You don't have to keep surviving on autopilot. If the past still shapes how you feel, how you sleep, or how close you let people get, therapy can help. Schema-based trauma therapy online for people in Milton, 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, just ready for a first conversation, from whatever quiet corner of home in Milton works for you.
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Milton is a town of arrivals: between the 2016 and 2021 censuses alone, it added nearly 23,000 residents. A move is supposed to be a fresh start, and in many ways it is. But trauma is not tied to an address. What happened in a childhood home, a past relationship, a war or a difficult migration tends to come along, sometimes surfacing only once life finally slows down enough for it to be felt.
Trauma can look like sleep that stays light and watchful, a body that stays braced, a temper that flares at small things, or a numbness that makes it hard to enjoy the life you worked for. It can also look like being very good at coping: keeping busy, looking after everyone, never slowing down. None of this means you are broken. These are understandable responses to experiences that were more than anyone could absorb at the time.
For some families, trauma crosses generations. Parents who lived through war, persecution or a dangerous journey may never speak about it, and their children grow up sensing something heavy without knowing its name. Therapy can help with what happened to you and with what you inherited, without forcing a conversation your family is not ready to have.
For some parents, trauma resurfaces when a child reaches the age they were when something happened, or when an ordinary tantrum sets off a reaction far bigger than the moment. That is an understandable time to look for help, and it does not mean you are failing as a parent. It often means the past is asking, finally, to be dealt with.
Ghazal Sheikhtaheri, a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) who knows something about starting over as an Iranian immigrant, brings Schema Therapy, emotion-focused and cognitive-behavioural techniques to trauma work. Sessions are paced to what feels safe, and you are never pushed to share details before you are ready. If a more structured, skills-first approach suits you, Tina Abadi, RP, offers CBT-based trauma-informed therapy.
Therapy is not the only support: the Halton organizations listed below help survivors of sexual assault, partner violence and crime. Sessions themselves are online, so you meet from a private room of your choosing, in English or Farsi.
The organizations below are independent and not affiliated with NoorMinds; people in Milton can reach out to them alongside or between sessions.
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