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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Guelph is often spoken of for its quality of life, a walkable university city with a genuine sense of community and a steadier pace than the GTA. There is comfort in belonging to such a place. And yet community and well-being on the outside do not always reach the parts of us that still ache. Sometimes living among people who seem settled and content can make a private struggle feel even more isolating, as though you are the only one carrying something heavy.
Trauma is rarely visible from the outside. It lives in the sleep that will not deepen, the trust that arrives reluctantly, the way closeness can stir as much fear as warmth. You might find yourself reacting to small disappointments with an intensity that puzzles you, or withdrawing just when connection is within reach. None of this makes you broken. It is the understandable echo of a time when your mind and body learned, wisely, to stay protected.
Schema Therapy looks gently at the patterns laid down in childhood, the beliefs about safety, worth and belonging that still run beneath your reactions today. Rather than treating your responses as flaws, we understand where they came from and begin to offer the younger parts of you the care they went without. Through attachment- and emotion-focused work, the past gradually loosens its hold, and the community and life around you become easier to truly inhabit.
Ghazal Sheikhtaheri, Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), CRPO #21300, brings a calm, depth-oriented presence to this process. Sessions are entirely virtual, so you can meet from anywhere in Guelph, and they are available throughout Ontario, in both English and Farsi.
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