Culturally sensitive online psychotherapy for those navigating life between two worlds. Sessions in English and Farsi. Available in North York 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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Walk along parts of Yonge Street through Willowdale and you can hear Farsi spoken as easily as English, see Persian groceries and restaurants, and feel something close to home folded into the heart of North York. This northern district of Toronto has become a true hub of Iranian and Persian-speaking life in the GTA, a place where the culture is not a memory to be guarded but a living, daily presence. For many newcomers, that nearness is a comfort that is hard to overstate.
And yet proximity to one's community is not the same as peace within oneself. You can live among Persian signs and familiar foods and still wake to the disorientation of immigration, still feel the pull between the expectations carried from home and the unfamiliar shape of a life lived in high-rises and along the subway line. Sometimes being so close to the culture you left makes the distance from the people you left sharper, not softer. The phone calls home, the holidays observed across time zones, the parents growing older far away.
This is the terrain we tend together. We make space for immigration grief, for the self that feels split between two worlds, and for the loneliness that can sit quietly beneath even a busy, connected life. Ghazal Sheikhtaheri is an Iranian immigrant and a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), CRPO #21300. Her work is grounded in Schema Therapy and in attachment- and emotion-focused approaches, attentive to the patterns formed long before you ever boarded a plane.
Sessions take place online, so wherever you are in North York, and anywhere in Ontario, you can meet in the language that feels most like yourself, whether that is English or Farsi.
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