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EFT-informed approach
Emotionally Focused Therapy is the gold standard for couples work, backed by decades of research showing lasting improvement in relationship satisfaction and secure attachment.
Online across Ontario · English & فارسی
Couples Therapy in London, Ontario
Build a relationship that feels safe again. Online couples therapy for partners in London, Ontario, whether you came here for a program, a residency or a job, or have lived here all your lives. Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) and Schema Therapy, in English or Farsi.
Ghazal SheikhtaheriGhazal
Founder & Clinical Director
RP (Qualifying) · CRPO #21300
Waitlist · 3–4 weeks
Both partners are welcome on the free 15-minute call, or just one. Tina and Roya are booking now; Ghazal is booking by waitlist (3–4 weeks).
Sound Familiar?
Do any of these feel familiar?
- You keep having the same argument over and over: different topic, same hurt, same shutdown.
- You feel more like roommates than partners, going through the motions but emotionally miles apart.
- One of you pursues while the other withdraws, and neither of you knows how to stop the cycle.
- Trust has been damaged by betrayal, dishonesty, or simply years of unspoken resentment.
- You moved to London for school or work, and the family and old friends who used to cushion a hard week are now a long drive or a flight away.
- Cultural or family expectations add an invisible layer of pressure that outsiders don't understand.
- Money has become the argument underneath the arguments: rent, student debt, or one income carrying two people while the other studies or retrains.
The Approach
What couples therapy looks like at NoorMinds
Couples therapy here is built on Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), the most researched and evidence-based approach for couples. EFT helps you and your partner identify the negative interaction cycles that keep you stuck, and creates new patterns of emotional connection and safety between you.
Ghazal also integrates Schema Therapy into couples work, which helps each partner understand the deep emotional patterns formed in childhood, and how those patterns get triggered in the relationship. When you understand why your partner's behaviour hits so hard, and why your reactions feel so automatic, real change becomes possible.
Why NoorMinds
Four reasons couples choose this practice
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Deeper pattern work
Schema Therapy helps each partner understand the childhood wounds driving their reactions, so you stop blaming each other and start understanding what's really happening.
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Culturally sensitive
As an Iranian immigrant herself, Ghazal understands how cultural background shapes relationship expectations: family involvement, gender roles, and the weight of unspoken rules.
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Bilingual sessions
Available in English and Farsi (فارسی). Both partners don't need to speak Farsi. Sessions adapt to whatever language mix works for your relationship.
Pricing
Simple, transparent pricing
Free15-min consultation
$225Couples · 60 min
$350Couples · 90 min
Insurance receipts provided. Many extended health plans cover psychotherapy with a Registered Psychotherapist. Ghazal holds the Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) designation, so please confirm your plan covers it. Full fees & insurance details
90-Minute Extended Session · $350
By popular demand. The extended format gives couples more room to slow down, move through difficult conversations without feeling rushed, and explore the deeper patterns shaping the relationship. Many couples choose the 90-minute format for their first session, when there's the most ground to cover.
Separate receipts can be issued for each partner where plans allow.
Questions
Common questions
What is Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)?
EFT is the most researched couples therapy approach in the world. It helps partners identify the negative cycles keeping them stuck, like pursue-withdraw or attack-attack patterns, and guides them toward new ways of responding that create emotional safety and secure attachment. Research shows 70-75% of couples move from distress to recovery with EFT.
Does online couples therapy actually work?
Yes. Research shows online couples therapy is as effective as in-person sessions. Many couples find virtual sessions more convenient and less stressful: you're in your own space, there's no commute, and scheduling becomes easier. All you need is a private room and a stable internet connection.
My partner is reluctant. Should I wait until they're ready?
It's common for one partner to be more ready than the other. A free 15-minute consultation can help. Sometimes hearing what therapy actually involves makes it less intimidating. If your partner isn't ready yet, individual therapy can also help you understand your own patterns and shift the dynamic from your side.
How long does couples therapy take?
It depends on the depth of the issues. Some couples notice meaningful shifts within 8-12 sessions. More complex situations, like healing after betrayal or long-standing disconnection, may take longer. We'll discuss realistic expectations during your consultation.
Do both partners need to speak Farsi?
No. Ghazal, Tina and Roya all work in English and Farsi. Sessions can be conducted in English, Farsi, or a mix of both, whatever works for your relationship. If one partner speaks Farsi and the other doesn't, sessions adapt naturally.
What's the difference between couples therapy and individual therapy?
