Peter Turner

My Primary office hours are 10 - 6 Monday - Wednesday and Friday. I am available for evening and weekend appointments upon request.

I work with my clients using a range of strategies pulled from:

The active approach of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to help people combat problematic thoughts and behaviours.

The explorative and collaborative approach of Person Centred Therapy to uncover the emotions fuelling the problematic thoughts and behaviours and to help clients heal the pain from the experiences that started it all.

I work from a base of a person centred and relational approach. That means building a relationship with you and exploring issues together, building an understanding of what the problem is.

It's then about mapping out how we will work to tackle those problems, forming an agreement between us for how to work together moving forward.

I believe the biggest and hardest step is asking for help. It's especially hard when the people around you don't seem to understand why you can't just magically act differently, feel differently.

I'm very much an optimist, I believe that if we work at it we can always change and overcome what holds us back. I encourage you to take that first step.

I offer late appointments, I understand many of us have a lot of commitments on our time. 

At the moment I am only available for remote working either Video (zoom, teams, whataspp, etc.) or Audio (phone, whataspp, etc.).

The first session (free) would be primarily an assessment and planning session. Both for me to assess your needs against my capability and for you to assess whether you would feel comfortable working with me.

I believe Therapy is not just a professional interaction but a meeting of minds, it is therefore important for us to figure out if we would work well together.

We would get to know each other a little, you tell me what has brought you to therapy and I will tell you a little of myself, how I work and how I would work with what you've shared.

We would then create a basic plan for our work together which we will update as necessary.

Then finally if we are both satisfied we will contract to work together.

For more information, I will always send out an information sheet to prospective clients and you can read more on my website.