Culturally sensitive online psychotherapy for those navigating life between two worlds. Sessions in English and Farsi. Available in Thornhill 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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Thornhill straddles Markham and Vaughan just north of Toronto, an established and culturally rich community where the Iranian and Persian presence is strong and everyday. Here Persian language, food and culture have a vivid, ordinary place in the life of the streets, alongside a significant Jewish community, held together by tight networks and a deeply family-centred way of living. For Persian-speaking newcomers, it can feel like a place where one is already, in some sense, known.
Yet belonging to a close community and feeling at peace within yourself are not the same thing. The very tightness of these networks can make it harder to admit how much you are still grieving, still negotiating between the expectations carried from home and the person you are becoming here. There can be a quiet pressure to appear settled, to seem as rooted as the community around you, even while an inner part of you remains in transit, missing what was left behind and unsure where exactly you now belong.
Therapy is a confidential space outside those networks where the whole of that experience can be spoken. Together we tend to immigration grief, to identity stretched between two worlds, and to the work of rebuilding a self after starting over. Ghazal Sheikhtaheri, a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), CRPO #21300, understands this from within as an immigrant herself, working through Schema Therapy and attachment- and emotion-focused approaches.
All sessions are virtual, offering privacy as well as ease. Wherever you are in Thornhill, and anywhere in Ontario, you are welcome to meet online in English or in Farsi.
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