Culturally sensitive online psychotherapy for those navigating life between two worlds. Sessions in English and Farsi. Available in Oshawa 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:
Oshawa carries its history in its bones, the largest city in Durham Region, with deep automotive roots and the rises and falls that come with an economy tied to industry. Once defined by manufacturing, it now also leans on healthcare, education and the trades, and its university and college presence has brought a younger, more diverse population into a place long shaped by working-class life. It is more affordable than much of the GTA, home to blue-collar and student communities alike.
For an immigrant arriving in a city marked by economic ups and downs, there can be an added layer of uncertainty to the usual work of starting over. Building a new life is hard enough without the ground beneath the local economy shifting; the grief of what was left behind can be sharpened by worry about the future here. The expectations of family across distance and time zones, the loneliness of being new where your history is not widely shared, the question of who you are between two worlds, all of these deserve room.
Therapy offers that room. Together we attend to immigration grief, to identity held between cultures, and to the resilience and weariness both that rebuilding a self can bring. Ghazal Sheikhtaheri, a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), CRPO #21300, understands this terrain as an immigrant herself, working through Schema Therapy and attachment- and emotion-focused methods.
All sessions are virtual, so wherever you are in Oshawa, and anywhere in Ontario, you are welcome to meet online in English or in Farsi, in the language that lets you feel most understood.
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