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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There is a particular kind of tiredness that settles over a town like Whitby, where so many days begin before sunrise with a long commute toward the GTA and end well after dark. Between Oshawa and Ajax, this is a place built around family and the steady project of making a home. But trauma does not keep office hours. It waits in the quiet of the kitchen once the children are asleep, and it has a way of turning an ordinary evening into something braced and watchful.
When the past has left a mark, the present often feels rigged. Sleep comes thin and broken. Trust arrives slowly, if at all, and closeness can feel less like comfort than like risk. You may find yourself reacting to small things with a force that surprises you, or going numb when you most want to be present for the people you love. These are not character flaws. They are the logic of a nervous system that once had to keep you safe and has not yet been told the danger has passed.
In Schema Therapy, we look gently at the old patterns laid down long ago, the early wounds that quietly script how you read other people and how you treat yourself. Rather than fighting your reactions, we trace them back to where they began and begin, slowly, to give those younger parts of you something they did not receive. With attachment- and emotion-focused work, the goal is not to erase what happened but to loosen its grip, so that your responses belong to today rather than to the past.
Ghazal Sheikhtaheri, Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), CRPO #21300, offers this work as a calm and unhurried space, even on the busiest weeks. Sessions are entirely online, so you can meet from home in Whitby without adding another drive to your day, and they are available throughout Ontario, in both English and Farsi.
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