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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St. Catharines is the garden city at the centre of the Niagara Region, set among vineyards and the escarpment, with a relaxed pace near the lake. It is the kind of place that invites you to slow down. But slowing down can be its own quiet reckoning. When the rush of doing finally eases, what you have been carrying tends to come forward, and an old hurt can make itself felt precisely in the calm you hoped would soothe it.
Trauma does not respect a beautiful setting. It lives in the sleep that stays shallow, in the trust that comes hard, in the way nearness can feel both desired and dangerous. You might notice yourself reacting to small frustrations with an intensity that seems out of place amid such ease, or pulling back from people just as they draw close. These reactions are not signs of something wrong with you. They are the residue of a time when vigilance was simply how you survived.
Schema Therapy turns toward those early patterns with care, exploring how the past still shapes your sense of safety, worth and belonging. Rather than judging your reactions, we learn their history and begin to tend to the younger parts of you that have carried so much. Through attachment- and emotion-focused work, the old alarms grow quieter, and the present begins to feel like a place you can rest in rather than guard against.
Ghazal Sheikhtaheri, Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), CRPO #21300, brings warmth and depth to this work. Sessions are entirely virtual, so you can meet from anywhere in St. Catharines, and they are available across Ontario, in both English and Farsi.
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