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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Milton has grown faster than almost anywhere in the country, and you can feel that momentum in its new streets and young families and the constant pull of the commute toward Mississauga and Toronto. For many who have arrived here from elsewhere, the town is a fresh start written in subdivisions and possibility. Yet beginnings can be deceptive. You can move to a new place, even a new country, and find that what hurt you long ago has quietly packed itself into the boxes and come along.
Carrying old wounds while building a life from scratch is a particular weight. The body that learned to stay alert does not relax simply because the address has changed. Sleep stays guarded, trust feels expensive, and the closeness you hoped a new home would bring can be hard to let in. Sometimes the smallest setback, a delay, a disappointment, a misunderstanding, can summon a reaction far larger than the moment seems to deserve, because it is not really about the moment at all.
Schema Therapy offers a way to understand those reactions instead of being ruled by them. Together we look at the early patterns, the schemas, that formed when you were young and that still shape how you experience safety, belonging and love. Through attachment- and emotion-focused work, we tend to the parts of you that have been bracing for a long time, helping you respond to your real life now rather than to echoes of what came before.
Ghazal Sheikhtaheri, Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), CRPO #21300, knows something of starting over as an Iranian immigrant herself, and she meets this work with patience and depth. Sessions are held entirely online, fitting around Milton's demanding commutes and full days, and are available across Ontario, in English and Farsi.
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