Culturally sensitive online psychotherapy for those navigating life between two worlds. Sessions in English and Farsi. Available in Toronto 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:
There are few places where so many lives have begun again as in Toronto, where more than half of those you pass on the street were born somewhere else. To arrive here is to join one of the largest gatherings of newcomers in the world, and yet the city has a way of holding you at arm's length even as it surrounds you. The job market is fast and costly, the days long, the distances great, and the sense of belonging arrives more slowly than the bills do. Many people describe feeling stimulated and unmoored in the same breath.
For Persian-speaking newcomers there is a particular paradox here. Toronto holds one of the largest Iranian diaspora communities in North America, much of it gathered in the north of the city, around North York and Willowdale. The community exists, yet it is dispersed across a sprawling, transit-dependent place, so that knowing your people are somewhere in this city is not the same as feeling held by them on an ordinary evening. The loneliness of immigration is rarely the absence of others. It is more often the ache of being among many and recognised by few.
In this work we make room for that ache rather than rushing past it. We speak about immigration grief, about the version of yourself you left at the airport, about parents and siblings whose voices reach you across an ocean, and about the quiet labour of building a self in a culture that does not yet know your history. Ghazal Sheikhtaheri is an Iranian immigrant herself, a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), CRPO #21300, drawing on both Schema Therapy and an attachment- and emotion-focused way of listening.
Sessions are held entirely online, so the distances of Toronto need not stand between you and care. From anywhere in the city, and anywhere in Ontario, you are welcome to meet in whichever language your story most wants to be told, English or Farsi.
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