30+ Years of Experience
About Tahereh
What guided me to this field was my own experiences of disconnection, disappointment, and hurt in interactions with people. Those experiences continue to energize me in a search for ways to collaborate, stay connected and repair.
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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 life with honesty, sincerity, respect, and care for human differences, spiritual beliefs, cultural backgrounds, and social experiences.
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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 stories. I encourage open & honest communication between you and your loved ones. I promote self-exploration/reflection to gain insight and widen your perspectives. I support you in seeing the connecting tissues linking your untold stories of hurt and disconnection to your today's actions with yourself and wtih your loved ones.
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My work with you is to identify your relational patterns, explore your strengths, and tackle barriers to participating in your life and accepting yourself as a whole. Showing up in relationship is difficult, when we face obstacles in acknowledging our wounds/strengths and in owning them. The initial steps are to feel heard and safe to share your discomfort in a safe environment.
I aim to empower you to cultivate resilience, increase your tolerance, develop effective coping strategies, and establish a self-narrative that makes you sensible to what life offers you.
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This is a safe and honest space where you can speak freely, where your various parts are honoured, and where we begin to understand what is happening in your inner world that shapes your outer world. It is a space to see the line in-between these two worlds.
It is never too late.
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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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