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About
Shakiba Jonaghani

Student Intern

Our work together invites you to meet yourself with more honesty, depth, and compassion by noticing what is emerging, what is aching, and what is ready to grow.

You might be here because something in your inner world has shifted, gently or abruptly, and you can no longer ignore it. Perhaps you feel a pull toward clarity, a desire to understand parts of yourself that feel out of reach, or a need to make sense of emotions that appear without warning. You may be navigating changes in identity, relationships, or belonging, and you are trying to understand what these transitions are asking of you.


I offer a space where your experiences can be explored at their own pace, where confusion, grief, fear, longing, and ambiguity are not treated as problems to fix but as meaningful signals pointing toward what matters. Together, we pay attention to the patterns that shape your being and doing in the world, the wisdom your body carries, the stories you have lived, and the ones that are waiting to be told.

Together, we explore your emotional, relational, bodily, and narrative experiences and allow them to inform one another. My role is to accompany you with curiosity and care as you uncover clarity, courage, and meaning in your own way.

My Approach to Therapy

My approach is relational, experiential, and grounded in the belief that everyone is the expert on their own life and deserves support in moving toward what feels more aligned and possible. I integrate emotion-focused insights, narrative perspectives, mindfulness-based practices, and trauma-informed principles. I also draw from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), and psychodynamic ideas based on your needs and preferences.


A significant part of my work is rooted in creative and expressive processes. With a background in expressive arts and drama-based work, I welcome alternative languages of expression, including imagery, movement, story, objects, natural elements, writing, or film, whenever they help you connect with parts of yourself that need forms of communication beyond conventional talk therapy. You do not need to be artistic; creativity here is simply another pathway to understanding.


As an immigrant, I am deeply attuned to cultural transitions, systemic barriers, identity shifts, and the quiet griefs that accompany displacement or belonging in multiple worlds. My practice is culturally responsive, anti-oppressive, and informed by an understanding of how societal and relational systems shape our lived stories.

Ready to get started? 

Let’s see if we make a good team.

If this sounds like you, let’s talk. Please feel free to reach out to me to schedule a session or a free consultation.

Professional Supervision:

Shakiba is completing her Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology at Yorkville University, and her clinical work is supervised by a Registered Psychotherapist in accordance with CRPO requirements.

Clinical Modalities

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

Schema Therapy

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

Psychodynamic

Solution-Focused Therapy (SFT)

Areas of Focus

Anxiety

Stress management

Emotion regulation

Life transitions, identity and migration-related stress

Self-worth/self-criticism/self-esteem

Trauma-informed support

Emotion Regulation

Meaning, purpose, and self-growth

Education / Trainings

Practicum Student of the Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology - Yorkville University

Memberships

Currently in the process of registering as a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying with the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO)