Uri Bookman (He/Him)
Counselor/Therapist, PACFA Registered Clinical Counsellor (30041), Relationship & Couples Counsellor, Certified Coach
Online in Australia, New Zealand
(Online Only)
You may function well on the outside yet find yourself caught in recurring patterns, in your relationships, within yourself, or in how you respond when triggered. I work with thoughtful individuals and couples who want to understand what is happening beneath the surface and respond differently. My approach is warm, direct and structured, helping you move toward greater clarity, choice and connection.
Client Focus
Session Format: Couple, Group, Individual sessions.
Age Specialty: Adult
Demographic Expertise: Jewish, Men clients.
Languages: English, Hebrew
Treatment Approach
- Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) Focuses on strengthening emotional bonds in couples or families. It helps people identify negative cycles and create more secure connections.
- Experiential Therapy Involves hands-on activities to bring emotions into the present moment. It helps clients process feelings more deeply than through conversation alone.
- Internal Family Systems (IFS) Helps clients heal by working with different ‘parts’ of themselves, like inner critics or wounded children. It fosters harmony within the self.
- Jungian Therapy Draws on Carl Jung’s ideas about archetypes, dreams, and the collective unconscious. It helps people explore deeper layers of meaning.
- Multicultural Therapy Acknowledges the role of culture, race, and identity in mental health. It values diversity and adapts treatment to each person’s background.
- Relational Psychotherapy Emphasizes the healing power of the therapist-client relationship. It uses trust and safety as a foundation for change.
- Somatic Therapy Helps clients notice how emotions are stored in the body. It uses breath, movement, and awareness for healing trauma and stress.
Approach Description: My approach is relational, trauma-informed, integrative and pattern-focused. Rather than staying only with the presenting problem, we pay attention to what is happening beneath it: the emotional triggers, protective responses, relationship dynamics and earlier experiences that can shape how you react in the present.
I draw primarily on Process-Oriented Psychology (Processwork), attachment-based work, Internal Family Systems (IFS), Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), experiential and somatic approaches, Jungian and shadow work, and Nonviolent Communication.
An important part of the work is noticing what happens in real time. A change in your body, an urge to withdraw, becoming defensive, critical or overwhelmed, or a familiar reaction to your partner can give us useful information. Instead of treating these reactions as something simply to get rid of, we become curious about what they are protecting, expressing or asking for.
With couples, I hold the relationship itself as part of the work. We look beyond who started the problem to understand the cycle between you, while still maintaining accountability for individual choices and behaviour. Where appropriate, couples work can be complemented by individual sessions to address personal patterns or triggers that are affecting the relationship.
With individuals, the work can move between present-day challenges, relationships, embodied experience and deeper underlying patterns. My role is not simply to give advice, but to help you see more clearly what is happening and develop the capacity to respond differently when it matters.
The work is structured without being formulaic, compassionate without avoiding responsibility, and deep without needing to become overly clinical or heavy. The aim is greater clarity, choice, connection and the freedom to live and relate more intentionally.
Fees & Insurance
Fees
- Average Session Fee 200
- Affordable sliding scale therapy: apply if you may be eligible.
- A limited number of reduced-fee places may be available for those whose financial circumstances would otherwise prevent them from accessing ongoing counselling. Please enquire about availability.
- Accepts Insurance
- Private health rebates may be available through Medibank Private, ahm, ARHG participating funds, Teachers Health, Nurses & Midwives Health, GMHBA, Police Health, Defence Health, Doctors’ Health Fund and Westfund. Please check your eligibility and level of cover directly with your health fund.
Education & Credentials
Uri Bookman PACFA Registered Clinical Counsellor (30041), Relationship & Couples Counsellor, Certified Coach
- Male
- License # 30041
- Licensed in NSW
- Practicing Since 2018
Education: I’m a PACFA Registered Clinical Counsellor (30041) with a Graduate Diploma in Trauma-Informed Processwork Psychotherapy. My training includes Processwork, IFS, EFT and Nonviolent Communication, supported by more than a decade of counselling, coaching, group facilitation and personal development work
Uri Bookman Practice Details
Therapy Sessions
- Available Online for residents of Australia, New Zealand
- Online Therapy Details: Zoom
I’m Uri Bookman, a PACFA Registered Clinical Counsellor (30041), relationship and couples counsellor, and certified coach. I work with individuals and couples who may function well on the outside yet find themselves caught in recurring emotional or relationship patterns.
You may understand the problem intellectually but still react in ways you later regret. Perhaps the same arguments keep repeating, anxiety or overwhelm takes over, trust has been damaged, or you feel disconnected from yourself or someone you love. You may know something needs to change without knowing how to make that change when it matters.
My work goes beneath the surface problem. Together, we explore the patterns, triggers and underlying dynamics shaping what is happening in real time. The aim is not to decide who is right or wrong, but to create greater awareness, responsibility and choice so that something genuinely different can become possible.
I work extensively with relationship difficulties, anxiety, infidelity, separation and divorce, men’s issues, stress and major life transitions. With couples, this may mean moving beyond cycles of blame, withdrawal or defensiveness and rebuilding trust, communication and connection. With individuals, it may mean understanding recurring reactions, developing a more grounded relationship with yourself, and becoming freer to respond rather than simply react.
My style is warm, direct and collaborative. There is room for depth without the work needing to become heavy. I bring more than a decade of experience across counselling, psychotherapy, coaching, facilitation and personal development, alongside ongoing clinical training.
The patterns that keep repeating can become an opportunity to understand what is happening beneath the surface and develop a different way forward.
I work online with clients across Australia and New Zealand.