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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On the shore of Kempenfelt Bay, Barrie marks the threshold between the city and cottage country, a place of lake life and four seasons of recreation. But it is also a city of long roads, home to some of the longest commutes in the province, and that daily distance between work and home can wear quietly at a person. When you are already carrying old wounds, those hours in transit become time alone with thoughts that do not always rest.
Trauma tends to surface in the spaces between, in the silence of a long drive, in the dark before sleep, in moments when there is finally nothing to distract you. It shows up as a guardedness that will not fully lower, as sleep that comes thin, as a flinch in the face of conflict or closeness. You may react to small things with a force that surprises you, then wonder why. The answer usually lies further back than the present moment, in a self that once needed to stay watchful to be safe.
In Schema Therapy, we turn toward those early patterns with curiosity rather than judgment, learning how the past still shapes the way you trust, rest and let others near. Instead of battling your reactions, we trace their origins and begin to give the younger parts of you the steadiness they have long needed. Attachment- and emotion-focused work helps the old alarms quiet, so that you can meet your life now rather than the life that hurt you then.
Ghazal Sheikhtaheri, Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), CRPO #21300, brings warmth and depth to this work, with no need for another journey. Sessions are conducted entirely online, so you can meet from home in Barrie, and they are open to clients across Ontario, in both English and Farsi.
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