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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Etobicoke spreads out quietly along Toronto's western edge — lakeshore neighbourhoods, established subdivisions, longtime European families and newer arrivals all sharing a calmer, more residential pace than the city's centre. That quiet can be a relief, and it can also be a place where private struggles go unspoken. Behind a settled, car-oriented, family-focused life, a person can be carrying old wounds that no one would guess at, the kind that surface most in the stillness of home rather than the noise of the street.
Many here commute to the downtown core or out toward the airport employment zone, into pharma, logistics and manufacturing — steady work that asks you to show up reliably regardless of how the night before went. When trauma keeps shaping the present, the ordinary becomes effortful: sleep that won't come, a wariness in close relationships, a reaction that arrives before you've had time to think, a sense of being slightly braced against a day that hasn't even threatened you. None of it is a character flaw. It is the past doing what unhealed things do, asking to be tended rather than outrun.
Schema-based trauma therapy works with the patterns laid down early in life — the ways you learned to stay safe that now keep you braced even when you're safe. Naming them gently, and slowly, lets you respond to your actual life rather than to an old one. The point is not to dwell in what happened but to free the present from it, so that closeness and rest stop feeling like risks.
Reclaiming your days is possible, and it can happen at a pace that respects you. Ghazal Sheikhtaheri, Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), CRPO #21300, provides trauma therapy entirely online — serving Etobicoke and anywhere in Ontario, in English and Farsi.
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