Culturally sensitive online psychotherapy for those navigating life between two worlds. Sessions in English and Farsi. Available in Hamilton 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:
Hamilton has always been a city of reinvention. Its steel and industrial past is giving way to healthcare, education and a restless arts scene, and many who were priced out of Toronto have made new lives along its streets. For newcomers, this changing, affordable, strongly self-defined city can feel welcoming and uncertain at once, a place still deciding what it will become, much as you are.
Ghazal Sheikhtaheri is a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), registered with the CRPO, and she arrived in Canada as an immigrant from Iran. She brings a personal understanding of what it means to rebuild a self after starting over, to live with the grief of leaving and the labour of belonging somewhere new. She listens for the things newcomers often keep to themselves, the homesickness folded into busyness, the loneliness that hides behind getting on with it.
Her work weaves Schema Therapy together with attachment- and emotion-focused approaches, gently exploring the patterns that took shape in another time and place and now press on your relationships and your sense of who you are. In a city defined by transition, where so many around you are also remaking their lives, there is room here to honour what you have left behind while making peace with who you are becoming. The work moves at the pace of trust, not the pace of the city around it.
Sessions are held online, serving Hamilton and anywhere in Ontario, in English and Farsi, so you can be understood not only in words but in the world those words come from.
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