“Recovery can only take place within the context of relationships; it cannot occur in isolation.”

Judith Lewis Herman

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Jamie Campbell is a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) and Associate Therapist at Five Star Relationships where she offers in-person services in Guelph and virtual therapy across Ontario. She offers compassionate and respect-focused therapy to individuals, men, couples, and teens experiencing a range of concerns, particularly those connected to trauma, relationships, and emotional regulation.

 

Jamie takes a collaborative and down-to-earth approach. She works with people to understand what may be contributing to feelings of being stuck, disconnected, or overwhelmed. Clients can expect to work at a comfortable pace to create meaningful and lasting change.

 

Jamie’s therapeutic approach is primarily psychodynamic, humanistic, somatic, and attachment-focused. She integrates practical skills and psychoeducation. Her work is grounded in a trauma-informed, anti-oppressive, and inclusive perspective. She welcomes individuals from all backgrounds and understands struggles as meaningful responses to life experiences, relationships, and environments.

Approaches to Therapy

Insight + Meaning

Patterns, emotions, and personal history may be explored to better understand how your experiences have shaped you. This work is informed by psychodynamic, existential, and narrative approaches, helping deepen self-understanding and support meaningful, lasting change. Working from an anti-oppressive lens, culture, identity, and social context are also taken into account to understand experience. 

Relationships 

Therapy may focus on how you connect with others, experience closeness or distance, and navigate conflict or emotional needs. Drawing from attachment-based, emotionally focused (EFT/EFIT), somatic, and systems approaches, therapy can help build safety, regulation, and stronger relationships. This work often involves slowing down interactions, understanding reactions, and creating new ways of relating.

Practical + Lasting

Concrete skills are integrated to manage difficult thoughts, emotions, and behaviours in daily life. Using ACT, CBT, and DBT informed skills, along side of psychoeducation, the goal is to develop tools that support resilience, emotional regulation, and sustainable change. These strategies are tailored to be realistic and practical, ultimately making them relevant and sustainable outside of sessions. 

Areas of Expertise

  • Post-traumatic stress, relational and generational trauma, and complex trauma

  • Religious trauma and experiences in authoritarian or controlling groups or relationships

  • Grief and loss, including complicated grief and loss involving abuse or ambivalent relationships

  • Systemic oppression and racism

  • Men’s issues, including anger, emotional isolation, and identity pressures

  • Pornography use and compulsive sexual behaviour patterns, including understanding activation cycles and building change-focused behaviours

  • Experiences of domestic violence or harmful relationship dynamics (both those who have experienced harm and those wanting to change their behaviour)

  • Relationship difficulties and attachment concerns

  • Fear of intimacy and difficulty connecting emotionally

  • Breakups, separation, and relationship transitions

  • Couples conflict, communication, betrayal, and rebuilding trust

  • Parenting challenges, including managing reactivity and building relational skills

  • Teen concerns, including bullying, identity development, isolation, and the emotional impacts of social media and technology