Looking for a Persian or Farsi therapist on Toronto’s east side? From Scarborough, work online with someone you don’t have to explain your culture, family pressure, or immigration grief to, in English or Farsi فارسی. 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 anywhere in Scarborough, or from anywhere else in Ontario, without a trip across the city.
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 are Iranian and living in Scarborough, you may know the small search that comes before any appointment: is there anyone on this side of the city who speaks Farsi? Much of Toronto's Farsi-language community life is based to the west. The Iranian Women's Organization of Ontario, a charity founded in 1989 to support Farsi-speaking women and families, is in North York, west of Scarborough, and the stretch of Yonge Street that people think of as the city's Persian hub is further west again.
That geography shapes what people carry and for how long. Grief for a country left behind, worry for family still in Iran, the push and pull between Persian expectations and a Canadian workplace: these tend to wait for a conversation in your own language, and when that conversation is a long trip away it keeps being postponed. For some people from Afghanistan whose first language is Dari, sessions in Farsi can also be a workable fit, which is worth talking through honestly in a free consultation.
Sometimes the person who most needs a Farsi-speaking therapist is a parent: an older relative who came to Scarborough to be near grandchildren and now spends long days at home with no one to talk to in their own language. Sometimes it is you, when the news from Iran turns frightening and the distance suddenly feels sharper. In either case, the difference between explaining yourself in a second language and simply speaking can decide whether the conversation happens at all. Meeting online also removes smaller worries: being seen walking into an office by someone you know, or riding the subway home late after an emotional hour.
Ghazal Sheikhtaheri is a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), CRPO #21300, born in Iran and trained in both Tehran and Canada. People sometimes search for an "Iranian psychologist"; what she offers is psychotherapy in Farsi or English with someone who already knows the cultural ground, using Schema Therapy with attachment- and emotion-focused work to reach the roots of long-standing patterns. Tina Abadi, RP, also works in both languages, 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.
Sessions are online only, so the distance between Scarborough and the rest of Toronto's Persian community stops being a reason to wait. You can meet from home, whether that is in Agincourt or West Hill, in whichever language a feeling lives in. If something acute happens between sessions, the organizations below and Toronto's crisis services are there alongside therapy, not instead of it.
These are independent organizations, not affiliated with NoorMinds, that Farsi speakers in Scarborough may find useful alongside or between sessions.
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