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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Cambridge was made from old mill towns gathered along the Grand River, and that history gives it a character distinct from its faster-growing neighbours, a blend of industry and small-town texture. It is a more affordable, more grounded place than the tech cities nearby, with working roots and a quiet steadiness. But steadiness on the outside does not always match what we carry within. The past can keep its own pace, regardless of how settled life appears.
When old wounds are part of your story, the present often feels harder than it should. The river of daily life moves on, but something in you stays braced. Sleep comes thin, trust arrives slowly, and the closeness you want can feel like risk. You may react to small things with a force that surprises you, or grow numb when you long to be present. These responses are not failures of will. They are the lasting logic of a self that once had to stay protected.
In Schema Therapy, we look gently at the patterns formed in your earliest years, the templates that still shape how you read others and how you treat yourself. Rather than fighting your reactions, we follow them back to their beginnings and begin to give the younger parts of you what they did not receive. Attachment- and emotion-focused work helps loosen the past's grip, so your responses can belong to the life you are living now.
Ghazal Sheikhtaheri, Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), CRPO #21300, offers a calm, unhurried space for this work. Sessions are conducted entirely online, so you can meet from anywhere in Cambridge, and they are open to clients throughout Ontario, in both English and Farsi.
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