Spiritually-attuned psychotherapy for adults working through transition, grief, identity and the larger questions that arrive in between.
I work with adults who are in the middle of something — a loss, a becoming, a quiet unraveling that hasn't yet found its words. Therapy with me is less a set of techniques and more a shared attention: a turning toward what is already here, patiently, without hurry.
My orientation is integrative and spiritually-attuned. I draw from psychodynamic, existential and somatic traditions, and I hold room for the religious, mystical and cultural lineages my clients bring with them.
Modern psychotherapy learned a great deal in the last century — and quietly set aside a great deal too. My practice tries to hold both: the rigor of contemporary clinical work, and the older wisdom about meaning, ritual, and the depth of a human life.
Real change is rarely linear. I keep a slow tempo — enough silence for something true to surface, enough structure to make that surfacing useable in your week.
Evidence-based technique and spiritual seriousness are not rivals. I hold both without collapsing one into the other, and without bypass.
Persian, diasporic, multi-religious, queer, grieving, becoming. Bring the whole of your story — nothing here needs translation.
Weekly open-ended work for adults looking to understand themselves at the level of pattern, inheritance, and undertow.
Loss, divorce, migration, career change — the seasons that ask us to reconfigure who we are and how we belong.
Work with anxiety not as a symptom to silence, but as a messenger — learning its language while regaining a steady floor.
For those wrestling with meaning, faith transitions, and the place of mystery and the sacred in a mental-health frame.
For children of diaspora, those between languages, anyone carrying more than one culture in a single body.
Individual work focused on how we love, attach, withdraw, return — and how those patterns are asking to change.
Sessions are direct-billed privately. I'm glad to help you make sense of what your plan covers before we begin.
"Motahareh held a space I didn't know I was allowed to ask for. Her listening has a patience that feels almost religious."
"I came in for anxiety and left with a whole new relationship to my own life. The work was slow — nothing about that was wasted."
"Rare among therapists in how she holds the spiritual and the psychological in the same hand, without collapsing one into the other."
Why we are quicker to medicalize sorrow than let it teach us something, and what the slow version of grieving might offer in return.
Read essay →On holding the spiritual life seriously in a therapy room — without reducing it to self-care.
Notes from clinical work with Persian-speaking clients, and the particular ways home gets lost and remade.
What a consultation call can and cannot tell you — and what to listen for when choosing a therapist.
On seasonal grief, the liturgies of rest, and what we miss when we try to optimize the darker months.
The first session is less about diagnosis and more about meeting. I'll ask what brought you now, what you've already tried, and what you hope this work will slowly change. You're also meeting me — deciding whether my presence is one you can think alongside. No commitment is made at the end of the first hour.
Yes — and I'm glad to work with clients whose relationship to faith is complicated, ambivalent, or post-religious. What I don't do is treat spirituality as a symptom or bypass. It belongs in the room.
It depends on what we're working with. Some people come for a focused season of 12–20 sessions; others stay for years because depth work unfolds at its own speed. We revisit the question together, out loud, every few months.
Most extended-health plans in Ontario cover Registered Psychotherapist services at least partially. I provide receipts after each session and am glad to help you read your plan before you commit.
Yes. Sessions can be held entirely in Farsi, entirely in English, or — as many of my clients prefer — moving between the two as the inner work requires.
Tell me a little about what's bringing you in. I read every message myself and reply within two working days.