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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In the capital, life often runs on a quieter, more measured current than in Toronto. The federal public service gives Ottawa its steady, professional rhythm, and there is a certain composure to the bilingual, four-season city. But composure can become its own kind of burden. When you are expected to be reliable and contained, the harder truths of what you carry can go unspoken for years, tucked behind a competent surface that no one thinks to question.
Trauma rarely announces itself plainly. More often it shows up as the difficulty trusting colleagues or partners, the sleep that will not deepen, the way an offhand comment can leave you rattled for hours. For newcomers especially, Ottawa's calm can feel isolating, the stability of the work not quite reaching the loneliness underneath. The past keeps editing the present, quietly deciding how close you let people come and how safe you allow yourself to feel.
Schema Therapy works with exactly these patterns. We look at how early experiences shaped the templates you now use, often without noticing, to interpret other people and to judge yourself. Instead of pushing your reactions away, we follow them to their roots and begin to meet the younger, wounded parts of you with care. Attachment- and emotion-focused work helps the old alarms grow quieter, so that connection and rest become possible again.
Ghazal Sheikhtaheri, Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), CRPO #21300, offers a thoughtful, unhurried space for this kind of depth. Sessions are entirely virtual, so you can meet from anywhere in Ottawa, and they are open to clients throughout Ontario, in both English and Farsi.
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