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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Brampton is young and growing fast, one of the most rapidly expanding municipalities in the country, full of new families building something from very little. It is also among Canada's most diverse cities, with a very large South Asian population and many other newcomer communities, and much of its work runs on logistics, trucking, warehousing and manufacturing — shift work, long commutes, the hours that don't care whether you slept. Underneath all that effort, many people are also carrying the weight of a past that hasn't been tended to.
There is a particular pressure in building a life while supporting extended family, in being the one others rely on, in being the proof that the move and the sacrifice were worth it. It leaves little room to acknowledge your own old wounds, and so they speak in other ways — through broken sleep, through a guardedness that keeps even loved ones at arm's length, through reactions that feel out of proportion to what set them off. These are not weaknesses. They are the marks of having survived something, and of having kept going regardless.
Schema-based trauma therapy looks gently at the early patterns beneath those signals — the templates of safety and trust formed long ago that still organize your present. Seen clearly, and at your own pace, they begin to loosen, making room for rest and for closeness rather than constant readiness. The work honours your resilience while easing the weight it has been covering.
You can carry your responsibilities and still set down some of the weight. Ghazal Sheikhtaheri, Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), CRPO #21300, provides trauma therapy entirely online — serving Brampton and anywhere in Ontario, in English and Farsi.
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