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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Kitchener has become one corner of the Waterloo Region tech triangle, and with the startups and the growth has come a faster tempo and rising costs that press on nearly everyone. It is a mid-sized city remaking itself in real time, full of newcomers and students and people chasing opportunity. Underneath the ambition, though, many are quietly managing something heavier, an old hurt that the busyness can mask but never quite resolve.
Trauma has a way of hiding inside productivity. You can be capable at work and frayed at home, meeting every deadline while sleep stays shallow and your guard never fully lowers. Closeness may feel complicated, trust slow to build, and small frictions can trigger reactions that seem out of proportion until you understand where they really come from. The past does not simply stay in the past; it shapes how you read a room, how you rest, how near you let others stand.
Schema Therapy offers a path through this. We examine the early patterns that formed long before any of today's pressures, the schemas that still influence how safe and how worthy you feel. Instead of treating your reactions as problems to suppress, we trace them to their source and tend to the younger parts of you carrying the weight. With attachment- and emotion-focused work, the aim is to help you reclaim a life that feels like your own rather than a reaction to what came before.
Ghazal Sheikhtaheri, Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), CRPO #21300, holds this work with warmth and patience, no matter how full your week. Sessions are entirely virtual, easy to fit into a demanding schedule in Kitchener, and available throughout Ontario, in both English and Farsi.
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