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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Oshawa carries its history in its bones — the largest city in Durham Region, shaped for generations by the automotive line and the rise and fall that came with it, now broadening into healthcare, education, the trades, and a growing university and college presence. It is a more affordable, working-class, increasingly diverse place, and it knows something about endurance: about holding on through the economic ups and downs that an industry town lives through. People here are practiced at carrying on. They are sometimes less practiced at tending to what they carry.
When livelihoods have felt uncertain and resilience has been the rule, trauma can go unspoken for years. It surfaces sideways — in sleep that won't come, in a guardedness with the people closest to you, in reactions that feel larger than the moment that sparked them. Pushing through is a real skill, but it is not the same as healing, and the past keeps shaping the present until it's given some attention.
Schema-based trauma therapy looks gently at the early patterns beneath that toughness — the ways of staying safe that settled in long ago and still run the show. Understood with care, and at your own pace, they begin to ease, making room for rest and trust rather than constant bracing. The work does not undo your resilience; it simply lets you stop running on it alone, and it asks nothing graphic of you to begin.
Strength and seeking help are not opposites. Ghazal Sheikhtaheri, Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), CRPO #21300, provides trauma therapy entirely online — serving Oshawa and anywhere in Ontario, in English and Farsi.
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