Searching for a Persian or Farsi therapist in Guelph? Whether you came here to study, research or work, find 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, so you can meet from home in Guelph, or from wherever in the province you happen to be that week.
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.
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:
My name is Ghazal Sheikhtaheri, a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), CRPO #21300. I was born and raised in Iran, came to Canada to continue my training, and I work in Farsi and English. People sometimes search for an "Iranian psychologist" when what they want is someone who will understand them without a long explanation. I am a psychotherapist, not a psychologist, and what I can offer is that understanding: of family expectations, of leaving, of living between two languages.
Among Farsi speakers in Guelph are students and researchers who came here to study, often on their own, often with a family in Iran quietly counting on them to succeed. Graduate work already brings long hours and uncertain funding. Add the conditions of a study permit, the cost of international tuition, and news from home that can turn a whole week upside down, and the pressure has nowhere to go. It is hard to explain to a supervisor, in English, why you cannot concentrate when your parents are frightened.
In a smaller city you may also be the only Iranian in your department, your lab or your street. That can bring a kind of freedom, away from the watchful eyes of a larger community, and a kind of loneliness at the same time, with no one nearby who would understand a joke, a proverb or a silence without explanation.
Guelph is also home to established mental health services. Homewood Health Centre, a specialty mental health and addiction hospital that has been part of the city since 1883, and CMHA Waterloo Wellington provide specialized and crisis care for the area. Farsi-language psychotherapy online does not replace that care. It can sit beside it, as a place to think and feel in the language in which many of your earliest patterns were formed.
My work draws on Schema Therapy and attachment- and emotion-focused methods. We look at the beliefs that drive you, such as having to succeed to be worth anything, or not being allowed to need help, and at how they took shape long before you arrived in Canada. There is room, too, for the quieter losses: missing a sibling’s wedding, a grandparent’s last years, a Nowruz table you could only see on a screen.
The Iranian community in Guelph is small, and Farsi-speaking therapy may be hard to find locally. Every session is online, so you can begin from your own room, without travelling to Toronto and without a waiting room. I welcome clients across Guelph and anywhere in Ontario, in English and Farsi.
The organizations here are independent and have no affiliation with NoorMinds; you may find them useful alongside sessions or between them.
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