You don't have to keep surviving on autopilot. If the past still shapes how you sleep, how you feel, or how close you let people get, therapy can help. Paced, schema-based trauma therapy for people in London, Ontario, online in English or Farsi.
Tina is booking now. Ghazal is booking by waitlist (3–4 weeks).
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. A first 15-minute conversation, from wherever you feel safest in London, is enough.
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London, Ontario has an established network for the worst moments. Reach Out 24/7 is there around the clock with mental health and addiction information, support and crisis help for London and the surrounding counties. Anova offers shelter and counselling to survivors of gender-based and sexual violence. Victim Services of Middlesex-London supports people in the aftermath of crime and tragedy. These services are built for immediacy: safety, shelter, a voice on the line at 3 a.m.
Trauma therapy is the other half of recovery: slower, scheduled, and paced to what your nervous system can tolerate. The aftermath of trauma rarely arrives as one clear memory. It shows up as sleep that never feels like rest, a startle out of proportion to the noise, closeness that feels dangerous, or a harsh inner voice insisting you should be over it by now. Schema therapy looks at the beliefs trauma leaves behind, such as "I am not safe" or "it was my fault", and at the coping modes that once protected you and now keep your world small.
For survivors of intimate partner or sexual violence, safety comes first, and a shelter or a specialized counselling service may be the right first step. Therapy can begin alongside that support or after it, whenever you are ready, and it can focus on what lingers once the immediate danger has passed: the hypervigilance, the self-blame, the difficulty trusting a new partner, a friend or your own judgment.
London is also a place where refugees settle. The London Cross Cultural Learner Centre provides settlement services for newcomers and refugees, and the London InterCommunity Health Centre offers care with a focus on people facing barriers, including newcomers. Some people arrive carrying war, persecution or a dangerous journey; many do not, and nobody's history is assumed here. If displacement or violence is part of your story, you can tell it in English or Farsi, at your own pace, and only as much as you choose.
Ghazal Sheikhtaheri, Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), CRPO #21300, offers weekly 60-minute online sessions using schema therapy with emotion-focused and cognitive-behavioural techniques. You join from a private room at home, anywhere in London or elsewhere in Ontario, and you are never pushed to share more than feels safe. If a crisis comes up along the way, the services below are there for it; therapy is for the work that follows.
These independent London services are not affiliated with NoorMinds; they can be useful alongside or between sessions, and some are available around the clock.
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