Searching for a Persian or Farsi therapist in Toronto, whether you live off Yonge in the north end or in Scarborough, Etobicoke or downtown? 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, from wherever you are in Toronto. 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 and available anywhere in Toronto, from Etobicoke to Scarborough, and in communities across 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:
Many people know the stretch of Yonge Street nicknamed Tehranto, running north from Highway 401 through Willowdale toward Steeles and beyond, with its bakeries, grocers and bookshops. It is a real centre of Persian life. But Toronto is large: 2.79 million people in the 2021 Census, in a city that has included North York, Scarborough, Etobicoke, York and East York since the 1998 amalgamation. Iranian Persian ranked eighth among Torontonians' mother tongues that year, with 34,575 speakers, and not all of them live near Yonge.
Living near the corridor, or driving up for groceries on a weekend, gives you the language in daily life. It does not necessarily give you somewhere to say the things you have never said aloud: about a marriage, a parent, a loss, or the version of yourself that stayed behind in Iran. Community and psychotherapy do different jobs. Some people also prefer that their therapist sits outside their social circle altogether, and an online practice keeps the two apart. For others the community is exactly where they draw strength, and its cultural events and organizations become part of what helps; therapy can work with that too.
What people bring is often shaped by the city itself. Rent that leaves little room to breathe, a job in English all day and feelings that only arrive in Farsi at night, parents getting older in Tehran or Shiraz while you are here, calls home across a time difference wide enough that news tends to arrive at midnight or just before work, and a first winter that lasts longer than expected. Students and people on temporary permits add the weight of waiting on decisions they cannot control. None of this is unusual, and none of it has to be translated before it can be talked about.
Ghazal Sheikhtaheri, Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), CRPO #21300, was born and raised in Iran and trained in Tehran and in Canada. She works with Schema Therapy and attachment- and emotion-focused approaches, which look underneath long-standing patterns such as perfectionism, guilt, and the pull between obligation and a life of your own. Tina Abadi, RP, also works in Farsi and English, with a structured 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. Three Farsi-speaking therapists means you can choose a way of working without giving up the language.
Because sessions are online, it does not matter whether you are in a condo near Union Station, a house in Scarborough or an apartment in Etobicoke. You can speak Farsi, English or both, and switch when a word only exists in one of them. The free 15-minute consultation is a chance to ask anything before you decide. General questions about Farsi therapy, such as what the consultation involves and how long therapy takes, are answered on the Ontario Farsi therapy page.
None of these community organizations is affiliated with NoorMinds; they are independent, and some clients find them useful alongside or between sessions.
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