Jason Koenigbaur
Certified Gestalt Psychotherapist · MTS · RP · C.Hyp
Registered Psychotherapist & Clinical Director · Newmarket Therapy Centre East
In-Person (Newmarket East) · Online (Ontario-wide)
Claimable under Registered Psychotherapist, Registered Social Worker, or supervised Registered Psychologist benefits.
Jason is currently waitlisting new clients. Please contact Susan to be added to the waitlist.
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. Jason's work traces those symptoms back to their source and heals from there.
Jason Koenigbaur — Newmarket Therapy Centre EastClinical Philosophy
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 understood as messengers pointing to something deeper — unprocessed trauma, childhood wounds, or protective patterns that no longer serve. Clinical work traces the presenting difficulty back to its source and heals from there, rather than managing the symptoms alone.
Mind-Body Connection
The nervous system holds what the mind attempts to forget. Trauma is encoded in the body — in tension, breathing patterns, and survival responses. Effective healing engages both mind and body, using somatic work, EMDR, and neurofeedback to access the nervous system directly and release what has been held there.
Reconnection to True Self
Beneath all the defences, the protective patterns, and the shame, there is an authentic, whole, grounded self — one that exists prior to the hurt. Healing means reconnecting to that self: becoming present and aware of what is happening now, without judgment, and from a place of genuine self-acceptance.
The Paradoxical Theory of Change
Jason's primary guiding clinical principle is drawn from Gestalt Therapy: 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 — and to rise above obstacles with courage.
Therapeutic Approaches
Over more than 20 years, Jason has trained with leading international experts in trauma, neuroscience, and body-centred healing. His clinical toolkit is genuinely broad — drawing on the following evidence-based and integrative modalities, selected and combined based on each client's presenting needs and history.
EMDR
Processing traumatic memories at the neurological level — the way the brain was designed to — allowing them to be released rather than indefinitely managed. One of the most rigorously researched trauma treatments available.
Gestalt Therapy
Completing unfinished business and integrating parts of self. Jason holds a five-year post-diploma certification in Gestalt psychotherapy from the University of Toronto — the foundational orientation of his clinical work.
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Healing the wounded parts of the self and integrating them into wholeness. IFS offers a compassionate, precise framework for understanding how protective parts develop and what they are protecting.
Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT)
Working at the level of primary emotional experience to access, process, and transform the underlying feelings that maintain presenting difficulties.
Neurofeedback
Directly retraining the nervous system for calm, resilience, and regulation — working with brainwave activity to produce lasting neurological change. Particularly effective for trauma, ADHD, and chronic dysregulation.
Clinical Hypnotherapy
Changing beliefs and patterns at the subconscious level — accessing the deeper structures of thought and response that conscious reasoning alone cannot reach.
Somatic Therapy
Releasing the trauma the body has been holding — working directly with the nervous system's held responses to help them complete and discharge at a pace the system can manage.
Emotional Transformation Therapy (ETT)
Clearing emotional blocks and unresolved pain from past events — a rapid and effective approach to transforming stuck emotional states that have resisted other interventions.
Also utilised: CBT · Inner Child Work · Ego State Therapy · Image Transformation Therapy · Feeling State Protocol · Cognitive Behavioural Therapy · Single Session Therapy
What Changes
Clients working with Jason over time typically experience: anxiety and intrusive thoughts that finally quiet down; shame and self-blame losing their grip; relationships becoming more authentic and connected; improved sleep, fewer panic attacks, and greater presence in daily life; and a deepening sense of coming home to themselves. The goal is not temporary relief but real, lasting transformation — the kind that holds.
For First Responders — Real Relief from Occupational Trauma
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.
What Jason Works With
Education & Training
Certified Gestalt Psychotherapist
Five-year post-diploma training program in professional psychotherapy — University of Toronto
MTS — Master of Theological Studies / Pastoral Counselling
University of Toronto — training included pastoral psychotherapy and spiritual direction
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 East
16945 Leslie Street, Unit 7
Newmarket, Ontario L3Y 9A2
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.
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Ready to Work with Jason?
Jason is currently waitlisting new clients. Existing clients can book directly online. To be added to the waitlist, please contact Susan.
Newmarket East: (289) 500-8039