Searching for a Persian or Farsi therapist in Windsor? Work with someone you don’t have to explain your culture, family pressure, or immigration grief to, in Farsi فارسی or English, online from anywhere in Windsor-Essex and 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. Whether you are new to Windsor or have raised a family here, you can speak in the language your feelings first learned. Ghazal is also an Iranian immigrant herself, and knows family expectations and immigration grief 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 video consultation with Ghazal, Tina or Roya, from home in Windsor. 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.
Wherever you are in Windsor-Essex, and whether you are ready to start or only ready to talk, 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 or any private room in Windsor, Essex County or elsewhere in Ontario, with no drive to the GTA.
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. Writing that first message, in Farsi or English, is usually the hardest step.
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.
General questions about Farsi therapy, such as what happens in the free consultation or how long therapy lasts, are answered on the Persian & Farsi therapy in Ontario page.
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NoorMinds offers virtual Persian and Farsi-speaking (Iranian) therapy to communities throughout Ontario. Select your city to learn more:
Windsor's large Middle Eastern community is mainly Arab and Arabic-speaking. Arab residents were 9.4 per cent of Windsor in 2021, the largest racialized group in the city. Farsi is a different language, and Iranians are a much smaller group: the census category that counts Iranians together with Afghans, Turks and others was about 1.8 per cent of residents, 3,975 people. If Farsi is the language you think and feel in, living in a diverse city does not always mean being understood in your own words.
I am Ghazal Sheikhtaheri, a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), CRPO #21300. I came to Canada from Iran, and I offer therapy in Farsi and English. I don't work in Arabic, though anyone comfortable in English is welcome, whatever their background. People sometimes search for an "Iranian psychologist", so I want to be accurate: I am a psychotherapist, not a psychologist. What I bring is an understanding, from the inside, of Iranian family life, the weight of expectations, the particular grief of watching Iran from a distance, and the fatigue of translating yourself every day.
You might have come to Windsor to study, to work in engineering or health care, or to join family, and found yourself the only Iranian in your program or workplace. You might have arrived years ago and raised children who now answer you in English. The settlement agencies here help with the practical side of life in Canada. My work is with the inner side: Schema Therapy and attachment- and emotion-focused approaches that look at patterns formed early, often in Farsi, which still shape how you love, worry and rest.
Being part of a small community has its own weight. When everyone seems to know everyone, admitting you are struggling can feel risky, and it can seem as if news travels quickly between families here and relatives back home. Therapy is a confidential space outside that circle, within the legal limits I explain at the start, where you can say what you have not been able to say to anyone else.
Some Iranians in Windsor build close friendships with neighbours and colleagues from many backgrounds and find real kinship there, while still missing the particular humour, expressions and references of home. Both things can be true. Therapy in Farsi is not about retreating from the wider community; it is about having one place where nothing needs translating, including the feelings you have never said out loud in any language.
Sessions take place by video, from your home or any private space in Windsor or elsewhere in Ontario, so the long drive east to the GTA never has to be part of getting help, and there is no waiting room where you might meet someone you know. If you would like a structured, skills-first approach, Tina Abadi, RP, also works in both languages. 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.
Independent Windsor-Essex services, not affiliated with NoorMinds, that Farsi speakers and other newcomers may find useful alongside or between sessions.
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