Urja Refalo
Gestalt Psychotherapist, Relationship Counsellor and Group facilitator; Ma Gestalt Therapy, Grad. Dip Relationship Counselling; mPacfa mGanz; Registered NDIS provider, Medibank Private, CHBS Health and Doctors Health Fund.
Urja Refalo is in private practice at Harbour Therapy Clinic, Coffs Harbour and offers professional, confidential counselling and psychotherapy. Urja Refalo is also the principal of New Pathways Counselling and Support. She is an experienced psychotherapist, counsellor and group facilitator who is passionate about empowering her clients for positive change. She has a background in meditation and meditative therapies and has been working therapeutically with people for over 30 years. Urja sees clients ranging from childhood to adolescents to adults and into older age, either as individuals or as couples in relationship counselling. She also sees NDIS participants.
Urja incorporates her vast experience in her work with clients while respecting each client’s unique process at all times. Urja’s psychotherapy and counselling sessions are validating and enriching. She embraces an approach that includes the mind and body enabling people to improve their mental and emotional health together with their overall feeling of wellness. Throughout therapy Urja fosters the client’s power and strength that enables them to make their own fulfilling choices. She creates a supportive and caring environment that fosters self-acceptance, self-worth, insight and growth.
Given Urja’s flexible, attentive and creative manner she is able to engage clients with an array of conditions and from diverse backgrounds. Together with talking therapy, Urja uses many means to elicit her client’s experience. Methods include the use of art materials, play therapy and play based interventions. These methods are particularly effective with children and young adolescents, as well as NDIS participants who have difficulty with verbal expression.
In a professional way she will work together with clients to help them come to a deeper understanding of themselves and make more sense of their unique situation. By increasing awareness, completing unfinished business and experiencing the ‘self’ more fully, client’s find they are more confident, have renewed direction, freedom and relaxation.
Urja incorporates her vast experience in her work with clients while respecting each client’s unique process at all times. Urja’s psychotherapy and counselling sessions are validating and enriching. She embraces an approach that includes the mind and body enabling people to improve their mental and emotional health together with their overall feeling of wellness. Throughout therapy Urja fosters the client’s power and strength that enables them to make their own fulfilling choices. She creates a supportive and caring environment that fosters self-acceptance, self-worth, insight and growth.
Given Urja’s flexible, attentive and creative manner she is able to engage clients with an array of conditions and from diverse backgrounds. Together with talking therapy, Urja uses many means to elicit her client’s experience. Methods include the use of art materials, play therapy and play based interventions. These methods are particularly effective with children and young adolescents, as well as NDIS participants who have difficulty with verbal expression.
In a professional way she will work together with clients to help them come to a deeper understanding of themselves and make more sense of their unique situation. By increasing awareness, completing unfinished business and experiencing the ‘self’ more fully, client’s find they are more confident, have renewed direction, freedom and relaxation.
