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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Toronto holds arrivals from more places than almost any city on earth — more than half its residents were born somewhere other than Canada — and that means the streets are full of people quietly carrying histories no one around them can see. You can be standing on a crowded subway platform, fluent in the rhythm of the city, and still feel that some older part of you never quite landed here. Trauma works that way. It rarely announces itself. It shows up as a startle you can't explain, a flinch when someone gets too close, a sense that you must keep proving you belong.
In a job market this dense and competitive — finance, tech, media, healthcare, the arts, all of it moving fast and costing a great deal — the pressure to simply function can bury the question of how you actually feel. Many people manage brilliantly on the surface while the past keeps editing the present underneath: deciding who they trust, how safe they let themselves become, how much rest they allow. Schema-based trauma therapy looks gently at those underlying patterns, the early templates that once kept you safe and now quietly run the show, so they can be understood rather than obeyed.
Toronto is also home to one of the largest Persian-speaking communities in North America, gathered especially in the north of the city, around North York and Willowdale. And yet a community can be near and a person can still feel profoundly alone — stimulated by the city, dispersed from the people who knew them before. Therapy can be a place where that isolation softens, where your story is met in your own language and at your own pace.
Working through old wounds does not mean reliving them in detail. It means learning that the past can stop dictating your reactions, your closeness, your sleep — that you can reclaim a life that feels like yours. Ghazal Sheikhtaheri is a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), CRPO #21300, offering sessions entirely online to people in Toronto and anywhere in Ontario, in both English and Farsi.