Teresa Turner

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location_on Canterbury, Kent, CT1 2NF
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About me

‘Each of us needs to be known and to be seen: from here, healing can begin.’ 
 
Hello there.

I am here to help you with whatever you are experiencing. Healing starts with being known and being seen by your therapist and, through this relationship, creating a sense of safety to get to know more about yourself and explore the issues that brought you to counselling. I offer a safe, compassionate and non-judgmental space for you to bring your concerns – you, and your thoughts and feelings, are valid.
 
The aim of our work is to increase your awareness of yourself, your inner world and your responses. This allows a full exploration of matters affecting you and then the process of either gaining acceptance or making desired changes. We will work at a pace that you are comfortable with, ensuring that you don’t feel overwhelmed.
 

Training, qualifications & experience

  • CPCAB Level 4 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling
  • CPCAB Level 3 Certificate in Counselling Studies
  • CPCAB Level 2 Certification in Counselling Skills
  • Certificate in Somatic Trauma Therapy
  • BACP registered member

As a member of the BACP, I am committed to their Ethical Framework ensuring that I observe the highest standards of practice and professionalism. This includes a commitment to ongoing professional development and training.
 
In addition to my private practice, I also volunteer one day a week with a local counselling charity. I also trained with Place2Be in London, a children’s mental health charity, and I worked with them as a Volunteer Counsellor in a senior school for 18 months.

Member organisations

BACP
British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP)

BACP is one of the UK’s leading professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy with around 60,000 members. The Association has several different categories of membership, including Student Member, Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP, Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Accred) and Senior Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Snr Acccred). Registered and accredited members are listed on the BACP Register, which shows that they have demonstrated BACP’s recommended standards for training, proficiency and ethical practice. The BACP Register was the first register of psychological therapists to be accredited by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA). Accredited and senior accredited membership are voluntary categories for members who choose to undertake a rigorous application and assessment process to demonstrate additional standards around practice, training and supervision. Individual members will have completed an appropriate counselling or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but they won’t appear on the BACP Register until they've demonstrated that they meet the standards for registration. Student members are still in the process of completing their training. All members are bound by the BACP Ethical Framework and a Professional Conduct Procedure.

Accredited register membership

British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy
Accredited Register Scheme

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British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy

Areas of counselling I deal with

Therapies offered

Fees

£45.00 per session
Free initial online session

Concessions offered for

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  • check_circle Keyworkers
  • check_circle OAPs
  • check_circle Students
  • check_circle Trainee counsellors
  • check_circle Unemployed
  • check_circle Refugees

Additional information

It's important to me that finances do not form a barrier to access to counselling.  I therefore offer concessionary rates and a number of low / no cost spaces.  Please feel free to speak to me in confidence if this affects you.

When I work

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Further information

Who I am
I came to counselling through an unusual route, working as an actuary in the financial world and then retraining and becoming a nurse in a deprived area of West Scotland. The breadth of my life experiences and my personal experience of receiving excellent quality counselling inform my approach to counselling clients. Whether my experiences and yours' are familiar or not even remotely similar, I will do my best to fully see and understand you in the context of your life, appreciating and seeing your uniqueness.
 
How I work
My approach is to see the individual, using my knowledge and experience to meet their needs through a humanistic and relational approach.

Lombard House, 12 - 17 Upper Bridge Street, Canterbury, Kent, CT1 2NF

Type of session

In person
Online
Phone
Home visits

Types of client

Young people (13-17)
Young adults (18-24)
Adults (25-64)
Older Adults (65+)

Key details

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