Rachael Turner Therapy - Accredited Psychotherapist

08/09/2026

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06/09/2026

05/09/2026

🌸 Saturday thoughts from the therapy room 🌸

This is me.

17 years old. And a mum.

I was thinking about this today and about how we sometimes look back at our younger selves and judge them with the knowledge, experience and perspective we have now.

And I don't think that's always fair.

Because she didn't have all that.

She was 17.

She was still growing up herself, still learning about life, relationships, emotions, responsibility and who she was, whilst also trying to figure out how to be a mum.

Being a teenage mum is hard.

And looking at this photograph now, 30 years later, I can see how young I actually was.

But at the time?

I didn't feel particularly young.

I was a mum. I had responsibilities. I had to get on with things.

And I think that's something we can forget when we look back at ourselves.

The us now know what happened next; we know the mistakes we made; we know the things we'd do differently.

But our younger selves didn't.

They were making decisions with the information, experience and emotional maturity they had at that point in their lives.

My younger children have known a very different version of me.

They've known me older. More experienced. More confident. Hopefully a little wiser.

They didn't know this girl.

And sometimes I think we need to look back at the younger versions of ourselves in the same way we'd look at any young person who was trying their best.

With a bit more compassion.

Rather than:

“Goodness me, what was I thinking?!

Maybe:

“You know what? You were doing your best."

Because you were.

So if you find yourself looking back at something your younger self did and cringing -

Be kinder to them.

They didn't know then what you know now 🫶🧡

Rachael Turner
Psychotherapist and EMDR Practitioner

04/09/2026

26 years ago, I didn't have a clue 😂

Well I knew how to be a therapist!

I didn't know how to run a private practice.

And so much of what I've learned over the years has been through trial, error, experience… and occasionally thinking “there must be an easier way to do this!”

So I'm putting 26 years of Psychotherapy and private practice experience, along with facilitating over 30 thousand counselling sessions, into a 2-hour online Masterclass for counsellors & psychotherapists.

We'll be talking about the practical stuff you don't necessarily learn on your training, including -

Your cancellation policy.

It sounds like a boring bit of admin.

It isn't.

A good cancellation policy can save you an enormous amount of stress - but only if it's actually written properly and, more importantly, consistently applied.

I've learned this one the hard way over the years!

It's one of the things we'll be talking about in my Masterclass.

Not counselling skills. Not another therapy training course.

Just the real-life stuff about running your own private practice - including the things I wish someone had told me 26 years ago 🧡

• Online via Teams
• Friday, 16th Oct 1-3pm
• Limited places
• £20 per person

Contact me to add your name to the list of attendees.

01/09/2026

Stumbled across this photo of the CCATS team I worked with over in Lancaster and Morecambe circa 2009! This was at our office based at Lancaster University. It was a 2 year project we ran over there and I was the allocated Psychotherapist and worked in many of the primary and high schools across all of those areas! At the first multi disciplinary team meeting we attended as new kids on the block, our team manager introduced me as the allocated Physiotherapist! 😂😂 Happy memories 🥰🥰

01/09/2026

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Happy 1st of September 🍁🍂