Sharon Turner

Your chance to make changes to your life

There has been so much change for us all over the last few years, presenting many challenges to our sense of self and within our relationships.  Many are experiencing anxiety and depression. Many have experienced some type of loss, be it through death or changes to their circumstances and are still navigating a variety of issue.  Are you experiencing or struggling to come to terms with issues such as health, loss, trauma, or family issues creating relationship difficulties? These can lead to uncomfortable feelings creating anxiety, stress, depression or grief.  Difficult feelings can affect work, social and home life which impact on health or self-esteem and self-worth.  Changes to our environments can add to both individuals and couples’ difficulties. Difficult experiences in your present or in your past may be affecting you now as you navigate the changes life is dealing you. Through counselling you have the opportunity to develop your self-awareness or understanding to promote acceptance or change. You have the potential to achieve positive growth through exploration in a safe and confidential relationship. Through counselling there is an opportunity for self-development and healing.

Who I work with and my approach

I work with adults across all ages from individuals, couples, EAP companies and charities offering a confidential face to face, webcam and telephone counselling service. Focusing on you and your experience, using a variety of tools to help you whatever your difficulties, my approach is tailored to your individual or couple needs. Through our relationship we can look at building your resilience to cope with life's challenges and losses; to make sense of your experience. You choose what you want to bring to our sessions and no issue is too big or too small if it matters to you. Are you struggling to accept the changes life's challenges bring? I offer a safe and confidential space to explore issues that are unique to each client with warmth, empathy and through a non-judgmental relationship to empower you to explore issues that are important to you.

Believing in self-direction, I work using a person-centred approach with individuals utilising solution-focused brief therapy and transactional analysis if appropriate to your needs, and provide a structured integrative approach with couples covering a variety of issues. Each client is unique so I work with you and your beliefs, thoughts and values putting you at the centre of our work together.

Where I work and my experience

I have worked as a counsellor for 7 years and provide support through my private practice to individuals and couples. I have experience working with carers within a charitable organisation, patients with life-limiting condition within the NHS and an associate counsellor with a bereavement organisation.   I also work with adult clients across cultures including LGBTQ, all age groups, and have worked with students within a University setting helping clients who have experienced sexual trauma.

In all areas of my work, I see clients experiencing a range of issues, sometimes relating to specific conditions including anxiety, work-related stress, bereavement, loss, coping with change, suicidal thoughts and depression. During the pandemic I see many struggles within the self or within couples. I provide counselling to clients requiring long or short-term counselling working in therapeutic spaces in Nottingham and via Teams. I welcome referrals for individuals, couples, charities, EAP companies and professional organisations.

I have experience working with trauma which can be experienced in many different situations, including caused through COVID-19. I have specific experiencing supporting trauma through rape and sexual abuse which includes working with flashbacks, PTSD, self-esteem, panic attacks and shame. These are relatable to any trauma that impacts on client's life. This can particularly affect new or current relationships whether trauma be experienced in the past or present.

I have an Advanced Couples Counselling Certificate working with communication and difference, individual and couple’s needs, conflict and affairs.

Any issue important to you is important to me. Assessments are made within the first appointment with no further obligation for further sessions if appropriate.

How to contact me

You can telephone or email me to set up an initial consultation face to face or via Teams to discuss your counselling needs for my standard fee. Please do not contact me via text for consultation. After the initial consultation, we can set up weekly or fortnightly sessions face to face or via Teams. Cancellations require a 48 hours’ notice or full fees will be charged.

Short or long-term counselling available.  EAP work considered.

Life-limiting conditions

Difficulty living with changes in life including relationship with self and others

£45 per hour individuals.

£60 per hour couples.

Additional Professional Development undertaken to date:

• Certificate of Proficiency (BACP)
• Working online
• Working at Relational Depth
• Grief and Loss
• Actualising our Deepest Direction
• Goals in Therapy
• Existential Contributions to Therapy
• Safeguarding and Managing Risk through Digital Media
• Baby Loss
• Working with Bereaved People
• Complicated Grief
• Web of Shame
• Dissociation and Trauma
• Achieving Safety and Stabilisation in Phase One Trauma Therapy
• Adults who Experienced Sexual Abuse as Children
• Societal Rape Myths and Traumatic Reactions
• Disclosure, Safeguarding & the Criminal Justice Process: Understanding Your Obligations to Survivors of Abuse.
• GDPR
• Sex Arousal and Ageing: Couples Counselling
• Communication and Difference: Couples Counselling
• Meeting Partners Needs: Couples Counselling
• Fundamentals of Couples Therapy: Couples Counselling
• Couples in Conflict; Couples Counselling
• Dealing with Affairs; Couples Counselling
• BACP Children, Young People and Families Conference 2019 & Working with risk; the therapist's dilemma.

• Working with tools; using objects in therapy

• Addiction,  the Brain and Recovery
• Working with Shame
• Queering Gender and Diversity
• Helping Clients Deal with their Anger 
• Self Compassion and Self Care