Looking for a Farsi-speaking therapist without the drive to Richmond Hill or North York? Online sessions for people in Vaughan 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, and you don't need to find a Farsi speaker within driving distance. 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 an hour of therapy is an hour, with no drive across York Region on either side of it.
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:
About one Vaughan resident in 25 belonged to the census group Statistics Canada calls West Asian in 2021, the group that includes people of Iranian background, and that group had grown by roughly 48% since 2016. It is a real and growing community, but a dispersed one. The better-known centres of Persian life in the region lie to the east, in Richmond Hill and along Yonge Street, so for Farsi speakers in Vaughan the services they know may be a drive away, and a weekly appointment becomes one more trip to fit around work and family.
Community organizations do valuable work for Farsi speakers across York Region. The Iranian Women's Organization of Ontario runs Farsi-language support groups and wellness workshops, and the Women's Centre of York Region offers programs for Iranian-Canadian newcomers, youth and seniors. Therapy offers something different: a confidential hour, one to one, where you can talk about a marriage, a parent, a loss or a fear without wondering who else in the room knows your family.
What people bring is rarely only about Vaughan. It is the grief of leaving Iran, or of watching it from far away; the guilt of not meeting a family's expectations; the tiredness of being Iranian at home and Canadian at work. Ghazal Sheikhtaheri, Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), CRPO #21300, was born in Iran, trained there and in Canada, and works through Schema Therapy and relational methods. Tina Abadi, RP, offers structured, skills-first CBT. Roya Dadollahi Sarab, RP, uses CBT, ACT and DBT skills, with a focus on newcomers and settling in. All three work in Farsi and English, so you can use whichever language the feeling lives in.
If you spend your working day presenting yourself carefully in English, in a meeting, on a site, with a client, the effort itself can leave you too tired at night to notice what you feel. In Farsi some things arrive faster, and some only arrive at all. Therapy is a place where you do not have to translate yourself first, and where a proverb your mother used, or a word with no English equivalent, can be the thing that opens a session.
Distance cuts the other way too. Parents and siblings may still be in Iran, and news from there can arrive on your phone in the middle of a Vaughan workday, with no one nearby who knows why you have gone quiet. Holding worry for people far away while keeping up a life here is a weight many people with family in Iran know well, and it deserves somewhere it can be said in the language it happens in.
Because sessions are online, you can join from a quiet room at home after the children are asleep, or from anywhere else in Ontario where you have privacy. Start with a free 15-minute consultation with any of the three.
These are independent organizations, not affiliated with NoorMinds, that Farsi speakers in York Region can use alongside or between sessions.
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