30+ Years of Experience
About Tahereh
As a therapist, I am committed to helping adults, couples and families to address their concerns and achieve their goals and healing within a safe environment. I approach my work with sincerity, respect, and care for individual differences, spiritual beliefs, cultural backgrounds, and social experiences. I appreciate the uniqueness of relationships people have in any settings - intimate, family, and work. As a result, I offer my counselling services tailored to people's unique needs.
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​I practice a compassionate and collaborative approach in my therapy sessions. Inspired by Collaborative and Narrative Therapy practices, I listen to your personal and relational stories, encourage open communication and self-exploration/reflection, gain deeper insights to the links between your emotions and actions.
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My work with you is to explore your capacities and strengths to tackle barriers to self-awareness, participation, and self-acceptance.
I aim to empower you to cultivate resilience, develop effective coping strategies, and re-establish a self-narrative to better stand up to life challenges. My services are available in English and Farsi.
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Professional Training And Education
As both Registered Psychotherapist (RP) and Registered Couple & Family Therapist (RMFT), I bring a high level of clinical expertise and skill to my work with clients. The problems that bring people to see me are often complex (as life is a mystery!) and my training in these two professions enable me to co-create solutions to day to day relational conflicts with self, partner, family members and others.
I am committed to continuous growth and development. I have a PhD in Psychology from Twente University. I also have a Master's degree in Counselling Psychology and an Honours Bachelor degree in Social Science from the University of Tehran. I completed my course work for certification as a Couple & Family Therapist (CCFT) at the University of Guelph and am a Clinical Fellow with the American Association for Marriage and Family (AAMFT).
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I am registered with the College of Registered Psychotherapist of Ontario (CRPO). I am a Certified Narrative therapist, using an approach that allows for a discovery of people's narratives of life, narratives that we are told or tell ourselves over and over to construct meanings to who we are and what life is about. My approach is trauma-informed and practice/ evidence- based. My services are covered by most insurance and extended health care plans.
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