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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Waterloo is the university and tech heart of the region's innovation corridor, a place of two universities and a sprawling startup ecosystem, youthful and international and moving fast. The energy here is real, but so is the burnout that high-pressure knowledge work can breed. When you are already carrying old wounds, that relentless pace can become a way to outrun feelings that never quite get outrun, only postponed to a quieter hour.
Trauma often hides inside ambition. You can be excelling and exhausted at the same time, productive by day and unsettled by night, your guard so habitual you no longer notice it. Trust may be slow, closeness complicated, and minor stresses can set off reactions that feel far too large for the situation. The past has a way of staying active in the present, quietly shaping how much you let yourself rest and how near you allow others to come.
Schema Therapy offers a way to slow down and look at the early patterns beneath the surface, the schemas that still influence how safe and how worthy you feel, long before any deadline existed. Instead of suppressing your reactions, we trace them to their source and tend to the younger parts of you carrying the load. With attachment- and emotion-focused work, the goal is to help you reclaim a life that feels like yours, rather than a perpetual response to old pressure.
Ghazal Sheikhtaheri, Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), CRPO #21300, holds this work with patience, even amid the most demanding schedule. Sessions are entirely online, simple to fit between obligations in Waterloo, and available across Ontario, in both English and Farsi.
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