Neil Turner

My practice offers online Psychotherapy for LGBTQ+ individuals and couples. I have a MA in Psychotherapy and over 15 years experience working with; shame, trauma, anxiety, stress, navigating open relationships, communication, sex and sexuality, building self-confidence, body dysmorphia and self-doubt. I also specialise in helping clients discover and strengthen their creativity as well as change career or life direction.

As an openly Gay man I offer an opportunity to explore freely and safely your experiences of sexuality, gender and difference as well as supporting you in exploring what might getting in the way of you feeling as confident or at ease within yourself as you would like. How would you like to feel about your self and your life and what is getting in the way of you achieving this?

Before training as a therapist I worked as a Designer and I now have an Art practice. Creativity plays a big part of my approach. Creativity is what we use to imagine worst case scenarios, self-limiting beliefs and stressful ideas about ourselves, life and our relationships. Therefore, we can also use creativity to change our minds in order to improve well being and feel more secure and confident. 

The aim of my practice is to discover together whatever is causing you distress and then to find the best and sustainable ways that will get you to where you would like to be. 

I see our work as a collaboration where we explore your obstacles, challenges and difficulties. My approach is friendly and conversational. 

I offer weekly 50 minute sessions and also twice weekly if there is a need and if I have the time. 

In my practice we explore the narratives and stories of your life. What makes you tick? What's causing distress? What's happened in the past that is impacting you today? What's missing in your life? What is stopping you from living the life you would like for yourself? What brings you inspiration? What would you do if fear were not an obstacle? We may follow particular themes or we may work more organically.

I also offer homework and exercises. 

In the first session we get to know each other a little, look at what brings you to therapy, what you are hoping to get out of it and to check that working with me is the right direction for you. There is no requirement to commit and you may want to go away and think about it. If you feel you would like to give it a go I offer 4 initial sessions as a trial period so you have plenty of time to test the waters.