Guy Turnbull
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About me
If you are finding life hard I want to help. I know how helping you to talk about your challenges can allow you feel understood and make changes. I will listen carefully and kindly and help you feel understood so you can increase your self belief and improve your wellbeing. I have worked with many different issues and I would like to talk with you to see if, together, we think that counselling with me could help you. If you want to feel happier and get more out of life I believe I can help you.
I listen carefully and without judgement. My responses are caring and honest and I will let you know how I have understood the things you have told me about your life. I will also explore with you how you want to be so you can change the parts of your life that are currently upsetting or difficult.
Past clients have often spoken very highly of the support they have had and you can read their feedback on my website. Call/email to tell me about the issues you want to work on and find out if you would like me to counsel you. You could be moving towards more meaning and happiness in life.
If you are on a lower income and my usual fee would cause you problems please call me. I arrange reduced fees for clients to make counselling accessible, I am happy to negotiate to see if we can agree a fee you can afford..
I am happy to counsel you about any issue but I have worked a great deal with clients who have experienced difficult relationships with parents or partners. I listen to and explore events that cause you problems and help you find new ways of looking at the feelings you have. I am told I am good at helping clients change their view of themselves in helpful ways and to be much less self critical
To talk to me about counselling call 07740 267664 or email. If I'm not available when you call, I will get back to you as soon as I can and always within twelve hours.
Counselling Children & Young People
I have trained to counsel Children and Young People on a University of Strathclyde course. I also have 24 years' experience as a primary school teacher, so I relate well to young clients. I recognise how many children and young people experience difficulites currently and I have realised in the course of my training how much counselling as a teenager would have helped me at a pivotal time in my life.
Feedback from Clients
Former clients are very happy and positive about their counselling with me. They tell me that I listen to them respectfully and that I don't show judgement or offer advice. They say they haven't felt so well listen to before and that they are more able to be honest about their difficulties. I'm told that counselling with me helps clients to feel more confident and develop new perspectives they have never considered before.
"Guy conducted himself with grace, kindness and compassion throughout, and I always felt like he had my back...I never thought, in all my 31 years, that I would feel so empowered and proud of the person I am. I finally feel comfortable in my own skin."
"I came to Guy in a very dark period and initially just wanted to find somebody to tell me what to do to make it right but Guy saw that by working through the situation with me, listening and pushing me, I could right it myself. That's both empowering and enduring. Guy was clear about his process, stayed true to it throughout, and was ultimately successful."
"I felt like Guy was always supportive and never judgemental, allowing me the time and space to talk through my feelings and to come to my own conclusions. He really helped me a lot and for that I am so grateful!"
"There were several times where he helped me to see a new perspective on things that I would not have found on my own. These moments were quite amazing; like the clouds parting and I had found a new way to see the world."
" I am now a new person. I do have some bad days now and again, but thanks to Guy I now see those as a blip and not a measure of my continued failure. He is a gentle, compassionate, understanding, empathic, professional, funny and wonderful counsellor and I am so grateful that we met and shared this journey together."
Training, qualifications & experience
I have been seeing clients since February 2015 and qualified as a counsellor in 2017 with an MA in Clinical Counselling from the University of Chester. I was a volunteer counsellor at Compass Counselling and The Brain Charity in Liverpool and then set up my own private practice in January 2020.
Clients I have worked with have experienced serious health problems, life-limiting illness, significantly challenging relationship difficulties, bereavement, anxiety and depression, PTSD, compulsive behaviour, childhood abuse, and asked to work with me because they are seeking meaning and purpose in life while managing the pressures of working and family life.
Training I have undertaken since I qualified has included the following areas:
- Managing risk when working with clients having suicidal thoughts
- Working with clients with long-term health conditions
- Transgender Diversity and Equality Awareness
- Supporting clients following sudden bereavement
- Counselling Children and Young Adults
- Trauma, PTSD and the Healing Process
- Counselling remotely using video platforms
- ‘Walk and talk’ counselling
I can offer short and long-term counselling and if you have a condition that prevents you from coming to my counselling room I will be happy to discuss the option of home visits. Please get in touch soon to arrange support with what you are finding difficult
Member organisations
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In 2013 the NCS register was accredited by the Professional Standards Authority under the Accredited Voluntary Register Scheme. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
Accredited register membership
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£60.00 per session
Free initial telephone session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
Private counselling shouldn't only be available to those with good incomes. If you are living on a low income and can't afford the usual session fee, please contact me to discuss your circumstances.
The standard fee for each session is £60 and is payable before the session in cash or by bank transfer. If you request a home visit, I will also charge travelling expenses that will be agreed in advance.
When I work
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My working hours are flexible. Please contact me to discuss your preference for an appointment time. I am happy to discuss possible weekend sessions on a case by case basis.
Further information
I am currently in the process of moving to new premises so I am currently only offerring Walk and Talk sessions and online sessions.
