Mahdiyeh (Dia) Meratian, MSc, RP

Locations: Phone/Video
Disciplines: Individual Therapy, Couple Therapy, and Family Therapy
Languages: English and Farsi
Top Specialties: Family Conflict, Relationship issues, Immigration Issues, and Life Transitions & The Process of Meaning Making

Education
-Couple and Family Therapy (MSc), Guelph University
– Psychology (B.A), Ryerson University

License and Memberships
–College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario: 008930

About Dia

When I think about therapy, I imagine my client’s search for well-being and healing as if they were lost and trying to find their way home. You might know where home is, but find yourself stuck in darkness, not being able to find your way. As your therapist, I see myself holding the flashlight. You are the one who knows your way to healing, and I have the tools to help get you there easier. 

This is what I believe therapy looks like; us walking together on your journey. As we travel together to help you find “home”—your place of healing, peace, and comfort—while I share my knowledge and tools to help you find that “home”. On our way, we may chat about life, loss, grief, and challenges, while also about hope, meaning, resilience, acceptance, and growth!

As a therapist, I have helped many individuals, couples, and families. I often work on relationship issues, trauma, difficulty connecting with others, impulsivity, conflict, communication, loneliness, depression, anxiety, self-esteem, immigration and acculturation, and multicultural stress. 

I believe we are influenced by the context we live in. As a systemic therapist (and the person who is shedding light on our way home), I can help you understand the impact of your environment and history in the challenges you are experiencing. I integrate methods such as Narrative therapy, Emotion Focused Therapy, Solution Focused Therapy, and Dialogic/Collaborative Therapy to help you find meaning for the past, connect with your present emotions, and build solutions for the future.

Congratulations to you for making the hardest, yet most important step toward positive change: finding a therapist for yourself. I offer a free consultation, so please contact me if you like to chat about therapy! 

Specialties

ADHD
Adoption
Anger Management
Anxiety
Behavioural Issues
Bipolar Disorder
Borderline Personality
Career Guidance
Child or Adolescent
Coping Skills
Depression
Developmental Disorders
Divorce
Domestic Abuse
Education and Learning Disabilities
Family Conflict
Grief
Immigration and acculturation issues
Impulse Control Disorders
Infidelity
LGBTQ+
Life Coaching
Life Transitions
Marital and Premarital
Men's Issues
Mood Disorders
Obsessive-Compulsive (OCD)
Parenting
Peer Relationships
Personality Disorders
Racial Identity
Relationship Issues
School Issues
Self-Esteem
Self-Harming
Spirituality
Stress
The process of meaning making
Transgender
Trauma and PTSD
Women’s Issues

Age Range

Preteens/Tweens (11-13)
Adolescents/Teenagers (14-19)
Adults
Elders (65+)

Therapy Types

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Attachment-Based
Coaching
Cognitive Behavioural (CBT)
Compassion Focused
Couple Therapy
Culturally Sensitive
Eclectic
Emotionally Focused
Family Systems
Family/Marital
Feminist
Gestalt
Gottman
Humanistic
Integrative
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Multicultural
Narrative
Parent-Child Interaction (PCIT)
Person-Centered
Psychobiological Approach
Relational
Solution Focused Brief
Strength Based
Structural Family Therapy
Trauma Focused

Communities

Aviation Professionals
Bisexual Allied
Body Positivity
Cancer
Gay Allied
HIV / AIDS Allied
Immuno-disorders
Intersex Allied
Kink Allied
Lesbian Allied
Little Person Allied
Non-Binary Allied
Queer Allied
Racial Justice Allied
Sex Worker Allied
Sex-Positive
Single Mother
Transgender Allied
Vegan Allied
Veterans