Urvi A. Gala is one of the coaches that we found this month and we did a little interview with her. She impressed us with her passion for coaching and creativity.
She discovered early that listening beyond words was her true gift. Teaching art as a teen became a path to understanding human behaviour and resilience, a skill she now brings to her work as an integrative psychotherapist and systemic coach.
She blends Eastern wisdom with Western clinical methods, meeting clients as complex systems to be understood. Creativity, presence, and relational insight guide her transformative approach.
She believes healing is a daily practice of self understanding and compassion. Using art, neuroscience, and systemic thinking, she helps clients move from self judgment to self trust and reconnect with their authentic selves. Here is what she said…
Meet Life Coach Urvi A. Gala:
Name: Urvi A. Gala
Pillar: The Mind, The Heart
Who is this coach for: Individuals seeking deep emotional healing, self understanding and personal growth beyond surface level solutions.
How they can help: By using various tools and techniques like art based expression, narrative reframing, systemic formulation, psychoeducation, and autonomy based dialogue, just to name a few.
First of all, how are you and your family doing in these “crazy” times?
I come from a large, deeply rooted family in India where resilience is not something we speak about.
It is something we embody.
My mother’s unwavering optimism and refusal to surrender to circumstance shaped my psychological foundation.
She taught me that strength is quiet, consistent and dignified.
My father lives through fearless contribution to social causes without the need for recognition, and from him I learned that purpose is greater than praise.
Though I now live and work in the United Kingdom while my family remains in India, distance has refined rather than weakened our bond.
Technology keeps us connected, but shared values keep us aligned.
Living between cultures has expanded my consciousness.
I carry Eastern philosophical depth and Western clinical precision within the same identity.
We are doing well not because life is without uncertainty, but because we have learned to meet uncertainty with courage, connection and compassion.
How did the coronavirus pandemic affect your clients? Did it affect you at all?
The pandemic was a global mirror.
It magnified loneliness, anxiety and uncertainty, but it also revealed the fundamental human need for connection.
During that time, I joined my father in delivering food to elderly communities and witnessed how art, storytelling and simple shared presence could dissolve isolation.
I saw healing transcend language.
Professionally, I observed clients grappling not just with fear of illness, but with existential questions such as identity, purpose and fragility.
It deepened my commitment to relational and creative healing modalities.
The pandemic clarified that mental health is not merely individual.
It is systemic.
It strengthened my resolve to pursue advanced clinical training and continue advocating for integrative, biopsychosocial approaches that honour both vulnerability and resilience.
The Origin:
Tell us about you, your career, how you started with your coaching career?
My journey into healing did not begin in a therapy room.
It began in observation.
As a child, I was deeply curious about human behaviour, belief systems, suffering and meaning.
Art became my first language of understanding the world.
At fourteen, I began teaching drawing classes, not just to earn but to express.
What I did not realise then was that art was training me to listen beyond words.
I matured early due to personal adversity and what once felt like isolation became the soil of introspection.
People naturally sought me for guidance and over time I recognised that my gift was not advice.
It was attunement.
This path led me from art to art psychotherapy and eventually to systemic family practice in the UK, where I now work with children in need and care experienced young adults.
My career has never been about titles.
It has been about following the call of passion.
I do not see my journey as linear.
I see it as layered.
Each layer allows me to sit with complexity without trying to simplify it prematurely.
What was your biggest obstacle that you had to overcome in your life that made you who you are today?
My greatest obstacle was my own rigidity.
It was the belief that perfection equalled safety and achievement equalled worth.
For years, I believed certainty would protect me.
But rigidity limits growth.
It was only when I began questioning my own internal narratives that I experienced true expansion.
I realised that control is often fear in disguise.
Letting go of rigid self expectations allowed me to access flexibility, creativity and authentic confidence.
My obstacle was never circumstance.
It was perception.
And perception, once transformed, becomes liberation.
What are the biggest lessons that you learned overcoming your greatest obstacle?
I learned that awareness is power.
That we can unconsciously become the architects of our own limitation.
I learned that unconditional positive regard, especially toward oneself, is not indulgence but psychological necessity.
And I learned that self worth anchored externally will always feel unstable.
