Culturally sensitive online psychotherapy for those navigating life between two worlds. Sessions in English and Farsi. Available in Burlington 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:
Burlington rests on the lake between Hamilton and Oakville, an established, increasingly diverse and family-oriented city often named among the best places to live in Canada. Comfort, though, is not the same as ease. Many residents commute along the QEW corridor, and for newcomers who have arrived into this settled, prosperous life, there can be a private dissonance between how good things look and how unmoored you still feel within.
Ghazal Sheikhtaheri, a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) registered with the CRPO, came to Canada as an immigrant from Iran. She knows that a beautiful, comfortable life can still hold deep grief, the ache of distance from family, the quiet loneliness of building yourself anew where no one shares your earliest memories. She offers a space where the gap between appearance and feeling can finally be spoken.
Her work brings together Schema Therapy with attachment- and emotion-focused methods, tracing the patterns laid down long ago that immigration tends to reawaken, and tending to the emotions that often go unattended beneath a capable surface. This is unhurried, depth-oriented work, less concerned with looking settled than with truly feeling at home in your own life. When the days are spent keeping a comfortable life running smoothly, it is easy to lose touch with what you actually feel, and this is a place to find your way back to it.
Ghazal practises virtually, serving Burlington and anywhere in Ontario, in both English and Farsi, so the language closest to your heart is always welcome here.
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