Colin Turner

Colin Turner


Registered Member MBACP

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Therapist - Bridgend

Bridgend CF31
Sessions from £40.00

Features

  • Concessionary rates

Availability

I'm available online, and generally in the evening, Monday-Thursday, 5pm-7pm.

That's general availability. We may be able to talk about meeting on other days and/or at other times - that would be a result of our talking about it, and seeing what we can reach that works for both of us. Please don't be afraid to ask. 

About me and my therapy practice

I’m about helping.

If you're angry about something or everything - I can help.

If everything just seems overwhelming - I can help.

If the whole world just looks bleak and hostile - I can help.

If everybody's getting at you - I can help.

If you feel you don't know who you are - I can help.

If you don't LIKE who you are - I can help.

If you think you're getting nowhere at work or in your relationship - I can help.

How do I work?

I listen, I take you seriously, I give you all the space you need to get things off your chest.

I feed back to you what occurs to me based on my training, personality and experience, and you can respond or not to that as you will.

If you feel able to say what it is you want, we can look at suggestions and observations on how practical that is, and what steps we can take together to achieve it.

You can dismiss that at the time or take it on board as you like.

If you don't feel able to say what it is that you want, that obviously says something too, and that's something I take seriously and respect.

The fact that you are able to say that to me indicates that you have courage. And courage goes a long way in this game.

Together, with my professional training and experience, we can set up a programme of work and/or support that can bring you relief, show you that someone understands, and bring progress that can help you get to where you want to be.

We work together. You feed in how and what you're feeling. I feed in my professional and human responses and observation. Between the pair of us we progress towards what can be achieved to make you feel better.

I don't soft soap. I'm not a "nodding dog" who just smiles compassionately and sympathises with how you must be feeling and offers nothing more. I'm interested to make a safe space for you to approach, however tentatively, that which is causing you distress.

In that space I'll support you 100%. Together we can construct a route to get you out of where you are now, and to where you want to be.

Practice description

We don't confine ourselves to one way of doing things - we don't try to "pour you into a mould". 

Our counselling work fits you, rather than the other way round. That's part of me being "Integratively" trained. We integrate different compatible things into a tailor-made scheme for you. 

I professionally take things from all over, for us to shape into what particularly suits how you are, now, at this moment.

Depending on what you want and feel, we can work as intensely or as gently as you please. 

Nothing's set in stone. Each time we turn up to a counselling session, we're different from how we were last time. We change - so the way we do our counselling can change.

Above all, I'm here to listen to you. You can have as much time or as little time as you want, to say what you want. 

You want me to respond? I will. You don't want a response, just to say things: fine. That's where you are. 

That's the reality of the situation. 

You want me to challenge you? I'll offer you challenge. It's getting a bit much? We can back off, and kindly have a look at why.

If I get the feeling it would help if you engaged more, I'll raise that with you.

You may feel you agree, I which case we can act on it. 

But it may not feel right on your side. That's also useful. It tells us something important. We respect it, because it's true. 

Yes, we're here to bring about change, not just have a pleasant chat. After all, you're paying money for this and times are hard for us all.

Nonetheless, there may be times when a pleasant chat's all you can manage. It may be that that's what you need.

In which case we'll do that. 

It's all connected to the unconscious processing that never ceases, never stops. 

And every so often, something really interesting can emerge some time later - something that needed the breathing space that we gave it. 

There's an "Oh!" moment. And a real shift occurs. 

After what may have felt like an unrewarding grind, suddenly Getting Somewhere. 

And counselling feels like it's worth it. 

Because it is. 

My first session

We'll get to know each other a bit, and you can see how you feel about me. You can tell me what's getting at you.

I don't "clinicalise" you and submit you to a formal "medical" kind of assessment. That's more in the direction of psychiatry, and that's not my training, nor my counsellor identity. 

I will ask you some basic general things to get an idea of where you're coming from. Also some more bureaucratic things that are important and useful, such as your GP details and any medication you might be on currently. 

That done, we can have all the time and space you want. Maybe you just want to just "get things off your chest". Maybe you don't actually *know* what "it" is - only that you feel you need help.

I won't get in the way. But to the degree that you're happy to, I'll offer you my professional responses when things go quiet for a bit.

You can see what you think or feel about those. And if you can, tell me.

We can talk through what you would like to get sorted in the time and/or money that you have available. Normally I work in batches of 6 sessions - we can look at how that might suit you.

I'll help you with what might feel OK, especially if you find this kind of advance commitment scary or intimidating for you.

If you're happy with the six session structure, Session 6 usually sees us recapping, summarising, seeing what seems to have worked better than other things, and from there having a go at mapping out how to approach - or what to do in - the next six.

A lot of people find this works for them. It may for you, it may not - we can accept that and look at it. But there are also occasions too when even that structure comes off the rails. These times can be the most generative ones, the ones where some big change/s can happen. Everything is grist. Everything comes from something. Everything's got something to tell us. Nothing is waste. 

You may find that that makes you look forward to Session 2.

What I can help with

Cultural issues, Identity issues, LGBTQ+ counselling, Men's issues, Relationships, Self esteem, Sexual identity, Spirituality

Types of therapy

CBT, Eclectic, Existential, Humanistic, Integrative, Person centred, Psychodynamic, Relational, Transpersonal

Clients I work with

Adults, Older adults, Trainees

How I deliver therapy

Email therapy, Long term sessions, Online therapy, Short term sessions, Telephone therapy