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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Hamilton wears its history openly, in the steel and the harbour and the old industrial bones now being reimagined as galleries and studios. It is a city with a strong sense of itself, and lately a city in flux, as a changing economy and an influx of those priced out of Toronto reshape its neighbourhoods. Living through change while also carrying the past is its own quiet labour. The ground shifting underfoot can stir up older feelings of instability that you thought you had left behind.
When trauma is part of your story, uncertainty tends to land hard. The body that once learned to expect upheaval reads new pressures as old threats. You might notice that sleep frays, that trust feels precarious, that you flinch at conflict or pull away from people just as they get close. None of this means something is wrong with you. It means a part of you is still standing guard, doing the job it took on long ago when no one else was there to do it.
In Schema Therapy, we slow down and look at the patterns formed in those early years, the beliefs about safety and worth and belonging that still run beneath your reactions. Rather than judging the ways you cope, we understand where they came from and begin, gently, to give those younger parts what they have long gone without. Attachment- and emotion-focused work helps you live from the present rather than the past, with more steadiness and more room to breathe.
Ghazal Sheikhtaheri, Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), CRPO #21300, brings a calm, depth-oriented presence to this work. Sessions are conducted entirely online, so you can meet from anywhere in Hamilton, and they are available across Ontario, in English and Farsi.