You don't have to keep surviving on autopilot. If the past still controls how you feel, how you sleep, or how close you let people get — therapy can help you reclaim your life. Schema-based trauma therapy in English or Farsi.
If you recognized yourself in any of these, you are not broken. These are normal responses to experiences that overwhelmed your capacity to cope.
Schema therapy goes beneath surface symptoms to address the deep emotional patterns trauma creates. This isn't about quick fixes — it's about understanding why you respond the way you do and changing those patterns from the root.
Trauma healing requires more than talking about what happened. Emotion-focused techniques help you process what's stored in your body and emotions, not just your thoughts. Every session is paced to what feels safe for you.
As an Iranian immigrant herself, Ghazal understands how culture, family systems, and migration shape the experience of trauma. Sessions in English and Farsi — because healing works best in the language your pain lives in.
Trained in both Iran (Kharazmi University) and Canada (Yorkville University), with over a decade of clinical experience. CRPO registered, with a verified Psychology Today profile.
A calm 15-minute conversation to share what you're experiencing and see if working together feels right. No pressure, no forms beforehand.
In early sessions, we explore how trauma has shaped your emotional world — the beliefs, the coping strategies, and the triggers that keep you stuck.
Weekly 60-minute sessions using schema therapy, emotion-focused techniques, and CBT — always at a pace that feels safe. No rushing, no re-traumatizing.
Insurance receipts provided — most extended health plans in Canada cover sessions with a Registered Psychotherapist.
Visa, Mastercard, Amex, e-Transfer, PayPal, and HSA accepted. Insurance receipts provided after every session.
Healing doesn't require you to be ready for everything — just ready for a first conversation.
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Ajax sits along the lake in Durham Region, an affordable, family-oriented town east of Toronto where many people have come precisely to build a more livable life — among growing South Asian, Caribbean and other newcomer communities. But affordability often comes paired with the long commute west, and the hours on the road and the work in manufacturing, logistics and the public sector leave little space for the inner weather. Old wounds tend to fill that little space anyway.
There's a particular kind of tiredness in a commuter's life, and it can mask another kind entirely — the fatigue of carrying something unhealed. Trauma shapes the present in ordinary disguises: a night of poor sleep before a long drive, a guardedness in close relationships, a flash of reaction larger than its cause, a difficulty letting go even when the day is finally done. These responses once made sense. They are not failings; they are the residue of having endured, the body's way of staying ready long after the need has passed.
Schema-based trauma therapy attends to the patterns beneath those responses — the early templates of safety and trust that still quietly direct your days. Understood gently, at a pace that suits your life, they begin to soften, freeing you to live in the present rather than under the past. Reclaiming that ground does not mean revisiting every hard memory; it means loosening their hold on now.
Healing can fit inside a full and busy life. Ghazal Sheikhtaheri, Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), CRPO #21300, provides trauma therapy entirely online — serving Ajax and anywhere in Ontario, in English and Farsi.
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