Looking for a Persian or Farsi therapist in Newmarket without a trip down Yonge Street? Work with someone you don’t have to explain your culture, family pressure, or immigration grief to, in English or Farsi فارسی, online from home. 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, so you can join from home in Newmarket, from a break at work, or from anywhere else in Ontario.
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.
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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:
Head south on Yonge Street from Newmarket, past Aurora, and you reach Richmond Hill, where about 10 per cent of residents gave Persian as their mother tongue in the 2021 Census. Newmarket has Iranian families of its own, but most local services run in English, and that changes what it is like to go looking for help.
Some people find the distance suits them. A therapist from outside the close circles of Richmond Hill or Thornhill means no chance of meeting your counsellor at a Nowruz party or a friend's wedding, and no worry about who knows whom. Others simply want care in their first language without giving up an evening to the drive. Either way the need is the same: to talk about family pressure, immigration loss or who you are becoming without translating your whole inner world into English first.
What people bring is as varied as the community itself. Some arrived decades ago and are only now, with children grown, feeling the full weight of what they left. Some came more recently, as students or skilled workers, and are carrying exams, credential battles and worry about family in Iran all at once. Some were born in Canada and feel caught between their parents' expectations and their own lives. The common thread is wanting to be understood without a preface.
Ghazal Sheikhtaheri is a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), CRPO #21300, who was born and raised in Iran and trained in both Tehran and Canada. Some people search for an "Iranian psychologist"; what she offers is psychotherapy in Farsi and English, grounded in Schema Therapy and attachment- and emotion-focused work. Tina Abadi, RP, also works in Farsi and English, with a structured, skills-first CBT approach. Roya Dadollahi Sarab, RP, also works in Farsi and English and uses CBT, ACT and DBT skills, with a focus on newcomers and settling in, so you can choose the style that suits you.
Sessions are online, so where you live in Newmarket makes no difference to the care you can reach. If community connection is part of what you are missing, the York Region and GTA organizations below run Farsi-language programs that can sit alongside therapy. The general questions people ask before starting, from what happens in the free consultation to how long therapy takes, are answered on the Ontario-wide Farsi therapy page.
None of these community organizations is part of NoorMinds or affiliated with it; each offers community or practical help that can complement therapy.
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