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450 Britannia Rd E Unit A, Mississauga, ON L4Z 1X9
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647-366-8445 | 905-507-0606
Hijab Gul
Hijab Gul (She/Her)
MACP Candidate
Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying)
Accepting New Clients
Hijab Gul, Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) | Trauma, Anxiety & Depression Therapist for Youth & Adults | Urdu, Hindi & Punjabi Speaking Therapist in Mississauga.
“You may have learned how to carry a lot without showing it. From the outside, things can appear steady, even successful. On the inside, it can feel heavy, tangled, or difficult to put into words”.
Available online across Ontario and in-person in Mississauga.
Professional Background
Hijab Gul is a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) with the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO), authorized to practice under clinical supervision while completing final registration requirements. She is completing her Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology (MACP) at Yorkville University, where her training is grounded in evidence-based, trauma-informed, and integrative therapeutic approaches.
Hijab offers psychotherapy in Mississauga in person at Inner Wellness Psychotherapy and virtual therapy across Ontario. She also offers affordable therapy in Mississauga and online across Ontario, making quality mental health support more accessible. She provides therapy in English, Urdu, Hindi, and Punjabi, allowing clients to express themselves in the language that feels most natural and emotionally accurate to them. For many clients, this shifts therapy from something that feels translated or filtered into something that feels more immediate, grounded, and more connected to their lived experience.
Specialization
Hijab Gul is a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) offering psychotherapy in Mississauga and online therapy across Ontario. She provides therapy for anxiety in Mississauga, depression counselling, trauma therapy, ADHD therapy, grief counselling, emotional regulation difficulties, health anxiety, infertility-related stress, and life transitions. She also offers psychotherapy for divorce and separation support, domestic violence recovery, family conflict, and gender identity-related concerns.
She works with individuals seeking anxiety therapy in Mississauga and across the GTA who are experiencing persistent worry, overthinking, emotional overwhelm, burnout, low self-esteem, and difficulty managing stress. Many clients also seek support for trauma-related symptoms, relational patterns that feel repetitive, and challenges with emotional regulation that impact relationships, work, and daily functioning.
Hijab also provides therapy for mothers and parents in Mississauga and across Ontario who are experiencing caregiver stress, parenting pressure, identity shifts, and emotional burnout while balancing cultural expectations, family responsibilities, and personal wellbeing. Her work recognizes the emotional demands of caregiving roles and the impact they can have on mental health and identity.
As a multilingual therapist, she offers therapy in English, Urdu, Hindi, and Punjabi, supporting South Asian therapy clients and multicultural communities across the Greater Toronto Area. She works with clients navigating cultural identity stress, intergenerational conflict, migration-related adjustment, and the emotional complexity of balancing multiple cultural frameworks. She provides culturally responsive psychotherapy in Mississauga and online therapy in Ontario, integrating trauma-informed care with an understanding that mental health is shaped by lived experience, family systems, identity, and environment.
Approach
Hijab Gul’s approach to psychotherapy in Mississauga and online therapy across Ontario is integrative, trauma-informed, and evidence-based. In her work, she draws from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT), psychodynamic therapy, Narrative Therapy, Interpersonal Therapy (IPT), Gestalt therapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS), somatic approaches, and Polyvagal Theory. This integrative framework allows therapy to be tailored to each client’s needs rather than following a single fixed method.
Her sessions focus on understanding the connection between thoughts, emotions, behaviours, and nervous system responses. Many clients seeking therapy in Mississauga or online therapy in Ontario are not only looking for symptom relief, but also for clarity around patterns that repeat in relationships, stress responses, and emotional regulation. Therapy may involve building awareness of these patterns, developing coping strategies, and increasing emotional flexibility in daily life.
Hijab pays close attention to how emotional experiences are stored and expressed in the body, including patterns of activation, shutdown, or overwhelm that can arise in response to stress or relational triggers. This supports a more grounded understanding of emotional responses and how they influence behaviour over time.
Her goal in therapy is not to eliminate all emotional difficulty, but to support meaningful psychological flexibility and change over time. As clients move through the therapeutic process, they may develop greater self-awareness, improved emotional regulation, and a clearer understanding of long-standing patterns, supporting a shift from self-criticism toward self-understanding and more steady ways of relating to internal experiences.
What Sets My Practice Apart?
What I bring into sessions is an understanding that emotional experiences are rarely only thought-based. In therapy, I pay attention to how distress is shaped beneath the surface, through nervous system responses, early attachment patterns, relational experiences, and the environments people have had to adapt to in order to cope, survive, or function.
Rather than focusing only on what brings someone to therapy in Mississauga, I also look at how those struggles developed over time. Patterns connected to anxiety, emotional overwhelm, trauma, relationship difficulties, or burnout often have a history. They tend to form in response to earlier experiences where emotional safety, consistency, or connection felt limited or unpredictable. Understanding this context can help shift how people relate to themselves in the present.
In sessions, I focus on how these experiences show up beyond language, in emotional reactions, the body, and relational patterns that repeat even when there is insight. Therapy is not only about understanding thoughts, but also about noticing how the nervous system responds, how emotions are processed and stored, and how past experiences continue to influence present-day functioning.
I do not approach therapy as something that requires forced insight or immediate clarity. Instead, I see it as a process that unfolds when there is enough safety, consistency, and space for deeper understanding to emerge. Meaningful shifts often begin gradually, sometimes as increased emotional awareness, sometimes as body-based changes, and sometimes before experiences can be fully explained in words.
Over time, this process may support a different relationship with oneself, one that is less shaped by self-criticism and more grounded in understanding why certain patterns exist, what they once protected, and how they can begin to shift.
At its core, my work as a psychotherapist in Mississauga is about supporting clients in moving from self-judgment toward self-understanding, so that what once felt overwhelming or confusing can begin to feel more understandable, workable, and integrated.
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