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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Burlington sits comfortably along the lake between Hamilton and Oakville, often named among the best places in the country to live, family-centred and prosperous, with many residents commuting the QEW corridor. There is real comfort here, but comfort can be a strange companion to inner pain. When your surroundings look enviable, the wounds you carry can feel almost embarrassing, as if you have no right to struggle in a place this fortunate.
Yet trauma keeps its own accounting, indifferent to address or income. It shows up in the sleep that will not deepen, the trust that stays cautious, the closeness that feels safer kept at arm's length. You might find yourself reacting to small pressures with an intensity that surprises you, then judging yourself for failing to simply feel grateful. These reactions are not ingratitude. They are the lasting work of a nervous system that once learned, for good reason, to stay on guard.
In Schema Therapy, we look gently at the patterns formed long ago, the early beliefs about safety and worth that still run beneath your reactions today. Rather than pushing those responses away, we trace them to their roots and begin to offer the younger parts of you the care they missed. With attachment- and emotion-focused work, the past loosens its hold, so that the comfortable life around you can finally be felt from the inside.
Ghazal Sheikhtaheri, Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), CRPO #21300, brings a calm, depth-oriented presence to this work. Sessions are entirely online, so you can meet from home in Burlington without another drive along the highway, and they are available throughout Ontario, in both English and Farsi.
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