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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Walk parts of Willowdale or along Yonge and you'll hear Persian spoken as easily as English — North York is one of the true centres of Iranian and Persian-speaking life in the GTA, with its groceries, its restaurants, its everyday community woven into the high-rises and older neighbourhoods alike. For someone carrying trauma, there is a particular ache in being surrounded by the familiar and still feeling unreachable. The food tastes like home; the conversations sound like home; and yet the inside of you remains somewhere else, somewhere unfinished, as though one part of you stayed behind.
This is a district of corporate offices, healthcare and professional services, dense high-rise living folded in among long-established neighbourhoods, many of its residents commuting the Yonge line and holding demanding roles. It is possible to perform competence all day and come home to a nervous system that never got the memo that the danger has passed. Old wounds keep their own schedule. They show up as restless sleep, as a guardedness with the people you most want to be close to, as reactions that feel bigger than the moment that triggered them, as a tiredness that rest doesn't seem to touch.
Schema-based trauma therapy attends to the early patterns underneath those reactions — the beliefs about safety, worth and trust that formed long ago and still quietly shape your present. Understood with care, in your own language, they begin to lose their authority over your days.
You do not have to translate your grief into a second language to be understood. Ghazal Sheikhtaheri, herself an Iranian immigrant, is a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), CRPO #21300, offering trauma therapy entirely online — to North York and anywhere in Ontario, in both English and Farsi.
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