Anxiety
When everyday tasks start to feel like too much, therapy can help you slow down, regulate, and rebuild a steadier baseline.
- Generalized, social, and health anxiety
- Panic, racing thoughts, sleep disruption
- OCD and intrusive thoughts
Online therapy in Ontario
Compassionate, trauma-informed psychotherapy for adults across Ontario working through anxiety, burnout, depression, and the patterns they've outgrown. Available in English and Farsi.
Areas of focus
Online psychotherapy for adults across Ontario, with individual sessions for the patterns shaping your daily life, and couples work for the relationships closest to it. Trauma-informed, integrative, available in English and Farsi.
When everyday tasks start to feel like too much, therapy can help you slow down, regulate, and rebuild a steadier baseline.
Trauma-informed psychotherapy that honors your pace, working with what surfaces and never against it.
Working through low motivation, numbness, and the feeling of being stuck, toward clarity, agency, and meaning.
For high-functioning adults running on empty. Therapy to recover capacity, set limits, and notice yourself again.
A grounded space for two: to slow down conflict, repair connection, and learn each other's nervous systems.
About
Niousha is a Registered Psychotherapist (CRPO, Ontario) and Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC, British Columbia). She works with adults navigating anxiety, trauma, depression, burnout, and the slow recalibrations of midlife, offering a relational space rather than a clinical one.
Her practice is trauma-informed and culturally sensitive, drawing on mindfulness-based CBT, somatic interventions, and integrative approaches chosen to fit how you process. The pace is yours: nothing forced, nothing minimized. Sessions are online, in English and Farsi.
Take the first step
Book a free 30-minute consultation. No commitment, no pressure. Just a chance to see if working together makes sense.
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Reviews
Anonymized for privacy: first names only. Quotes are shared with permission.
As an Iranian woman, finding a therapist who understands my culture was very important for me. With Niousha I can switch to Farsi when there are no English words for something. I don't have to explain who my mother is, what is taarof, why certain things are hard. She just understands. This has made all the difference.
I had been on so many waitlists before finding Niousha. From the first call I knew this was going to be different. She actually listens, like really listens, and she helped me understand my anxiety in a way that didn't feel clinical or shaming. I am someone different now.
Honestly, I was very skeptical. Came in mostly because my partner pushed me. Four sessions in and I was crying about my dad and I haven't cried in maybe a decade. I don't know how she does it but she does.
I have done therapy before, twice, and stopped both times. With Niousha I never felt like I was being analyzed. We worked at the edges, slowly. About eight months in I noticed I had stopped flinching at sounds I used to flinch at. I cannot point to a single session where it shifted, but it shifted.
I'd been calling it "just tired" for years. She was the first person who actually took that seriously.
My partner and I had been having the same fight for two years. Two years!! Niousha never took sides, she just slowed it all down so we could actually hear what the other was saying. We still have the same fights but they end differently now.
FAQ
The consultation is a relaxed conversation, not a clinical intake. We talk about what's bringing you here, what you're hoping to work on, and whether we feel like a good fit. There is no pressure to book a follow-up. If we are a fit, we'll schedule your first full session together.
There isn't a threshold. People reach out with everything from "something feels off and I can't name it" to clear, long-standing patterns they're ready to address. If you've been thinking about therapy at all, that's already information worth taking seriously. The free consultation is a no-pressure way to figure out if working together makes sense for what you're carrying.
Fit matters as much as method. Many people who feel therapy didn't work for them had a therapist who wasn't the right match, or an approach that didn't fit how they process. Niousha works integratively, drawing on mindfulness-based CBT, somatic interventions, and trauma-informed care depending on what's most useful for you. The consultation is where we figure out together whether this is likely to land differently.
All sessions are online, by secure video. You can attend from anywhere in Ontario. For couples work, both partners need to be physically located in Ontario at the time of the session. You'll receive a private video link before each appointment.
Standard sessions are 45 minutes. Most clients meet weekly to start, then move to bi-weekly or as-needed once the work has rhythm. The cadence is something we decide together based on what's most useful for you, not a fixed schedule.
Individual psychotherapy sessions are $180 CAD for 45 minutes. Couples therapy is $220 CAD for 45 minutes. The initial 30-minute consultation is free, with no obligation to continue. Receipts are provided after each session for insurance reimbursement where applicable.
Yes. After each session, you'll receive a receipt with my CRPO registration number that you can submit to your insurance provider for reimbursement. Most extended health plans in Ontario cover Registered Psychotherapy. Check with your insurer for plan-specific coverage and limits.
Yes. Therapy is confidential, with the limited exceptions Ontario law requires (risk of imminent harm to self or others, suspected abuse of a minor, or a court subpoena). We'll review confidentiality together in our first session and I'll answer any questions you have.
Life happens. I ask for at least 24 hours notice to cancel or reschedule a session without charge. Cancellations within 24 hours are billed at the full session fee. The free consultation can be rescheduled at any time, no fee.