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, online for people in Etobicoke, including those whose work means staying calm for everyone else.
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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
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Healing doesn't require you to be ready for everything, just ready for a first conversation, online, when you decide it is time.
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Some trauma arrives in a single event. Some builds up one shift at a time. Nurses and personal support workers at Etobicoke General and the Queensway Health Centre, paramedics and firefighters, staff in logistics and manufacturing who have seen someone badly hurt at work: people in these jobs are trained to stay calm while things go wrong, and they are often the last to notice that the calm has started to cost them. Sleep thins out, a sound or smell brings back a scene, patience at home runs short, and the usual ways of coping stop working.
Other people in Etobicoke carry older histories: violence at home, childhood experiences that were never named, or journeys to Canada that involved things no one should have to see. None of these belong to one neighbourhood or one community, and none of them need to be explained by where you are from. They share a pattern, though. The mind that learned to expect danger keeps scanning long after the danger has passed.
Families often notice the change first: the startle at a slammed door, the silence after a hard shift, the refusal to talk about work at all. If someone close to you has said lately that you are not yourself, that is worth listening to, and it is a reasonable place to begin a first conversation.
Schema-based trauma therapy works with that pattern directly. Rather than asking you to retell every detail, it looks at the beliefs and reflexes trauma left behind, the vigilance, the self-reliance, the difficulty trusting, and works to loosen them at a pace you set. For people whose jobs demand composure, part of the work is learning that it is safe to put the composure down for an hour, and that needing help is not the same as failing at the job. Frontline trauma is not always about fear, either. Sometimes it is about having followed a rule that felt wrong, or not reaching someone in time, and the guilt that follows can weigh as much as any single frightening moment.
If the harm came from someone at home, specialized help exists in Etobicoke and across Toronto, including the violence-against-women and victim services listed below. Therapy can sit alongside that practical, safety-focused help, never in place of it.
Ghazal Sheikhtaheri, Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), CRPO #21300, offers trauma therapy entirely online, in English or Farsi. Tina Abadi, RP, also offers trauma-informed, CBT-based therapy online, in English or Farsi. You can meet from home, without driving across the district, in a room where you already feel safe.
These organizations are independent of NoorMinds and not affiliated with the practice; people in Etobicoke may find them useful alongside or between sessions.
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