Golnoosh Shahbaz

Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying)

Golnoosh Shahbaz provides counselling services to teens, adults, couples, and families in Barrie and online.

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Golnoosh Shahbaz

Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying)

Golnoosh works with teens ages 13+, adults, couples and families. She supports people experiencing anxiety, stress, PTSD and trauma, ADHD, addiction, self-esteem concerns, parenting challenges, separation and divorce, infidelity, trust concerns and other relationship difficulties.

Golnoosh’s work is especially focused on helping people understand why the same emotional or relationship patterns keep returning. Rather than focusing only on the immediate symptom or conflict, she looks beneath the surface at the emotions, past experiences and relationship patterns that may be influencing what is happening now.

This can be especially important when anxiety keeps returning, trust has been damaged, the same conflict continues in a relationship, or someone feels they have lost a sense of who they are. Golnoosh pays close attention to a person’s emotional experience and takes time to understand it before offering guidance.

Couples are an important part of Golnoosh’s work. She provides more structure in the earlier sessions so both perspectives can be understood and recurring patterns become clearer. As the work develops, she helps partners communicate more directly with one another while addressing concerns such as conflict, emotional disconnection, intimacy, trust, infidelity and separation.

In parenting and family work, Golnoosh pays attention to what is happening between people rather than treating one family member as the problem. She notices relationship dynamics and deliberately makes room for quieter perspectives so that different experiences within the family can be understood.

Her primary orientation is psychodynamic and psychoanalytic psychotherapy, which fits her interest in understanding deeper emotional patterns and the influence of earlier experiences. Her training also includes CBT, DBT, EFT and couples therapy. She holds a PhD in Clinical Psychology and has extensive psychoanalytic and specialized couples therapy training.

Golnoosh is a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying). She provides counselling in English, Persian and Farsi.

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