Looking for a Farsi-speaking therapist in Thornhill? Work with someone you don’t have to explain your culture, family pressure, or immigration grief to, in English or Farsi فارسی. Sessions are online, so your therapist sits outside your neighbourhood’s circles but inside your language. 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, and you can say it in 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 the only place you need to be is a quiet room at home, in Thornhill or 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:
Thornhill is part of the Yonge Street corridor where Persian life in the Toronto area is especially visible, but it is not the densest part of it. That distinction belongs to Willowdale, between Finch and Steeles just south of Thornhill, and to Richmond Hill to the north, where 19,365 residents (10.3%) named Persian as their mother tongue in 2021. Thornhill sits between the two: close to Persian businesses and community organizations, and at the same time a mixed place where Farsi is one language among several.
Being close to community is not the same as having somewhere to talk. The Iranian Women's Organization of Ontario, the Women's Centre of York Region's Iranian-Canadian programs and the CHATS program for Iranian seniors in Richmond Hill all do valuable work: company, information, a sense of belonging. Psychotherapy offers something else: a confidential hour of your own, in the language your feelings live in, with someone who is not part of your social world and whom you will not run into at the next community gathering.
Where Persian businesses are part of everyday errands, keeping therapy separate from the rest of daily life is a reasonable wish, and online sessions make it simple. You choose the room, the time and what you share, and nothing about the appointment is visible to anyone who knows you.
Some of what Farsi speakers here bring is intergenerational: parents who came from Iran raising children born in Canada and feeling the distance between Persian at home and English everywhere else, or adult children caught between a parent's hopes and their own life. Others arrived as students or young adults and now carry the grief of watching Iran from far away, or the guilt of having disappointed people who sacrificed for them.
Ghazal Sheikhtaheri, Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), CRPO #21300, was born and raised in Iran, completed her first graduate degree there and continued her training in Canada, and grounds her work in Schema Therapy. Tina Abadi, RP, works in a structured CBT style focused on skills. Roya Dadollahi Sarab, RP, uses CBT, ACT and DBT skills, with a focus on newcomers and settling in. All three therapists work in Farsi, English or a mix, so you never have to translate a feeling before you can explore it.
Confidentiality matters, especially where families know each other. Sessions follow the confidentiality standards of the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario, and the legal limits are explained at the start; they are also online, so it makes no difference whether you live near Bathurst or near Yonge. You can begin with a free 15-minute call with Ghazal, Tina or Roya.
Independent organizations, not affiliated with NoorMinds, that Farsi speakers around Thornhill can turn to alongside or between sessions.
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