Culturally sensitive online psychotherapy for those navigating life between two worlds. Sessions in English and Farsi. Available in Pickering 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:
Pickering rests on the shore of Lake Ontario in Durham Region, just east of Toronto, a suburban and increasingly diverse city where family life unfolds within sight of the water. Its working life is tied to energy, retail and the public sector, and like much of the region it is marked by heavy commuting into Toronto, so that the calm of lakeside living often sits alongside the strain of long days spent on the road.
For newcomers here, that contrast can be telling. The lake and the suburban quiet promise peace, yet the commute and the demands of establishing yourself leave little space to attend to all that immigration has stirred. The grief of leaving home, the negotiation between two worlds, the expectations that arrive from family across great distance and many time zones, the particular loneliness of building a life where your story is not widely known, these can wait a long while for a hearing.
Therapy is where that hearing can happen. Together we make room for immigration grief, for an identity lived between cultures, and for the slow rebuilding of self that starting over requires. Ghazal Sheikhtaheri is an immigrant herself, a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), CRPO #21300, drawing on Schema Therapy and attachment- and emotion-focused work to reach what lies beneath daily coping.
Because sessions are entirely online, the strain of the commute need not extend to seeking support, and care can meet you in the calm of your own home by the lake. From anywhere in Pickering, and anywhere in Ontario, you are welcome to meet in the language closest to you, whether English or Farsi.
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