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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Windsor sits at the very southern edge of the country, looking across the river to Detroit, a border city whose fortunes have long risen and fallen with the automotive industry. That closeness to such large forces, the swings of trade and work, can make life feel precarious even in good times. Living with uncertainty about tomorrow is taxing on its own. When you are also carrying old wounds, that uncertainty can press on places that were already tender.
Trauma reshapes how the present feels. The body that learned to brace for the worst reads instability as a familiar warning, and so sleep grows uneasy, trust comes hard, and closeness can feel like exposure. You might notice yourself reacting to ordinary stress with an intensity that catches you off guard, or going distant when you most want to stay connected. These are not signs of weakness. They are the marks of having had to protect yourself, perhaps for a very long time.
Schema Therapy works with the patterns formed in your earliest experiences, the schemas that still quietly shape how safe and how valued you feel. Rather than pushing your reactions aside, we follow them back to where they began and begin to tend to the younger parts of you still holding the strain. With attachment- and emotion-focused work, the aim is to ease the grip of the past so your life can belong more fully to the present.
Ghazal Sheikhtaheri, Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), CRPO #21300, offers a steady, unhurried space for this work. Sessions are entirely virtual, so you can meet from anywhere in Windsor, and they are available throughout Ontario, in both English and Farsi.
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