Culturally sensitive online psychotherapy for those navigating life between two worlds. Sessions in English and Farsi. Available in Scarborough 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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Scarborough has long been a first address in Canada, a place in Toronto's east where newcomers from every corner of the world have set down their suitcases and tried to make a life. It is among the most ethnically diverse parts of the country, home to large South Asian, East Asian and Caribbean communities and a growing Middle Eastern presence, and it carries the particular generosity of a landing place. Yet the same district that welcomes you can also wear you down with its long commutes and its cultural pockets spread thin across a wide and busy map.
For those who have come from Iran or anywhere else, the early years in Scarborough often hold a quiet contradiction. There is the relief of more affordable, family-oriented living, and there is the weariness of leaving home before dawn to work downtown or in healthcare, retail or logistics, returning after dark with little of yourself left over. Somewhere in that rhythm the grief of immigration waits. The friends who knew you as a child, the streets that held your earliest self, the sense of simply being understood without having to explain.
Therapy here is a space to set that weight down. We speak about identity stretched between two worlds, about family expectations that travel across distance and time zones, and about the slow, unglamorous work of becoming someone new without abandoning who you were. Ghazal Sheikhtaheri, a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), CRPO #21300, is an immigrant herself, and her approach draws on Schema Therapy alongside attachment- and emotion-focused work, attending to the deeper patterns a new life can press upon.
Because sessions are entirely virtual, the long Scarborough commute need not be one more thing to carry. Wherever you are in the district, and anywhere across Ontario, you are welcome to meet online in English or in Farsi.
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