Culturally sensitive online psychotherapy for those navigating life between two worlds. Sessions in English and Farsi. Available in Windsor 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.
Book a Free ConsultationOr call (647) 699-5142
NoorMinds provides virtual therapy for immigrants to residents throughout Ontario. Select your city to learn more:
Windsor is Canada's southernmost city, looking across the river to Detroit, shaped by the border and by an automotive economy that rises and falls with forces far beyond any one family's control. It is an international, affordable place with a large Middle Eastern community in the wider region. For newcomers, life here can hold both the comfort of familiar faces and the unsteadiness of an economy that does not always feel within reach.
Ghazal Sheikhtaheri, a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) registered with the CRPO, came to Canada as an immigrant from Iran. She knows the particular precariousness of building a life in a new culture, the way uncertainty about work can stir up older fears about safety and belonging. She offers a calm, attentive space for the grief and the resilience that so often live side by side in a newcomer's heart.
In her work she brings together Schema Therapy with attachment- and emotion-focused approaches, gently exploring the patterns that took root long ago and now shape how you weather change. For those holding the expectations of family across distance while standing on shifting ground, this is a place to be understood rather than to perform strength. Living so close to a border, in a region where the economy can feel like the tide, can keep a person braced for the next change, and even that constant readiness deserves somewhere to rest.
Ghazal works online, with clients in Windsor and throughout Ontario, in both English and Farsi, so that what matters most can be spoken in the language where it first lived.
Also serving nearby
Related services