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Something to use this week
CBT and solution-focused work, so sessions end with a concrete step rather than a general principle.
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ADHD Therapy in Vaughan
A new house, a new job, maybe a new baby, and a routine that mostly runs by car. ADHD support for adults in Vaughan, online across Ontario, in English or Farsi.
Tina Abadi
Registered Psychotherapist
RP, MACP · CRPO #13777
Ghazal Sheikhtaheri
Founder & Clinical Director
RP (Qualifying) · CRPO #21300
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Some people want tools for this week. Others want to trace a pattern to its root. Both are good therapy. Ghazal is currently booking by waitlist (3–4 weeks).
What This Actually Is
When the problem was never effort
Most adults arrive at this conversation having already tried harder. Harder is not the missing ingredient, and it has usually been the only advice on offer for twenty years. What is actually difficult is a specific set of things: starting, sequencing, holding information in place while you use it, and switching between one mode and the next.
(This page is general information, not an assessment. A Registered Psychotherapist does not diagnose ADHD or prescribe medication, and you do not need a diagnosis for this work to be useful.)
- Knowing exactly what to do and being unable to start it.
- A week that goes to whatever was loudest rather than whatever mattered.
- Losing the thread mid-task, mid-sentence, mid-errand.
- Deep focus on what interests you, and none at all for what doesn't.
- Time that behaves strangely: an hour that vanishes, ten minutes that won't pass.
- The shame layered on top of all of it, usually the oldest part.
The Approach
Practical, and aimed at where the day actually breaks
Tina works in cognitive behavioural and solution-focused approaches, which in practice means sessions are structured without being rigid. You name what you want to be different, the two of you work out what is holding it in place, and you leave with something to try before the next one.
The systems are deliberately small. An elaborate one built on a good week will not survive a bad one, and every abandoned system becomes further evidence for a story you have been telling yourself for a long time. That story is the second half of the work, and for most people it turns out to be the half that was costing more.
Why NoorMinds
Four reasons clients choose this practice
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A Registered Psychotherapist
Tina Abadi, RP, CRPO #13777, with a Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology.
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English or Farsi
Including the part of this that was never only about focus. Sessions in either language.
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Online across Ontario
No commute and no waiting room, so the trip to an appointment is one less thing to manage.
Fees
Straightforward and stated upfront
Free15-min consultation
$180Individual · 60 min
Insurance receipts provided after every session. Tina is a fully Registered Psychotherapist, so psychotherapy with an RP is commonly covered; please confirm the details with your insurer.
Questions
Common questions
We just moved to Vaughan and everything is in flux. Is this a bad time to start ADHD therapy?
It is often a useful time, provided the work is scoped for it. Elaborate systems tend to fail during periods of change; a small number of sturdy habits do not. Tina Abadi, RP (CRPO #13777), works in solution-focused and cognitive behavioural approaches, online across Ontario, so sessions can start before the last boxes are unpacked.
Our family calendar in Vaughan is packed with school and activities, and my child's ADHD assessment made me recognize myself. Where do I start?
That is a reasonable place to start. A Registered Psychotherapist does not diagnose ADHD; if you want a formal assessment, that is a conversation for your physician. Therapy does not require a diagnosis to be useful, and a free 15-minute consultation with Tina Abadi, RP, is a low-pressure way to talk about what you have noticed and whether working together makes sense.
I spend a lot of my day in the car. How do online sessions fit?
Removing the trip is part of the point: for many adults with ADHD, travelling to an appointment is one more thing to plan and one more reason appointments get missed. Sessions with Tina Abadi, RP, are online and 60 minutes, and you can join from anywhere private in Ontario, though please not while driving.
Can a psychotherapist diagnose ADHD?
No. A Registered Psychotherapist does not diagnose medical conditions or prescribe medication, and this page is general information rather than an assessment. What therapy does is work on the difficulties themselves: starting, sequencing, remembering, and the shame that usually accompanies them. If you want a formal assessment, that is a conversation for your physician.
What kind of therapy do you use for ADHD?
Primarily cognitive behavioural and solution-focused work, which means sessions are structured and tend to end with something specific to try before the next one. Where there is trauma or long-standing self-criticism in the picture, the work is trauma-informed and paced to you.
Is online therapy effective for this kind of work?
Yes. Research finds video-delivered therapy comparable to in-person work for the concerns treated here, and executive-function strategies translate without loss. For many adults with ADHD, removing the trip to an appointment also removes one of the more common reasons appointments get missed.
Do I need a referral to start?
No referral is needed to begin psychotherapy with a Registered Psychotherapist. A free 15-minute consultation is the usual starting point, to talk about what is bringing you here and whether working together feels right.
What does it cost, and is it covered?
Individual sessions are $180 for 60 minutes, with a free 15-minute consultation to start. Receipts are provided after every session. Tina Abadi is a fully Registered Psychotherapist, so psychotherapy with an RP is commonly covered for her sessions; it is still worth confirming the details with your insurer.
Next Step
Start with something small and real
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NoorMinds offers online ADHD therapy to adults in Vaughan and across York Region, from Thornhill and Richmond Hill to Newmarket, and throughout the rest of Ontario.
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Vaughan
ADHD Therapy for Vaughan adults
Vaughan's population rose from 306,233 in 2016 to 323,103 in 2021, and growth of that kind is made of individual upheavals: a first house in a new subdivision, a new job, a new baby, a business in its first years. For an adult with ADHD each of those changes removes a piece of the scaffolding that was quietly holding the day together (the familiar route, the routine that ran on autopilot, the colleague who reminded you). People often read that period as a personal unravelling when it is more accurately a scaffolding problem, and reading it correctly changes what you do about it.
Daily logistics add weight. In 2021, 81.7% of Vaughan commuters drove to work, and the car is where many of the day's executive-function demands pile up: leaving on time, the school drop-off, the errand you meant to do on the way home and remembered in the driveway. In the same census 16.6% of residents were under 15, so many adults here are managing their children's schedules while struggling with their own, and sometimes it is watching a child's difficulties that first makes a parent wonder about themselves.
The work is cognitive behavioural and solution-focused, and deliberately modest in scope: a few systems sturdy enough to survive the next change, rather than an elaborate one that assumes a stability you do not have yet. Alongside that, the self-criticism, which tends to be loudest when everything else is in flux. Tina Abadi, RP (CRPO #13777), works online across Ontario in English or Farsi (فارسی), so this is one appointment that never needs the car.
Local support in Vaughan
Independent organizations, not affiliated with NoorMinds, that adults in Vaughan may find useful alongside or between sessions.
- CMHA York Region & South Simcoe: therapy, case management, youth services and peer support, with one central intake for York Region.
- Catholic Community Services of York Region: counselling for individuals, couples and families in several languages, open to every background and faith.
- York University Student Counselling, Health & Well-being: counselling and wellness services for York University students.