Jason Koenigbaur
Certified Gestalt Psychotherapist · MTS · RP · C.Hyp
Registered Psychotherapist & Clinical Director · Newmarket Therapy Centre
In-Person & Online (Ontario-wide)
Claimable under extended health benefits. Receipts provided.
New clients please contact Susan first — she will match you with the right therapist.
About Jason
Jason Koenigbaur is the founder and Clinical Director of Newmarket Therapy Centre — a Registered Psychotherapist with over 20 years of experience in mental health, trained by leading experts in trauma, neuroscience, and body-centred healing. He co-founded Newmarket Therapy Centre in 2018 alongside his wife Jodie, driven by a shared conviction that lasting healing requires the integration of mind, heart, and body.
Jason's clinical specialisation centres on helping individuals heal from trauma, PTSD, childhood abuse, attachment wounds, and nervous system dysregulation. He also works extensively with couples and first responders, and brings a depth of clinical training and personal conviction to this work that is genuinely unusual in private practice. In addition to his clinical role, Jason serves as clinical supervisor for qualifying therapists at Newmarket Therapy Centre.
His broader clinical work spans anxiety, depression, shame, relationship difficulties, and the full range of presentations that arise when unresolved emotional experience shapes the present. Jason has also worked with several community-based clinical counselling agencies in Newmarket and York Region, providing CBT and Solution-Focused Therapy to individuals, couples, and families while mentoring and supervising student therapists.
Real healing goes deeper than symptom management. Symptoms are messengers — pointing to unprocessed trauma, childhood wounds, or protective patterns that no longer serve. My work traces those symptoms back to their source and heals from there.
Jason Koenigbaur — Newmarket Therapy CentreClinical Approach
Jason's clinical approach is built on a conviction that lasting change requires going to the root rather than managing the surface. Most people arrive at therapy struggling with anxiety, depression, or relationship difficulties — but these presentations are rarely the root of the difficulty. Beneath them, more often than not, is a deeper disconnection: from parts of the self that have been hidden, defended against, or abandoned.
Three principles guide Jason's work with every client: root-cause healing (symptoms are messengers pointing to unprocessed trauma or protective patterns; clinical work traces them back to source); the mind-body connection (the nervous system holds what the mind attempts to forget — effective healing engages both, using somatic work, EMDR, and neurofeedback to access the nervous system directly); and reconnection to true self (beneath the defences and protective patterns there is an authentic, whole, grounded self — healing means reconnecting to it).
Jason's primary guiding clinical principle is drawn from Gestalt Therapy: the Paradoxical Theory of Change — the more a person accepts themselves, the healthier they become. The primary aim is not to force change, but to support clients in embracing their emotions authentically, including the parts of self that have been rejected or disowned.
Therapy Approaches
Who Jason Works With
For First Responders
Police officers, firefighters, paramedics, and emergency workers are exposed to what most people never see. PTSD, hypervigilance, moral injury, and emotional numbing are not weaknesses — they are normal responses to abnormal exposure. Traditional talk therapy often does not address trauma that is encoded in the nervous system rather than the narrative mind.
EMDR, somatic work, and neurofeedback access the nervous system directly — allowing clients to process what they have witnessed and reclaim emotional presence in their lives. Jason has extensive experience with first responders and understands the culture, demands, and stigma that can make seeking support difficult. The therapeutic space is confidential, non-judgmental, and designed around what actually works.
First-Responder Populations
Education & Training
Certified Gestalt Psychotherapist
Five-year post-diploma program · University of Toronto
MTS — Master of Theological Studies
Pastoral Counselling · University of Toronto
Registered Psychotherapist (RP)
College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO)
Clinical Hypnotherapist (C.Hyp)
Certified clinical hypnotherapy practitioner
Over 20 years of advanced training with leading international experts in trauma, neuroscience, EMDR, somatic therapy, and body-centred healing. Jason also serves as clinical supervisor for qualifying therapists at Newmarket Therapy Centre. Insurance accepted under Registered Psychotherapist, Registered Social Worker, and supervised Registered Psychologist benefit categories.
Newmarket Therapy Centre
Newmarket, Ontario
In-person and online sessions available across Ontario. Susan, our Client Care Manager, will personally match you with the right therapist before your first session.
Call (289) 500-8039 ›Sessions are claimable under extended health benefits as a Registered Psychotherapist, Registered Social Worker, or supervised Registered Psychologist.
Check your policy for per-session and annual limits. Receipts provided for all sessions.
Browse our full team of registered therapists — each with their own specialties, approaches, and availability.
Ready to Work with Jason?
Jason is currently waitlisting new clients. To be added to the waitlist or to inquire about scheduling, please call us or contact Susan.