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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Thornhill sits across the line between Markham and Vaughan, and across it runs a richly textured community life — a major hub of Iranian and Persian culture, where the language, the food and the rhythms of home have a strong everyday presence, alongside an established Jewish community and tight, longstanding networks. Belonging is woven tightly here. But close networks, for all their warmth, can also make it harder to admit when something inside is hurting, when an old wound is still shaping your days.
This is an established, family-centred place, professional and small-business oriented, with many commuting into the GTA. In a community where people know one another, where word travels and reputations are felt, the pressure to appear well can be quietly intense, and trauma slips beneath it — into sleep that won't come, into a reflexive guardedness with the very people closest to you, into reactions that feel bigger than they should. The past keeps a hand on the present whether or not anyone notices, whether or not you have ever spoken of it aloud.
Schema-based trauma therapy works with the early patterns underneath those experiences, the ways of staying safe that took hold long ago and still operate now. Understanding them gently, and privately, lets them loosen — making room for rest, for trust, for closeness that doesn't cost you. None of it requires reliving the hardest moments; it asks only that they stop running your days unexamined.
You can be deeply rooted in community and still need a confidential place of your own. Ghazal Sheikhtaheri, Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), CRPO #21300, provides trauma therapy entirely online — serving Thornhill and anywhere in Ontario, in English and Farsi.