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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Oakville is a town of harbours and head offices, prosperous and polished, home to many high-earning commuters and a growing Persian and Middle Eastern professional presence. Achievement is woven into the culture here, and with it a quiet pressure to appear that everything is in order. That pressure can be especially heavy for those carrying old wounds, who learn to perform composure while something underneath remains unsettled and unseen.
Trauma rarely shows on the surface, least of all in a place that prizes the surface. It lives in the sleep that stays guarded, in the trust extended slowly, in the closeness that feels more like risk than refuge. You might excel at work and feel hollow at home, react to small slights with a force that startles you, or go quiet just when connection is within reach. None of this is a failure of success. It is the past, still shaping how safe and how worthy you allow yourself to feel.
Schema Therapy looks beneath the polished surface to the patterns formed in your earliest years, the schemas that still influence how you read others and treat yourself. Rather than judging your reactions, we understand their origins and begin to tend to the younger parts of you carrying the weight. Through attachment- and emotion-focused work, the past releases its grip, and the life you have built becomes one you can actually inhabit rather than merely maintain.
Ghazal Sheikhtaheri, Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), CRPO #21300, understands the quiet pressures of high expectation and meets this work with patience and depth. Sessions are conducted entirely online, so you can meet from anywhere in Oakville, and they are open to clients across Ontario, in both English and Farsi.
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