You don't have to keep surviving on autopilot. If the past still shapes how you sleep, how you react, or how close you let people get, there is a calmer way to work with it. Schema-based trauma therapy online for people in Whitby, in English or Farsi.
Tina is booking now. Ghazal is booking by waitlist (3–4 weeks).
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, and no need to leave home in Whitby.
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. Many extended health plans cover psychotherapy with a Registered Psychotherapist. Ghazal holds the Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) designation, so please confirm your plan covers it. Full fees & insurance details
Visa, Mastercard, Amex, e-Transfer, PayPal, and HSA accepted. Insurance receipts provided after every session.
You don't need to be ready for everything, only for a first conversation, which you can have without leaving home.
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NoorMinds provides virtual trauma therapy to residents throughout Ontario. Select your city to learn more:
Whitby is home to Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences, a specialized public mental health hospital serving Durham Region and beyond, and the whole region is covered by Distress Centre Durham's 24/7 line. Knowing where those services are is part of a good safety plan. It also lets private trauma therapy do the job it is suited for: slow, steady work on what the past left behind, week by week.
In a town whose employers include a specialized mental health hospital, some of the people who look for that work spend their days close to other people's pain: nurses and allied health staff, first responders, social service and public-sector workers. Parents supporting a child through something frightening carry a version of it too. Secondary trauma is real. It can show up as dread before a shift, intrusive images, irritability at home, or a flatness that makes it hard to enjoy anything.
For others the trauma is personal and older, rooted in a childhood that never felt safe or a relationship that became frightening, and it shows up now in how they parent, how they love, or how hard it is to rest.
Schema-based trauma therapy works gently with the patterns trauma sets down: hypervigilance, a sense that you are to blame, difficulty trusting, a harsh inner critic. You don't have to recount everything that happened. Sessions are paced to what you can manage, with attention to how you will feel when the call ends and you walk back into the rest of your day.
Because the work is online, you can meet from home anywhere in town, from the Port Whitby waterfront to Brooklin in the north, without the drive, the waiting room or the chance of seeing a colleague. Ghazal Sheikhtaheri, Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), CRPO #21300, offers trauma therapy in English and Farsi to people across Whitby and Ontario, drawing on schema therapy alongside emotion-focused and CBT methods. Tina Abadi, RP, also offers trauma-informed, CBT-based therapy online, in English or Farsi.
These are independent organizations, not affiliated with NoorMinds, that can be useful alongside or between sessions.
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