Irinah Jurkowski

Irinah Jurkowski is a Sydney-based counsellor with over 15 years of professional experience supporting individuals, couples, and families through a wide range of life challenges. She is an accredited Social Worker with the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW) and a member of the Australian Counselling Association, with much of her career spent in private practice working with people from many different backgrounds.

Her counselling style is collaborative and compassionate, with an emphasis on creating a non-judgmental environment where clients can feel heard and respected. Irinah works with concerns such as stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, and depression. In sessions, she and the client explore the thoughts, feelings, and experiences influencing current patterns, while also focusing on practical strategies that support meaningful, sustainable change. Her work is oriented toward strengthening self-awareness, building confidence, and fostering more satisfying relationships and life experiences.

Irinah integrates a range of therapeutic approaches, including short-term Solution Focused Therapy along with more depth-oriented and exploratory methods such as Psychoanalysis, Narrative Therapy, Emotionally Focused Therapy, Psychodynamic Therapy, Internal Family Systems, and Gestalt Therapy. She is a PACT Level 2 qualified Couple Counsellor and supports couples who want to move through anger, disconnection, and loneliness and reconnect with closeness and intimacy, including work to repair trust, improve communication, and build emotional connection. She is also trained in the Richards Trauma Process (TRTP) and works with childhood and other forms of trauma. Each session is tailored to the individual, with a focus on helping clients move forward with resilience, optimism, and a stronger sense of wellbeing.