Culturally sensitive online psychotherapy for those navigating life between two worlds. Sessions in English and Farsi. Available in Newmarket 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:
Newmarket keeps a small-town feel within reach of the GTA, a historic northern York Region town with a charming Main Street and a quieter, family-oriented pace. It is predominantly suburban, with a newcomer population that is growing and increasingly diverse, and many residents commute south into the city while keeping their lives anchored here, in something gentler than the metropolis to the south.
For an immigrant settling somewhere like this, the quiet can be both a balm and a challenge. There may be fewer of your own people nearby, less of the familiar language and food close at hand, and so the work of holding onto who you were happens more inwardly. The grief of leaving home, the expectations that reach you from family across distance and time zones, the loneliness of building a life where your history is not widely shared, these can feel especially private in a place this calm.
Therapy offers companionship in that inner work. Together we make room for identity lived between two worlds and for the patient task of rebuilding a self after starting over. Ghazal Sheikhtaheri is an immigrant herself, a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), CRPO #21300, and her practice draws on Schema Therapy and on attachment- and emotion-focused methods that listen beneath the surface.
Because everything is offered online, distance from a larger community need not mean distance from care, and the quiet of a smaller town need not leave you to carry these things alone. From anywhere in Newmarket, and anywhere in Ontario, you are welcome to meet in the language that feels most like home, whether English or Farsi.
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