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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 Mississauga
Build a relationship that feels safe again. When housing costs, long shifts and family obligations leave the two of you negotiating instead of connecting, couples therapy can help you turn back toward each other. Online sessions for couples in Mississauga, using 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.
- It feels like one partner is doing all the emotional work, and the other doesn't see the problem.
- Every conversation about the mortgage, the rent or whether to move turns into the same fight about who is carrying more.
- Parents, in-laws or relatives overseas have expectations of your marriage that one of you feels far more than the other.
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.
Money and housing costs are behind a lot of our arguments in Mississauga. Can couples therapy help with that?
Couples therapy won't replace a budget or a financial plan, but it can change what happens between you when money comes up: the blame, the shutdown, and the fear that usually sits underneath. Emotionally Focused Therapy helps you see the cycle you fall into during those conversations, and Schema Therapy looks at what money meant in each of your families growing up. Sessions are online, in English or Farsi, so you can meet from home without adding a trip to an already full week.
What if our arguments at home in Mississauga have started to feel unsafe?
If you are in immediate danger, call 911. Couples therapy works when both partners can speak honestly without fear, so if either of you is afraid of the other, say so privately in the free consultation and Ghazal, Tina or Roya will talk with you about what kind of support fits. In Peel, the Safe Centre of Peel supports people affected by intimate partner violence; it is listed with the other Mississauga organizations further down this page.
Next Step
Ready to reconnect?
Book a free 15-minute consultation from home in Mississauga, together or on your own. No commitment, no pressure.
Or call (647) 699-5142 · WhatsApp · Email
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NoorMinds offers online couples therapy to partners in Mississauga and the rest of Peel Region, and to couples anywhere else in Ontario. Culturally sensitive, evidence-based care in English and Farsi, with no drive to fit into the week.
Couples Therapy Across Ontario
NoorMinds provides virtual couples therapy to partners throughout Ontario. Select your city to learn more:
Mississauga
Couples therapy for Mississauga households
Ask couples in Mississauga what their arguments are really about and housing comes up early. The median value of a dwelling in the city was $900,000 in the 2021 Census, and 39 per cent of renting households were spending at least 30 per cent of their income on shelter. At home, those numbers look like two full-time jobs that leave little of either person, a move to a cheaper area debated for years, and a talk about one bill that ends up being about whether you are still a team.
Housing costs also shape who lives under your roof. Some couples stay with parents longer than planned to save for a down payment; others take in a relative who has just arrived in Canada. That generosity is real, and it changes a relationship: less privacy, more opinions, and fewer moments when the two of you are a couple rather than a household.
Schedules pull couples apart too. Toronto Pearson sits inside the city and Peel is one of the country's big trucking and warehousing regions, so plenty of households here include someone whose shift starts before dawn or ends after midnight. When one of you is asleep while the other is awake, the relationship starts to run on text messages, and small hurts pile up without ever being talked through.
Emotionally Focused Therapy is designed for that pile-up. It maps the cycle you fall into, often one partner pressing for a real conversation while the other goes quiet to avoid another fight, and slows it down until each of you can hear what the other is asking for. Schema Therapy adds the history underneath: why a late reply lands as abandonment for one of you, or why any mention of money sounds like criticism to the other.
More than half of Mississauga's residents were born outside Canada, so many couples here are also bridging two sets of family expectations: how close to live to parents, what in-laws are owed, how much should go to relatives abroad. Those questions deserve room in the sessions rather than being treated as a side issue, and the conversation can move between English and Farsi if that helps.
Every session is online, so there is no third commute to squeeze between two jobs. You join from home, together, with a private room and a stable connection, and if your schedules overlap only once a week, the 90-minute session gives you room to slow down without watching the clock. Ghazal Sheikhtaheri, Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), works with couples using EFT and Schema Therapy. Tina Abadi, RP, offers Emotionally Focused Therapy. Roya Dadollahi Sarab, RP, also offers Emotionally Focused Therapy, with a culturally responsive lens. All three work online with couples in Mississauga and across Ontario.
Local support in Mississauga
These are independent organizations, not affiliated with NoorMinds, that couples in Mississauga may find useful alongside or between sessions.
- Family Services of Peel: counselling for individuals, couples and families across Peel.
- Catholic Family Services Peel-Dufferin: counselling for couples and families of any faith or background.
- Dixie Bloor Neighbourhood Centre: a Mississauga neighbourhood centre with community programs, including for newcomers.
- Safe Centre of Peel: coordinated support for people in Peel affected by intimate partner violence.
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