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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Markham wears its success well — a tech-forward, prosperous city sometimes called Canada's high-tech capital, with finance and professional services thickening around it and affluent, family-oriented suburbs spreading out under a culture of quiet high achievement. But achievement and ease are not the same thing, and a comfortable life can sit atop a great deal that has never been put into words. Beneath polished routines, many people here are managing old wounds that the busyness keeps at bay, until they don't.
This is a place of very large East Asian communities and a growing Middle Eastern and Persian presence across the wider York Region, and across all of it runs the same unspoken expectation: do well, hold it together, don't make a fuss. That expectation can make trauma especially hard to name. It hides inside competence — the trouble sleeping before something important, the reactions that surprise you, the way closeness can feel unexpectedly threatening even when everything around you looks fine, the sense that you are managing your life rather than living inside it.
Schema-based trauma therapy turns toward the patterns underneath the high-functioning surface. The drive to perform, the difficulty trusting, the bracing against disappointment — these often took root early, in moments long before this comfortable present, and understanding them gently lets you live from choice rather than old reflex. The aim is not to dismantle what you've built but to let you actually inhabit it.
You don't have to keep meeting the world's expectations alone. Ghazal Sheikhtaheri, Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), CRPO #21300, offers depth-oriented trauma therapy entirely online — to Markham and anywhere in Ontario, in both English and Farsi.