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 Richmond Hill, Persian is among the most-spoken languages, and Iranian culture is not an accent on the town but part of its daily fabric — the businesses, the services, the easy familiarity of a community that has put down deep roots directly north of Toronto. For many Iranians, this is the closest thing to home outside of home. And that nearness can make trauma especially poignant: to be among your own people, in an affluent, education-focused, comfortable place, and still feel that something inside has never quite arrived.
It is a professional, tech and small-business town, much of it white-collar, much of it lived close to family and oriented around children's education and the next achievement. Old wounds don't ask permission to surface in such a life. They show up as restless nights, as a guardedness that keeps you slightly apart even from those who love you, as reactions that outsize their cause. Carrying the past while keeping up appearances is its own quiet exhaustion, the kind that comfort cannot reach.
Schema-based trauma therapy looks gently at the early patterns underneath — the templates of trust and safety formed long ago that still organize how you live now. Met in your own language and at your own pace, they begin to soften their hold, so that the present stops being shaped by a history that has already passed.
Being understood in Farsi, by someone who knows the journey, can change what healing feels like. Ghazal Sheikhtaheri, an Iranian immigrant and Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), CRPO #21300, offers trauma therapy entirely online — to Richmond Hill and anywhere in Ontario, in both English and Farsi.
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