Culturally sensitive online psychotherapy for those navigating life between two worlds. Sessions in English and Farsi. Available in Ajax and across Ontario.
Ontario is home to one of the largest immigrant populations in the world — nearly a third of residents were born outside Canada, settling everywhere from downtown Toronto and the surrounding GTA to Ottawa, Hamilton, the Waterloo Region, London, and smaller communities throughout the province. And yet the experience of being an immigrant here often feels isolating. Community is harder to find than the statistics suggest. The pressure to establish yourself financially in one of Canada's most expensive provinces can crowd out the emotional work of settling in. Many newcomers across Ontario spend years adapting on the outside while quietly struggling on the inside.
Ghazal immigrated to Canada from Iran and has worked with immigrants and refugees from all over the world — the Middle East, South Asia, East Africa, Latin America, Eastern Europe, and beyond. She doesn't just understand the theory — she knows the loneliness of starting over, the grief of distance, and the quiet courage it takes to build a new life.
Therapy that respects your cultural background, family values, and the complexity of navigating two worlds — without pathologizing your experience.
Sessions in English and Farsi (فارسی), or a mix of both. Express yourself in whichever language feels right.
Schema therapy, CBT, and emotion-focused techniques — grounded in research and tailored to your unique story.
Talk about what brought you here, ask questions, and see if it feels right. No pressure.
Together, we'll identify what's weighing on you most and build a path forward using proven therapeutic approaches.
60-minute online sessions from anywhere in Ontario. Consistent, confidential, flexible.
Insurance receipts provided — most extended health plans in Canada cover sessions with a Registered Psychotherapist.
Free 15-minute consultation available. Receipts provided after each session for submission to your extended health insurance plan.
Book a free 15-minute consultation — no commitment, no pressure.
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NoorMinds provides virtual therapy for immigrants to residents throughout Ontario. Select your city to learn more:
Ajax sits along the lake in Durham Region, east of Toronto, an affordable and family-oriented town where many people have found room to build a life that the city's prices put out of reach. It is diverse and growing, with significant South Asian, Caribbean and other newcomer communities, and its working life leans toward manufacturing, logistics and the public sector, with long commutes west toward Toronto folded into many days.
In a town shaped by those commutes, the emotional weight of immigration often travels quietly alongside the practical one. You leave early and return late, holding down the work that makes the life here possible, and somewhere in between sits the grief that does not fit on a schedule. The pull between two worlds, the expectations of family reaching across oceans and time zones, the loneliness of starting over where few share your particular history, all of it asks for a place to be felt rather than managed.
That is what therapy can offer. Together we tend to immigration grief, to identity held between cultures, and to the long work of rebuilding a self after everything familiar was left behind. Ghazal Sheikhtaheri, a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), CRPO #21300, knows this passage as an immigrant herself, and she works through Schema Therapy and attachment- and emotion-focused approaches attentive to deeper patterns.
Since all sessions are virtual, the long Ajax commute need not be one more obstacle to care, and support can reach you in whatever hour the day leaves open. Wherever you are in town, and anywhere in Ontario, you are welcome to meet online in English or in Farsi.
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