Sessions available online and in-person
Phil Naylor Registered Psychotherapist

About Us

Our Focus

Phil Naylor is dedicated to facilitating healing, personal development, transformation and wellness. He offers various conventional and alternative counselling approaches towards achieving optimal well-being, mental health and peak performance.

Our Specialty

Our specialty is hypnosis, but we take an integrated “mind, body, spirit” approach, viewing the individual from a holistic perspective and customizing our approach based on our clients’ needs and preferences. 

We serve Guelph, Cambridge, Kitchener-Waterloo and surrounding areas through virtual and in-person sessions.

Meet Phil Naylor

Phil Naylor has over 20 years of experience in mental health and as a psychotherapist. He has a wide range of clinical skills, knowledge, and training. He incorporates a spiritual perspective wherever appropriate and according to client preferences and direction.


In treating thousands of clients, he has discovered what is most effective in addressing mental health issues and, just as importantly, how to help clients understand themselves and the root of their problem. 


Phil works with a wide range of mental health issues and is especially adept at working with trauma, PTSD, panic attacks, anxiety, phobias, depression and life transition issues. He facilitates powerful, measurable, client-centred results, quickly using conventional and alternative therapies - including clinical hypnosis, EMDR, CBT, analytic therapy and other approaches.

Phil has developed, managed and supervised many programs in the public mental health system, including: 


  • Mental health crisis programs
  • Adult mental health programs 
  • Directly supervised mental health clinical staff 
  • Provided direct individual counselling/therapy 
  • Facilitated therapy groups 


Phil continually adds to his knowledge base and skill set through ongoing continuing education in hypnosis and psychotherapy. He has studied Jungian psychology, transpersonal psychology and energy psychology.


Phil is a member of: 

  • A Registered Psychotherapist through The College of Registered Psychotherapist of Ontario (CRPO)
  • Ontario Society Of Registered Psychotherapists, (OSRP)
  • The National Guild of Hypnotists


Education and Training

  • BA (specialized honors) in psychology
  • Masters degree in psychology
  • Certificate in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT)
  • Registered Psychotherapist (RP)
  • Narrative therapy
  • Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
  • Adult education 
  • Certification in several different hypnosis schools through the National Guild of Hypnotists, The American School of Clinical Hypnosis and the Mike Mandel Hypnosis Academy
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