Coverage varies by plan, please confirm with your benefits provider.
A note on photos
Interior photos are representative.
Johnson's practice does not currently have a photo gallery online. The interior shots on this preview are representative of a private psychotherapy office. Real photos of the actual practice space can be swapped in before the site goes live.
The next step
A confidential first call.
Phone goes directly to Johnson. Leave a voicemail and the call is returned between sessions.