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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Vaughan is a city in the act of becoming — a brand-new downtown core rising, subdivisions spreading north of Toronto, families settling into something they're building largely from scratch. Its roots are Italian and its present is widening, with an expanding Iranian and Persian and broader Middle Eastern presence across York Region. There's an ambition in the air here, a sense of forward motion. And forward motion can be a way of outrunning a past that nonetheless keeps catching up.
Much of life runs on construction, retail, logistics and the commute into Toronto — busy, car-oriented, oriented toward what comes next. In all that movement, old wounds rarely get a hearing. They make themselves known instead through sleep that won't settle, through a wariness in your closest relationships, through reactions that feel larger than the moment, through a restlessness that no amount of progress seems to quiet. Trauma doesn't dissolve because life got busier; it waits, and it shapes things quietly, deciding more than we realize about how safe we let ourselves feel.
Schema-based trauma therapy attends to the patterns formed long before this new chapter — the early ways of staying safe that still run beneath your days. Understood with care, and at a pace that respects you, they stop steering from the shadows, and the present becomes more genuinely yours rather than an echo of what came before.
A new beginning can include making peace with what came before. Ghazal Sheikhtaheri, Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), CRPO #21300, provides trauma therapy entirely online — serving Vaughan and anywhere in Ontario, in English and Farsi.
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