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Farsi and English, in the same room
The session moves between them as your family does, so no one is arguing in a second language.
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Persian & Farsi Family Therapy in Ottawa
An orderly, bilingual city where isolation can sit quietly under the surface. Family sessions in Farsi and English, online. For families with teens, adolescents and young adults. Sessions are virtual across Ontario, in English and Farsi.
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What Brings Families In
Two sets of assumptions, one household
Very little of this work is about a single argument. It is usually about what each generation takes for granted: what respect looks like, what a parent is owed, how much of a life is a private matter, and how much of a decision belongs to the person making it. Those assumptions used to be shared by everyone in the room. Often they are not any more, and everyone involved can still be entirely reasonable.
(This page is general information, not clinical advice. A free consultation is the usual place to start.)
- Parents and adult children who love each other and cannot talk without it turning.
- A generation gap that immigration widened: one household, two sets of assumptions.
- Children who answer in English while their parents are speaking Farsi.
- Authority that worked at home and does not work here, and the grief in that.
- A teenager or young adult and a parent who love each other and cannot get through one hard subject.
- In-laws, obligation, and the question of who a decision actually belongs to.
The Approach
Structured, and in both languages
Language is part of the mechanism here, not a detail. It is ordinary for parents to think and feel in Farsi while children answer in English, and for the weight of a sentence to survive in one language and not the other. A session held only in English asks the parents to argue in their second language; only in Farsi, and it asks the same of the children. These move between both.
The work itself is practical. Emotionally focused and cognitive behavioural approaches for the conversations that keep going wrong. It is for families with teens, adolescents and young adults. The aim is a different conversation at home this week, not a new theory about your household.
Nobody is put on trial in the room.
Why NoorMinds
Four reasons families 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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For teens and young adults
Family work with teenagers, adolescents and young adults. Sessions are virtual across Ontario, in English and Farsi.
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Private, and online
No waiting room, and nowhere to be recognised arriving. Sessions from wherever you are in Ontario.
Fees
Straightforward and stated upfront
Free15-min consultation
$250Family · 60 min
$375Family · 90 min
For families with teens, adolescents and young adults. Sessions are virtual across Ontario, in English and Farsi. 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
There is no wider family here to help, and every disagreement stays between the three of us. Does that change anything?
It changes a great deal, and it is worth saying plainly rather than treating as background. Families operating without the relatives who used to absorb these conversations are carrying more with less, and adding one structured hour a week is a reasonable substitute for what is missing. Tina Abadi, RP (CRPO #13777), works in Farsi and English.
Who is family therapy for?
For families with teens, adolescents and young adults. Sessions are virtual across Ontario, in English and Farsi, with Tina Abadi, RP.
Who comes to a family session?
Whoever the work needs, and not always everyone at once. Sometimes it is two parents; sometimes a parent and an adult child; sometimes one person for several sessions before anyone else joins. Nobody is required to attend in order for the work to be useful, and nobody is put on trial in the room.
Can the session be in Farsi?
Yes, and it can move between Farsi and English as the family does. That matters more in family work than anywhere else, because it is common for parents to think in Farsi and children to answer in English, and a session that forces one language onto everyone quietly takes a side.
What kind of therapy is this?
Cognitive behavioural and emotionally focused work for families with teens, adolescents and young adults. It is structured and practical: the aim is a different conversation at home this week, not only a better understanding of an old one.
How long does this usually take?
Shorter than most people expect for a specific, nameable difficulty, and longer where a pattern has been running for years. Six to twelve sessions is a common shape for work of this kind, and it is reviewed with you rather than decided in advance.
What does it cost, and is it covered?
Family sessions are $250 for 60 minutes and $375 for 90 minutes, for families with teens, adolescents and young adults. Sessions are virtual across Ontario, in English and Farsi. A free 15-minute consultation is the place 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
One conversation, differently
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NoorMinds offers online family therapy in Farsi and English to families in Ottawa and across eastern Ontario, and throughout the province from Toronto to Windsor.
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Ottawa
Family Therapy for Ottawa families
Ottawa carries itself differently from the rest of the province: bilingual, professional, steadied by the rhythms of the federal public service. It is calmer than Toronto, and for some newcomers that calm holds a real isolation beneath the orderly surface. The Persian community here is established but much smaller than the GTA's, and a family can go a long time without being in a room where their language is the default.
Isolation concentrates everything in the household. There are fewer other adults for a teenager to be known by, fewer relatives to take the temperature down in a disagreement, and less of the ambient culture that in Iran would have carried some of the parenting without anyone noticing. Every conversation has to be had directly, by the two or three people involved, and there is no crowd to absorb a bad one.
Family sessions add a person to the room whose job is to keep it workable. Emotionally focused and cognitive behavioural approaches, for families with teens, adolescents and young adults, in Farsi, English, or both, online across Ontario.
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