You don't have to keep surviving on autopilot. After a collision on the highway, a hospital shift that won't leave you, or harm that happened long ago, if the past still controls how you feel, how you sleep, or how close you let people get, therapy can help. Online, schema-based trauma therapy in English or Farsi for people in Brampton.
Tina is booking now. Ghazal is booking by waitlist (3–4 weeks).
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. Many extended health plans cover psychotherapy with a Registered Psychotherapist. Ghazal holds the Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) designation, so please confirm your plan covers it. Full fees & insurance details
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 one conversation, at a time that works around your shifts.
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Some trauma in Brampton arrives through work. William Osler Health System runs Brampton Civic Hospital and Peel Memorial, and the people who staff them, nurses, clerks, cleaners and security guards among them, witness things few people ever see. The city is also a major trucking and warehousing hub, and a driver can carry a near-miss or a fatal collision long after the road has been cleared. Repeated exposure adds up, even when no single event feels big enough to count.
Other trauma began further away, or closer to home. Some residents came to Canada as refugees or fled conflict; others are living with, or leaving, violence at home. Peel has dedicated services for that: the Safe Centre of Peel brings many agencies together for survivors of intimate partner violence in Peel, and Victim Services of Peel offers crisis response after a crime or sudden tragedy. Therapy doesn't replace those services. It works on what lasts after the immediate danger has passed.
What lasts often looks ordinary from the outside: sleep that won't come after a night shift, a jolt of fear at the sound of brakes, irritability with the people you love, or a flatness where feelings used to be. Schema-based trauma therapy looks at the patterns underneath, such as hypervigilance, self-blame or a belief that you must cope alone, and works with them at a pace that feels safe, without asking you to relive every detail.
Trauma can also be hard to name in families where hardship was simply endured. If the message growing up was to keep going, work hard and not dwell on it, saying that something still hurts can feel disloyal. Therapy doesn't ask you to give up that resilience. It helps you add to it the care you may never have had room for.
Ghazal Sheikhtaheri, Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), CRPO #21300, uses schema therapy together with emotion-focused and CBT techniques, in Farsi or English. Tina Abadi, RP, provides trauma-informed CBT, structured and skills-first. Because sessions are online, they can fit between rotating shifts or a long haul, and there is never a waiting room to sit in. If you are in immediate danger, call 911.
The services below are independent of NoorMinds; they offer crisis, safety and victim support in Brampton that can sit alongside or between sessions.
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