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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Pickering looks out over Lake Ontario, a suburban Durham Region city just east of Toronto where lakeside calm meets the daily strain of the commute. Work here leans on energy, including the nuclear sector, along with retail and the public service, and most residents know the long pull west into the city and back. There is a real beauty in living near the water, and there is also the quieter truth that a peaceful setting does not quiet an unsettled past.
For someone carrying trauma, the contrast can be sharp — the lake steady and wide, while inside, something refuses to settle. Old wounds keep shaping the present in familiar ways: sleep that breaks, a reflex to brace against closeness, reactions that arrive faster than thought, a quiet difficulty trusting that things are as fine as they look. None of it means you are broken. It means part of you is still organized around a danger that has, in fact, passed, still keeping watch out of an old loyalty to your own safety.
Schema-based trauma therapy works with those early patterns — the protective templates that took hold long ago and still run beneath your days. Brought into view with care, and at your own pace, they begin to loosen, and the present opens back up to you. This is hopeful work, and it does not ask you to recount the worst of it in detail in order to feel its weight ease.
You can live near calm and learn to feel it on the inside, too. Ghazal Sheikhtaheri, Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), CRPO #21300, offers trauma therapy entirely online — to Pickering and anywhere in Ontario, in both English and Farsi.
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