Searching for a Persian or Farsi therapist in Oshawa? Farsi speakers are spread thin across Durham Region, so finding someone local who shares your language can be hard. 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, or to drive to North York to find someone who speaks Farsi. 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 meet from home in Oshawa, Whitby or Clarington, 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. From Oshawa, the first step is simply 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.
More answers, including what happens in the free consultation, how long therapy usually takes and how online sessions compare with meeting in an office, are on the Persian & Farsi therapy page for all of Ontario.
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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 speak Farsi in Oshawa, you may know the feeling of being one of very few. The six non-official mother tongues Durham Region highlighted from the 2021 Census were Tamil, Urdu, Tagalog, Spanish, Mandarin and Italian; Persian, which had made that list in 2016, did not. The larger Iranian communities are a long drive west, and that distance changes everyday life: fewer people who hear your accent as ordinary, fewer places to mark Nowruz or Yalda without explaining them, fewer people to talk to in the language your feelings first learned.
Distance from Iran shows up in the clock as well. Tehran is many hours ahead, so calls home happen late at night or before work, and hard news often arrives while Oshawa is asleep. Carrying that alone, without neighbours who follow the same headlines, is a particular kind of tiredness.
For some people that distance is welcome, a chance to live a little more privately. Others end up here for a job, a program or housing and feel the quiet more than they expected. Both experiences make sense, and both can be brought to therapy.
Oshawa is also a place people come to study. Ontario Tech University and Durham College share a campus in north Oshawa, and for an international student from Iran the first winters here can be lonely in ways that are hard to put into English. Your school's counselling service is worth knowing about. A Farsi-speaking therapist can sit alongside it when what you are carrying has as much to do with family, home and the news from Iran as with coursework.
Ghazal Sheikhtaheri, Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), CRPO #21300, was born and raised in Iran and works in Farsi and English. People sometimes search for an "Iranian psychologist"; Ghazal is a psychotherapist rather than a psychologist, and what she offers is culturally matched psychotherapy drawing on Schema Therapy and attachment- and emotion-focused approaches. Tina Abadi, RP, also works in Farsi and English, with a more structured, CBT-based style. 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.
Because sessions are online, living far from the GTA's larger Persian neighbourhoods doesn't narrow your options, and nobody from your community sees you walk into an office. You can join from your own home, in Farsi, English or whatever mix of the two feels natural that day. If your week is split between home in Oshawa and a job or classes somewhere else in Ontario, the sessions come with you.
These organizations are independent of NoorMinds and not affiliated with the practice; some people find them useful alongside or between sessions.
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