diff --git a/src/Process/ProcessHelper.php b/src/Process/ProcessHelper.php
index 0e16484ddc..f72a24a48d 100644
--- a/src/Process/ProcessHelper.php
+++ b/src/Process/ProcessHelper.php
@@ -26,7 +26,13 @@ public static function getWorkerCommand(
 	{
 		$phpIni = php_ini_loaded_file();
 		$phpCmd = $phpIni === false ? escapeshellarg(PHP_BINARY) : sprintf('%s -c %s', escapeshellarg(PHP_BINARY), escapeshellarg($phpIni));
-
+		
+		if (getenv("XDEBUG_HANDLER_SETTINGS") !== false) {
+			//indicates that phpstan was previously restarted by Composer\XdebugHandler\XdebugHandler
+			//that means we need to disable potential loading of ini files, like XdebugHandler does
+			$phpCmd.=" -n";
+		}
+		
 		$processCommandArray = [
 			$phpCmd,
 		];