True security is internal coherence.
Growth requires humility.
It requires the willingness to admit that our old beliefs may no longer serve us.
The Coaching Style:
How do you innovate with coaching your clients?
Innovation in healing is not about inventing new techniques.
It is about expanding perception.
Every human being carries a unique psychological architecture shaped by biology, attachment, culture, trauma and belief.
I do not impose frameworks.
As a systemic clinician and art psychotherapist, I redefine the language of healing by integrating psychology, philosophy and creativity.
My work sits at the intersection of biopsychosocial science and human depth.
Rooted in Eastern contemplative wisdom and refined through Western clinical training, I bridge cultures, disciplines and perspectives.
I work not to fix individuals but to help them rediscover internal coherence, autonomy and psychological flexibility.
I integrate systemic thinking, trauma science, neuroscience, philosophy and creative modalities to meet clients exactly where they are.
Some understand through logic.
Others through metaphor.
Others through silence.
I speak multiple languages of the psyche.
My innovation lies in refusing reductionism.
I help individuals see that their anxiety, withdrawal or anger are not defects, but adaptive strategies.
When we shift from “What is wrong with me?” to “What happened to me and how did I survive it?” something reorganises internally.
That shift is transformational.
Healing begins when people feel deeply understood, not analysed, and remember who they were before fear shaped their identity.
What’s unique about your coaching approach?
What distinguishes my work is depth without dominance.
I do not position myself as the authority over someone else’s life.
I position myself as a guided witness in their remembering.
I combine art, systemic thinking, neuroscience, metaphor, psychoeducation, humour, silence and embodied awareness, but tools are secondary to presence.
I hold complexity without rushing resolution.
I refuse to reduce people to diagnoses or labels.
Clients often describe feeling seen in a way they cannot easily articulate.
That is because I listen beyond language.
I listen for narrative, for attachment patterns, for adaptive intelligence.
I meet people not as problems to be solved, but as systems to be understood.
What benefits do your clients get after working with you?
Clients leave with greater self awareness, emotional regulation and clarity about relational patterns.
They develop internal security rather than external dependency.
They reconnect with agency and self trust.
Most importantly, they shift from self judgment to self understanding.
When individuals understand their adaptations, shame dissolves and choice returns.
Empowerment replaces helplessness.
Do you use any specific tools to be efficient with your clients?
Yes, but the most powerful tool is mindful presence.
I use art based expression, narrative reframing, systemic formulation, psychoeducation grounded in biopsychosocial science, structured silence, humour, metaphor and autonomy based dialogue.
However, tools are effective only when delivered within a safe relational container.
Relationship carries the work… Techniques support it!
The Impact:
If you had a super megaphone that, when you speak into, the whole world will hear your message, what would you say?
You are not broken.
Your coping mechanisms once protected you.
Your anxiety, your withdrawal, your hyper independence were intelligent responses to experience.
Healing is not about erasing who you are… It is about updating what no longer serves you.
Slow down.
Listen inward.
The answers you seek externally are often waiting internally.
What is the greatest lesson you have learned in your life?
The greatest lesson I have learned is that healing is an ongoing relationship, not a destination.
- Forgiveness frees psychological energy.
- Gratitude shifts perception from scarcity to abundance.
- Acceptance creates peace with reality.
These are not abstract concepts.
They are daily disciplines.
When we practice them consistently, we cultivate psychological resilience and inner alignment.
Your final thoughts?
The future of healing lies in integration.
We must move beyond reductionist models and embrace the full complexity of human experience including biological, psychological, relational, cultural and existential dimensions.
In a world that moves fast and labels quickly, I choose depth, nuance and compassion.
My work is not about changing people.
It is about helping them remember who they are beneath adaptation.
That remembering is revolutionary.
Where Can You Find Urvi A. Gala?
If you liked this interview and if you would love to gain clarity and express the truth of your soul, see how Coach Urvi can help you.
If you’d like to peak a glimpse into her coaching, feel free to follow her Instagram account.
And if you’d like to connect more personally with her, you can do that through LinkedIn or by sending her a direct message via What’sApp or her Email [email protected]. It was an honor having this interview with her.
