The only child of Jewish parents who fled Vienna in 1939, Irene was born into a small community of refugees who found sanctuary in Londonderry, N. Ireland. From her early teens, she searched for a spirituality she could relate to. After her divorce in 1972, Irene migrated to Melbourne, Australia with her twin sons, and it was there that she discovered CG Jung. This opened up a whole new world for her and led to her doing a Psychology degree as a mature age student, part time, while working in IT and bringing up her teenage sons. It took her eleven years. During this time Irene underwent almost seven years of analysis with a Jungian analyst and also became a hypnotherapist. She eventually found the Universal Sufism of Hazrat Inayat Khan. This was what she had been longing for. After being initiated as a Sufi she was given the name Nuria. Nuria has given talks at the CG Jung Society in Melbourne, leads meditation groups, retreats and leads a Sufi Group in Melbourne. She is the national representative of the International Sufi Movement in Australia and has written articles for the Sufi Journal, Towards the One, which is unfortunately no longer published (since the GFC).