Individual therapy focuses on your personal patterns and wellbeing. Couples therapy focuses on the relationship itself: the dynamic between you, the cycles you get caught in, and how to create a more secure bond together. Some people benefit from both simultaneously.
We're both students in London and exams plus money worries are straining our relationship. Can we fit couples therapy in between classes?
Yes. Sessions are online, so you can join from your apartment or any private room with a stable connection, wherever you are in London. Couples sessions are $225 for 60 minutes or $350 for 90 minutes, and the free 15-minute consultation lets you ask questions before committing to anything. Receipts are provided for extended health claims; Ghazal Sheikhtaheri holds the Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) designation, CRPO #21300, so check that your plan covers it. Sessions are in English, Farsi or both.
We live outside the city, in Middlesex or Elgin County. Can we still book?
Yes. NoorMinds works online only, so there is no office to travel to and no distance limit within Ontario. Couples in London, in the surrounding counties and anywhere else in the province meet by video, from home or wherever you both have privacy.
We both work shifts in London and barely see each other awake. Is it worth starting couples therapy when time is this tight?
Often that is when it helps most, because the few hours you do share are the ones going to arguments. Sessions are booked through Jane, with evening times available, and there is no travel, so a 60-minute session costs you an hour rather than an evening. A free 15-minute consultation is a low-pressure way to see what a realistic rhythm could look like for the two of you.
Next Step
Ready to reconnect?
Whether you have been in London for one winter or twenty, the first step is a free 15-minute consultation. No commitment, no pressure.
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NoorMinds offers online couples therapy to partners in London, the surrounding counties and the rest of Ontario, with Emotionally Focused Therapy and Schema Therapy in English and Farsi.
Couples Therapy Across Ontario
NoorMinds provides virtual couples therapy to partners throughout Ontario. Select your city to learn more:
London
Couples therapy when home is London, Ontario
A lot of couples in London, Ontario did not grow up here. The city grew by about ten per cent between the 2016 and 2021 censuses, to 422,324 people, and in a city growing that quickly many couples arrived for study, training or a job. Moving for an opportunity often means leaving behind the people who used to absorb the ordinary strain of a relationship: the parent who took the kids for a weekend, the friend who heard the complaint before it reached your partner, the family table where a fight could cool off. When those buffers are a long drive or a flight away, the relationship has to carry everything, and small ruptures stay open longer.
Money is the other quiet pressure. London costs less to live in than the GTA, but that is not the same as easy: in 2021, 39 per cent of renting households in the city spent 30 per cent or more of their income on shelter. When rent takes that share, arguments about groceries, a car repair or a trip home are rarely only about money. They are about fairness and security, and about whether each of you feels the other is pulling their weight.
Couples who are new to the city often describe a particular loneliness: two people who chose a move together, now each quietly wondering whether it was the right call and afraid to say so. That doubt rarely gets spoken directly. It leaks out as criticism about dishes, schedules or whose turn it is to call home, and each partner ends up defending themselves against an accusation the other never quite made. Therapy gives the doubt somewhere safe to land.
Emotionally Focused Therapy works on the pattern rather than the topic. Ghazal Sheikhtaheri helps couples slow down the moment where one partner pushes for an answer and the other goes quiet, and name what each of you is actually afraid of losing. Schema Therapy adds the history: why a partner's silence lands as abandonment for one of you, or why being asked for help feels like criticism to the other. If you would rather work in a more structured, practical way, Tina Abadi also offers EFT-based couples therapy. Roya Dadollahi Sarab, RP, also offers Emotionally Focused Therapy, with a culturally responsive lens.
Most Londoners have short commutes, with about three in four commuting residents travelling under 30 minutes in 2021, so the barrier to couples therapy here is rarely the drive. It is finding an hour when you are both home, neither of you is on shift, and there is energy left to talk. Online sessions remove the travel and the sitter's clock: you join from the same couch, anywhere in London or elsewhere in Ontario, in English, Farsi or both. When there is a lot to untangle, the 90-minute extended session gives you room to slow down without watching the clock.
Local support in London
These London organizations are independent and not affiliated with NoorMinds; couples sometimes find them useful alongside or between sessions.
- Family Service Thames Valley: non-profit counselling for individuals, couples and families in London and Middlesex.
- Muslim Resource Centre for Social Support and Integration: culturally integrative counselling and support for family well-being in London's Muslim communities.
- London Abused Women's Centre: counselling, advocacy and support for women and girls who have experienced intimate partner violence.
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