Neil Turner UKCP MBACP - Individuals & Couples

About me

The aim of my work is to help you better understand the challenges and difficulties that you might be facing and as a result feel more confident within yourself, your life and your relationships.

I offer integrative Psychotherapy for both individuals and couples and have 10 years experience working with; anxiety, loss, self-doubt, relationship issues, depression, stress, sexuality and low self-esteem.

Below are a number of experiences that are often reported as result of therapy -

• Reduced feelings of panic and overwhelm.
• Gaining powerful tools to transform anxiety.
• Feeling more empowered at work.
  
• Addressing work/life balance.
• New ways to communicate within relationships.
• Feeling more confident within stressful situations.
• Clearer awareness of patterns in relationships.
  
• More enjoyment of life.

Psychotherapy offers a unique opportunity to gain new perspectives that may not have been considered. This opens things up and anxious beliefs that may have been the cause of stress for some time can start to shift and change. Tension, fear, stress and confusion begins to ease as more possibilities and understandings open up.

My background

Before working as a therapist I worked as a Designer and after decades within this field I decided to retrain and follow my passion for psychology and self-improvement. Having grown up in the wilds of Devon I studied design in Manchester and Australia before moving to London, which has been my home now for 25 years. London can be a tough place to live but what I love most about being here is the cultural and creative diversity.

I believe we all have the capacity to heal, change and grow beyond our difficulties, confusions and anxieties.

What to expect

For individuals -

We aim to meet on a weekly basis and this can be for a defined period of time or on an on-going arrangement. Our work is confidential and I provide a safe space for you to talk about the things that are troubling you. These may be be current or they may be difficulties that you've been struggling with for some time. I ask all clients to keep a psychotherapy journal in which to make notes, record dreams and do some of the exercises I offer. It helps to have a record so that you can assess how things will have progressed and changed.

For couples -

Often couples who come to work with me describe having lost connection with each other. This loss of connection is very painful and is often at the heart of most relationship conflict. I see much of my work as helping couples to find their way back into connection.

Generally, we aren't taught how to be in a relationship or how best to express our needs and fully understand the needs of our partner. What I offer is an opportunity for couples to learn new ways to communicate and as a result develop a deeper understanding of yourself, your partner and the relationship itself.

Some of the Issues I've worked with (individuals and couples) include -

• Fear & anxiety
• Self-doubt
• Partnerships & marriages
• Stress
• Loss and bereavement
• Addiction
• Social anxiety
• Sex and sexuality
• Relationship & family issues
  
• Sexual abuse
• Low self-esteem
• Depression
• LGBT issues
• Compulsive behaviour
• Body dysmorphia
• Trauma
• Affairs & betrayal
  
• Shame
  
• ME and health issues

In my practice I draw on various therapeutic models and techniques including; Psychodynamic, Imago, Gestalt, Transpersonal, Psycho-sexual, Existential and Transactional Analysis.