Looking for a Persian or Farsi therapist without the drive from Oakville to North York? 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 run by video, so a private room at home in Oakville, a closed office door at work, or anywhere else in Ontario will do.
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:
If you live in Oakville and want to speak to a therapist in Farsi, the map is not in your favour. The GTA's Iranian community organizations, from the Iranian Canadian Congress to the Parya Trillium Foundation, are based in Toronto and York Region. From Oakville, on the GTA's western side, that is a long drive east and north, there and back, for a single hour in the middle of a working week.
Farsi-speaking families live across Halton, Oakville included, but sharing a town with them is not the same as having a private room to talk about what you are carrying. In a town where people meet through schools and workplaces, you may not want to talk about it close to home. I am Ghazal Sheikhtaheri, a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), CRPO #21300, and an Iranian immigrant who practises in both Farsi and English. People sometimes search for an "Iranian psychologist". I am a psychotherapist, not a psychologist, but I understand the wish behind that search.
Someone who moved to Oakville for work, for schools or for more room may be doing well by every visible measure and still carry something quieter: guilt toward parents in Iran, grief for a life that did not come along, worry for people still there, or the tiredness of translating yourself all day. My work is rooted in Schema Therapy and attachment- and emotion-focused approaches, looking at the early patterns, often formed in Farsi and in another country, that still shape how you strive, relate and rest.
Language matters in a specific way here. You may speak English all day at work and still find that grief, anger or tenderness only come out properly in Farsi, or that a phrase your mother used lands differently than any translation of it. Sessions can move between the two languages as needed, so you do not have to decide in advance which part of yourself gets to speak.
Distance from Iran has its own rhythm of worry. News arrives at odd hours, a parent's health changes while travel is complicated, and it is hard to concentrate on a meeting in Oakville while the family group chat lights up with something frightening. Talking about that in Farsi, with someone who does not need the background explained, can make it easier to carry.
Everything happens online, so you can start from home in Oakville. Tina Abadi, RP, also works in Farsi and English if her structured, skills-first approach suits you better. 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. If you have other questions, the page on Farsi therapy across Ontario covers consultations, cultural issues and how long therapy usually takes.
Each of these is an independent organization with no tie to NoorMinds, and Farsi speakers in Oakville may find them useful alongside or between sessions.
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