EMDR Group for Therapists
Providing Psychotherapy and Counselling services for therapists and helping professionals, in person at our office in Burlington and virtually online across Ontario.
Do You Feel Exhausted, Overextended, or Like You're Carrying Everyone Else's Needs?
You are not alone. Many helping professionals silently carry the weight of burnout, compassion fatigue, and chronic over-responsibility—a pattern of constantly caring for others while struggling to care for themselves.
You dedicate your time, energy, and emotional capacity to supporting others through difficult moments. Whether you work in healthcare, mental health, education, social services, caregiving, or another helping profession, the demands of your role can leave you feeling depleted, overwhelmed, and disconnected from yourself.
As a helping professional, maybe you:
- Feel emotionally and physically exhausted, even after time off
- Find yourself carrying clients’, patients’, students’, or coworkers’ struggles long after the day ends
- Struggle to set boundaries and often put others’ needs before your own
- Feel guilty saying no, taking breaks, or prioritizing self-care
- Notice feelings of resentment, numbness, or disconnection creeping into your work
- Feel responsible for everyone’s wellbeing and find it difficult to ask for support
- Worry that slowing down means letting others down
- Feel stuck in a cycle of overgiving that is no longer sustainable
If this resonates, you’re not alone. These patterns are often rooted in nervous system responses, past experiences, professional conditioning, and the expectations placed on those in helping roles.
This EMDR Group for Helping Professionals is a space to begin healing the patterns that contribute to burnout, compassion fatigue, and difficulty maintaining healthy boundaries—so you can continue doing meaningful work without sacrificing your own wellbeing.
You will benefit from EMDR Group for Therapists if you:
- Feel emotionally exhausted, overwhelmed, or disconnected from your work
- Struggle to separate your professional role from your personal life
- Have difficulty setting and maintaining healthy boundaries
- Experience guilt when prioritizing your own needs
- Feel responsible for fixing, rescuing, or supporting everyone around you
- Want to move from survival mode to a more sustainable way of living and working
- Are looking for support from others who understand the unique challenges of helping professions
Group EMDR Therapy for financial trauma with our team at Christina Janiga Psychotherapy helps you:
- Identify patterns of overgiving, people-pleasing, and over-responsibility
- Understand how your nervous system responds to chronic stress and emotional demands
- Reprocess experiences contributing to burnout and compassion fatigue through EMDR therapy
- Build skills to regulate your nervous system and recover from chronic stress
- Reconnect with your values and sense of balance creating a more sustainable relationship with your work
EMDR Group for Therapists Details:
When:
Mondays – September 21, 28, and October 5, 2026
2:00–4:00 PM EST
Where:
At our Burlington, Ontario office location Christina Janiga Psychotherapy (virtual attendance is an option for those that cannot make it to our office).
Led by:
Christina Janiga, RP
EMDR Certified Therapist & Consultant
Ashira Gobrin, Counselling Intern
Certified in Brainspotting & Consultant
Group Size: 4-10 participants
Fee: $200 per 2 hour group
Session Overview:
- 3 live, in-person EMDR therapy sessions (2 hours each)
- Group processing utilizing GTEP protocol of EMDR therapy
- Supportive and confidential group environment with other helping professionals
More about our EMDR Group for Therapists Facilitators
If you are interested in seeking therapy to help you overcome anxiety, we encourage you to reach out to us for a free 15-minute consultation. During the consultation, we will answer any questions you have about our practice and our psychotherapists, and help you determine if we are the right fit for you. We believe that feeling comfortable with your therapist is essential for a successful therapeutic relationship.
Christina Janiga, BSc, MACP, RP
Christina Janiga, BSc, MACP, RP is a registered psychotherapist providing in person and virtual psychotherapy and therapy intensives in Burlington, ON and across Ontario. She is a Certified EMDR therapist and a EMDR Consultant. She has multiple additional advanced trainings for EMDR therapy, including GTEP, Flash, and 4 Blinks.
Ashira Lapin
Ashira Lapin is a counselling intern (supervised by Christina) providing virtual psychotherapy in Burlington, ON and across Ontario. She is Certified in Brainspotting and a Brainspotting Consultant. She is trained in multiple modalities of trauma-focused healing to best support individuals who are looking to feel better faster.
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EMDR Group for Therapists is meant to help healing professionals decrease their symptoms of burn out and unblock their money barriers. Together, as a group, you will feel supported in identifying your money survival style, learn to regulate your nervous system and release and rewire your beliefs around money. Your traumas attached to these barriers will be processed utilizing an art-based therapy Group Traumatic Episode Protocol (GTEP) EMDR therapy protocol where NO traumatic material is shared amongst participants.
Reserve Your Spot
Spots are limited. Early registration is recommended and pre-screening is required.
Christina Janiga Psychotherapy uses a trauma questionnaire and phone (or virtual) screening to determine who can benefit the most from this therapy.
During this initial 60 minute pre-screening session, you will meet with our trained Intern Psychotherapists (supervised by Christina Janiga), who will help define the psychotherapy group dynamics and discuss the details of the informed consent for Group Therapy.
*To help reduce costs, pre-screening intake sessions for Group EMDR Therapy for Therapists wanting to work through their financial trauma are provided through our Internship Program and are at NO COST for you to complete.
We are a team of skilled Registered Psychotherapists and EMDR therapists committed to helping individuals achieve meaningful and lasting change. Our goal is to help you address the root causes of burnout and compassion fatigue so you can feel more present, energized, and connected in both your personal and professional life.
We offer a range of evidence-based treatment approaches, including Individual EMDR Therapy, Group EMDR Therapy, and EMDR Intensives to help you process difficult experiences, regulate your nervous system, and move toward greater wellbeing.
We understand that reaching out for support can feel difficult, especially when you are accustomed to being the person others rely on. We are committed to creating a safe, supportive, and compassionate environment where you can focus on your own healing.
Frequently Asked Questions
It is a small, confidential group for helping professionals who carry burnout, compassion fatigue, and money-related stress. Across three live two-hour sessions, you process the experiences that fuel overgiving, people-pleasing, and money barriers using EMDR therapy. The work helps you regulate your nervous system, identify your “money survival style,” and build a more sustainable relationship with your practice and your life.
This group fits therapists and other helping professionals — in healthcare, mental health, education, social services, or caregiving — who feel emotionally exhausted, struggle to set boundaries, feel guilty prioritizing their own needs, or want to move out of survival mode. If you feel responsible for everyone’s wellbeing and find it hard to ask for support, you belong here.
The group uses the Group Traumatic Episode Protocol (GTEP), a form of EMDR therapy. A key feature is privacy: no traumatic material is shared among participants. You process your own experiences within the safety of the group without disclosing details to others.
No. The group is designed for helping professionals seeking their own healing, not for clinicians learning to deliver EMDR. You do not need any EMDR training or background to participate.
The group holds 4 to 10 participants. The fee is $200 per two-hour session. Reduced-cost pre-screening intake is provided through the Internship Program at no cost to you.
Yes — pre-screening is required. You complete a trauma questionnaire and a 60-minute phone or virtual screening with a supervised intern psychotherapist. This session clarifies the group dynamics and reviews informed consent, and it helps determine who will benefit most from the group format.
Sessions run at the Burlington, Ontario office, and virtual attendance is available for those who cannot attend in person.
Christina Janiga, RP, an EMDR Certified Therapist and Consultant, leads the group, supported by a counselling intern certified in Brainspotting. You can book a free 15-minute consultation first if you would like to ask questions before committing.
Spots are limited and early registration is recommended. You can register through the online booking portal or request more information through the contact form on the page.