Culturally sensitive online psychotherapy for those navigating life between two worlds. Sessions in English and Farsi. Available in St. Catharines 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:
St. Catharines is the garden city at the heart of Niagara's wine country, a relaxed place set between the lake and the escarpment, the largest city in the region. Diverse for its size, it draws students to Brock and a growing number of newcomers to its unhurried streets. Yet a gentle pace can leave the inner work of resettlement strangely visible, the quiet loneliness of building a life somewhere your past has no roots.
Ghazal Sheikhtaheri is a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) with the CRPO, and she immigrated to Canada from Iran. She understands the grief that immigration carries, the identity caught between two worlds, the way you can be physically settled and yet still feel adrift. She listens for what newcomers so often keep folded away, the longing for what was left behind, the strain of expectations sent from far away.
Her approach draws on Schema Therapy together with attachment- and emotion-focused work, following the deep patterns that began long before the move and now shape your sense of who you are. In a city that invites you to slow down, this is a space to attend to yourself with the same patience, and to begin rebuilding from the inside. Resettlement is rarely a single act; it is a long unfolding, and there is room here to honour each season of that change rather than rushing toward a finish line that keeps moving.
Sessions are held entirely online, available in St. Catharines and across Ontario, in English and Farsi, so you can speak about your life in the language that holds it most truly.
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