Zahra Zahed is a Master Certified Life Coach, Body Transformation Specialist, Certified Personal Trainer, and Nutritionist. With a diploma in Fitness and Health from Centennial College and nearing a Kinesiology degree from Guelph Humber University, Zahra combines extensive expertise with a deeply personal journey of resilience and transformation. She is passionate about empowering others through mindset and wellness strategies tailored to each individual’s unique goals. Zahra’s unwavering dedication to continuous improvement ensures her clients receive personalized, optimal care—enabling them to achieve real, lasting results.
Registered Dietitian with Diabetes education certification and Certified Bariatric Educator. Over 6 years of experience in community nutrition and clinical counseling. Expertise in chronic disease education, with a strong focus on evidence based practice and motivational techniques.
Working with childhood trauma in adults fascinates me. The “rupture” produced by traumatic experiences is deeply rooted in the person’s unconscious, body and core beliefs. Switching to “automatic pilot” becomes a way to survive.
Trauma is perhaps the most avoided, ignored, belittled, denied, misunderstood, and untreated cause of human suffering. The responses to trauma are best understood as a spectrum of conditions rather than a single disorder. They range from a brief stress reaction that gets better by itself and never qualifies for a diagnosis, to classic or straightforward post-traumatic stress disorder, to the complex syndrome of prolonged, repeated trauma. The symptom picture is often far more complex in survivors of prolonged, repeated trauma. Survivors of prolonged abuse develop characteristic personality changes, including deformations of relatedness and identity. Survivors of abuse in childhood develop similar problems with relationships and identity; in addition, they are particularly vulnerable to repeated harm, both self-inflicted and at the hands of others.The healing approach involves reconnecting with the authentic self, reprocessing the trauma’s meaning, healing, and becoming whole.
Qualifications
License: Ontario / 10160
School: Yorkville University, Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology
Degree: Spiru Haret University Bucharest / Bachelor of Arts in Psychology
Year graduated: 2011
Additional Credentials
College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario
Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association
Ontario Society of Registered Psychotherapists
