You don't have to keep surviving on autopilot. Whether what happened was in childhood, in a relationship or in a country you had to leave, if the past still controls how you feel, how you sleep, or how close you let people get, therapy can help. Online, schema-based trauma therapy in English or Farsi for people in Mississauga.
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 home in Mississauga.
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Some of the trauma carried in Mississauga began far from it. The city is home to people who arrived as refugees or left places at war, and settlement agencies that work with Afghan newcomers, the Afghan Women's Organization among them, operate here. Other histories are closer to home: a violent relationship, an assault, a serious crash on the highway, a childhood in which no one was safe to turn to. Trauma therapy doesn't rank these. What matters is how the experience still lives in you.
It rarely announces itself. More often it shows up in ordinary places: tensing at a siren on Hurontario, dreading the 403 after a collision, sleep that falls apart every year around the same date, or a raised voice at home that sends you somewhere far away.
When trauma is tied to migration, being understood matters as much as technique. It can be hard to describe a detention, a dangerous journey or the loss of a home in a second language, and harder still when the listener needs the background explained first. Ghazal Sheikhtaheri, Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), CRPO #21300, is an Iranian immigrant who works in Farsi and English, and she paces sessions so you never have to tell more than you are ready to.
Her approach is schema-based. Rather than reliving events in detail, the work looks at the patterns trauma left behind, such as constant vigilance, a sense that you are to blame, or difficulty trusting anyone, and helps them loosen at a pace that feels safe, with emotion-focused and CBT techniques alongside. Tina Abadi, RP, also offers trauma-informed, CBT-based therapy in both languages.
Trauma can also travel between generations. Parents who lived through war, revolution or flight may never speak about it, and children raised in Mississauga can still feel its weight in a household's silences, its fears or its rules. Therapy can help you understand what you inherited without having to relive what your parents went through.
Therapy is not an emergency service; if you are in immediate danger, call 911. Peel has its own crisis and victim supports: CMHA Peel Dufferin runs the region's crisis response service, and Victim Services of Peel helps people after a crime or sudden tragedy. Online sessions can sit alongside those services, from wherever you live in Mississauga. For some people, sitting in a stranger's waiting room is itself too much; meeting from a familiar room, with your own things around you, can make the first steps more manageable.
These organizations are independent and not affiliated with NoorMinds; they offer practical and crisis support in Mississauga that can sit alongside or between sessions.
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