Searching for a Persian or Farsi therapist without a drive across the GTA from Ajax? Work with someone you don’t have to explain your culture, family pressure, or immigration grief to, in English or Farsi فارسی, online across Ontario. Three Farsi-speaking therapists, one practice.
Tina and Roya are booking now. Ghazal is booking by waitlist (3–4 weeks).
Ghazal, Tina and Roya all work in Farsi, so nothing gets lost in translation. Ghazal is also an Iranian immigrant herself: she knows the weight of family expectations, cultural nuance, immigration grief, and living between two worlds from the inside.
Ghazal brings over ten years of clinical experience, graduate training in both Iran and Canada, and advanced schema therapy training. Tina brings structured, skills-first CBT, and Roya brings ACT, DBT and a focus on newcomers. All three bring warmth and rigour to every session.
Anxiety, overthinking, trauma, relationship pain, burnout, immigration stress, identity conflict, low self-worth, guilt, and boundaries that feel impossible.
Start with a free 15-minute consultation with Ghazal, Tina or Roya. No pressure. Ask questions, get a feel for how your therapist works, and decide if the fit feels right before committing.
You don't need to have it all figured out. Start with a conversation.
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Speaking Farsi isn't the same as understanding Iranian life. Finding a therapist who actually gets what it means to grow up Iranian is something different: the layered expectations, the specific way silence is used, the pressure to appear strong, the way mental health has historically been discussed (or not discussed) in Persian families.
Ghazal trained in both Iran and Canada. She completed her first graduate degree in Clinical Psychology at Kharazmi University in Tehran, then immigrated to Canada for further training at Yorkville University. That path isn't just a credential. Learn more about Ghazal
For women, the expectation is often to manage inwardly, to be the steady person in the family even when you are not steady at all. Therapy can feel like an admission of failure, something you keep private even from close relatives.
For men, the pressure is different but just as real. Talking about anxiety, grief, or emotional struggle can feel incompatible with how strength has been defined. Many arrive at therapy having spent years convincing themselves that what they were feeling wasn't serious enough to warrant help.
These patterns are not weaknesses. They are cultural inheritances, and Ghazal understands them from the inside, not from a textbook.
Sessions are in Farsi, English, or a natural mix of both, because sometimes the right word only exists in one language.
There is no issue too culturally specific. Sessions are confidential, separate from your family, your community, and anyone else in your life.
You don't have to explain your culture before real work begins. Ghazal's training spans both Iranian and Canadian psychological frameworks. She understands how shame, honour, and loyalty operate differently in Iranian families, and how immigration can simultaneously feel like freedom and like a profound rupture, a grief rarely acknowledged because it doesn't look like the grief people recognize.
If you are ready to start, or even just ready to have a first conversation, the consultation is free. Call (647) 699-5142, message on WhatsApp, or book directly below.
Choose a time in Jane, ask your questions, and get a feel for whether working together feels right.
Sessions are online and available anywhere in Ontario, from Ajax and the rest of Durham Region to Toronto and beyond.
Together you work beneath surface symptoms to understand patterns, reduce suffering, and build a steadier, more grounded life.
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
Seen the pricing? The free consultation costs nothing, and many insurance plans reimburse full sessions. The hardest part is usually just sending that first message, and from Ajax there is no drive to plan around.
Or call (647) 699-5142 · WhatsApp · Email
Many extended health plans in Canada cover psychotherapy by a Registered Psychotherapist. Ghazal holds the Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) designation, so please confirm your plan covers it. Clients receive receipts after sessions for reimbursement.
Booking is simple through Jane. You can start with a free consultation, then schedule full sessions only if the fit feels right.
An Iranian immigrant herself, with over ten years of clinical experience. Schema therapy and psychodynamic work for long-standing patterns, immigration grief and family pressure.
Structured, skills-first CBT for anxiety, ADHD, sleep and life transitions, and Emotionally Focused Therapy for couples.
Warm, culturally responsive care: CBT, ACT and DBT for anxiety, depression, grief and the emotional work of settling in a new country, and EFT for couples.
Ghazal is currently booking by waitlist (3–4 weeks). Tina and Roya are accepting new clients.
Pick a time in Jane App that works for you. No intake forms, no questionnaires. Just choose a slot.
Share what's bringing you here. Ask Ghazal, Tina or Roya anything. No pressure to commit. This call exists to help you decide, nothing more.
If it feels right, book your first full session. If not, there's no follow-up, no awkwardness, no commitment of any kind.
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NoorMinds offers virtual Persian and Farsi-speaking (Iranian) therapy to communities throughout Ontario. Select your city to learn more:
Look for a therapist who speaks Farsi close to Ajax and the options can be limited. The town's Persian-speaking community is modest, and much of the GTA's Iranian community life sits on the other side of Toronto, along the stretch of Yonge Street that runs from Highway 401 north through Willowdale and Thornhill into Richmond Hill. From Ajax, getting there means the 401 across most of the city. For a weekly appointment, that drive is often the difference between starting therapy and putting it off for another year. Durham Region's own language figures show how thinly spread Persian speakers are here: Persian was among the region's more common non-official mother tongues in 2016, but by 2021 it had dropped out of the top six, behind Tamil, Urdu, Tagalog, Spanish, Mandarin and Italian.
Online sessions remove that obstacle. You can meet Ghazal Sheikhtaheri, Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), CRPO #21300, Tina Abadi, RP, or Roya Dadollahi Sarab, RP, from a quiet room at home, in Farsi, English or the mix you actually speak. People sometimes search for an "Iranian psychologist"; Ghazal's accurate title is Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), and what she offers is psychotherapy with someone who already knows the culture you are describing: family expectations that follow you across an ocean, ta’arof, the pressure to look fine, the grief of watching Iran from far away.
A small community has another side: people know each other. It is natural to worry about running into your therapist at a gathering, or about word of your sessions reaching relatives. Online therapy changes that. There is no waiting room and no car parked outside an office; you log in from home, and what you say is protected by the confidentiality standards of the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario, with the limits the law requires explained at the start.
The reasons people reach out from Ajax are the reasons Iranians seek therapy anywhere: anxiety that will not settle, a marriage under strain, guilt about parents left behind, news from Iran that makes sleep impossible, or the tiring sense of being neither fully Iranian nor fully Canadian. What can differ in a smaller community is how long people wait, because no one nearby seems likely to understand. If that sounds familiar, the first conversation is free and carries no obligation.
Ajax's recent arrivals include people from Afghanistan, one of the three most common birthplaces among immigrants who settled in the town between 2016 and 2021. Many Afghans speak Dari, which is close to Iranian Farsi, while others speak Pashto or another language. If Dari is your language, Farsi sessions may feel natural or may not; the free 15-minute consultation is the place to find out, with no obligation either way. More general questions are answered on the Ontario Farsi therapy page.
None of these organizations is affiliated with NoorMinds; they are independent groups that people in Ajax may find useful alongside or between sessions.
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