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. Schema-based trauma therapy online, from a private room at home in Oakville, 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 somewhere in Oakville that feels private to you.
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NoorMinds provides virtual trauma therapy to residents throughout Ontario. Select your city to learn more:
Oakville counted 213,759 residents in the 2021 Census, yet it often behaves like a much smaller place. Children go to school together, parents meet on the sidelines and in the pickup line, and colleagues turn out to live three streets over. That closeness is part of why people like living here. It can also make trauma harder to talk about, because the person you might tell is also someone you will see at the rink or the next school event. Seeing a therapist online means your therapist is not part of your Oakville life at all: not a parent at the same school, not a face on the same sidelines.
Trauma rarely announces itself. It shows up as sleep that never quite feels safe, a startle that seems out of proportion, trust extended slowly or not at all, and a habit of looking fine while something underneath stays braced. It can come from a single event, from years of growing up in a difficult home, from violence in a relationship, or from the losses of migration. You do not need a diagnosis, and you do not need to tell the whole story to begin.
If what you are carrying involves someone close to you, such as a partner, a relative or a person in your community, it can feel impossible to name at all. You can start with how you are feeling now and decide over time how much of the story to tell. Nothing has to be said before you are ready, and you can raise concerns about safety or privacy at any point.
Some trauma is carried home from work. People in hospitals, policing, paramedicine and other front-line jobs take other people's worst days with them, and the effects can build quietly over years: irritability, numbness, a startle that will not switch off. Others carry what happened before they came to Canada. Whatever the source, therapy starts from how it shows up in your life now.
Ghazal Sheikhtaheri, a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), works with trauma through Schema Therapy and emotion-focused techniques, paced to what feels safe. Rather than reliving every detail, the work looks at the patterns those experiences left behind: the beliefs about danger and worth, the ways you learned to protect yourself, and the younger parts of you still carrying the weight. Online sessions mean you meet from your own room, with no waiting room and no chance encounter on the way in or out. Tina Abadi, RP, also offers structured, CBT-based trauma-informed therapy.
Therapy is one support among several. Halton has specialized services for people affected by sexual violence, domestic abuse and crime, listed below, and some people use them alongside sessions or between them. If you are ever in immediate danger, call 911.
Separate from NoorMinds and not affiliated with it, these independent organizations are ones people in Oakville can turn to alongside or between sessions.
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