Ramak Jaberizadeh
Ajax Couple Therapist

Ramak Jaberizadeh, RP

Registered Psychotherapist

She/Her

Specialties: Couples and relationships, betrayal/affairs, divorce, blended families, parenting, families, teens and students, LGBTQIA+ folks, queer and poly relationships.

Clients like: I’m steady and easy to talk to. I'll tell you what I notice, and I'll ask you to tell me when something isn't landing — including when it's me. I'd rather have the awkward conversation than let us drift politely for six months.

Modalities: The Gottman Method, Narrative therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Solution-Focused Brief Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), attachment-informed, trauma-informed, feminist and intersectional, strengths-based, anti-oppressive.

Availability: Ajax in person, virtual.

Schedule: Days and evenings.

Languages spoken: English, Farsi

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More About Me

Hi, I'm Ramak.

I love being a witness. That's the honest answer to why I do this work — being the person who sits with you while you say the thing out loud, and lets you know that it matters, that you matter, and that you are more capable than you may believe in this particular moment.

I was born in Iran and came to Toronto as a child, after my family arrived as refugees. Rebuilding a life in a new language, in a place that doesn't know you yet, leaves something behind that outlasts the paperwork by decades. It's part of why I do this work. It's also why I'll never assume I know your story just because some of it rhymes with mine.

Before this, I spent twenty years in communications and marketing for national and global organizations. The whole time, I kept finding my way into community work on the side, and eventually I had to be honest with myself that that was where the meaning was. So I went back to school. I've brought the first career with me: I know the pace and the pressure of high-performing environments, and I know what it looks like when someone is exceptional at work and quietly coming apart at home. My background is also in English literature, and I love playing with language, metaphor and story — which is why narrative therapy sits close to the centre of how I work. The story you tell about yourself becomes the shape of the life you live inside. We can look at that story together, and we can revise it.

My clients range in age from six to sixty. I work with teens, adults, couples and families on anxiety, low mood, stress and burnout, grief, major transitions, identity, and the effects of trauma, displacement and marginalization. I work extensively with queer clients — identity exploration, coming out, and relationships of every structure, monogamous and otherwise. I also work with newcomers and people with refugee status, where therapy sometimes has to make room for housing and work before anything deeper can happen.

More and more, what my clients bring me turns out to be relational. We don't exist in isolation. Whatever you're carrying, you're carrying it in the middle of a family, a partnership, a culture, a history.

Here's what I'll ask of you: tell me when it isn't working. Some of the most useful moments in my practice have come from a client saying "this feels awful" or "I don't think we're getting anywhere," and the two of us being able to talk about it honestly. That kind of two-way honesty is what makes therapy work, and building a relationship sturdy enough to hold it is my job, not yours.

You are the expert on your own life. My role is to listen closely, reflect carefully, and help you reconnect with the wisdom and strength that are already yours. If that sounds like the kind of support you're looking for, reach out for a free consultation — I'd be glad to meet you.