Sarah Turner Therapy

Sarah Turner Therapy Helping you manage intense emotions and overwhelm so you feel more in control of your life.

Accredited BACP registered therapist & fully trained DBT Therapist.

•Programmes •Workshops •1:1s I originally trained as an integrative counsellor and have since specialised in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy. I am an accredited, registered member of the largest counselling and psychotherapy regulatory body in the UK the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). I have been in pr

ivate practice since 2007 as well as working for charities and in more recent years The Priory Group. I have a specialist training in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy to support those suffering the traits of Personality Disorder, chronic anxiety and depression as well as other mental health disorders. I deliver Dialectical Behaviour Therapy in skills groups as well as DBT informed 1:1 sessions. I regularly attend CPD training in my areas of interest as is mandatory for BACP members. I am available for therapy sessions over Zoom, FaceTime, WhatsApp video and telephone.

A picture says a thousand words. But it doesn't show what it takes to get to that point.Eleanor has overcome so much to ...
03/09/2026

A picture says a thousand words. But it doesn't show what it takes to get to that point.

Eleanor has overcome so much to get here. Three years getting a degree in musical theatre. Another year, unpaid, completing an apprenticeship so she could qualify as a teacher.

Followed by an extensive and stressful hunt for a job, during a time when it felt like there weren't any.

Wondering if all that training would ever actually lead anywhere. We even ended up in the paper talking about it, because it felt like a crisis that too many young people (and their parents) are experiencing these days.

And now here she is, ready to meet her new class.

Unbelievably proud of the tenacity both my girls have demonstrated in pursuing their passions, tough as it's been at times.

I don't know what Eleanor's students will remember about her in ten years. But I know she'll be the kind of teacher who understands what it's like to keep showing up when things aren't working out yet, because she's lived it herself. What a quality to pass on to your students!

(P.S That’s my car she’ll be taking after passing her driver’s test a mere week ago! Just to add to the excitement! 😆)

02/09/2026

What you just watched is your nervous system.

The bottle is what happens when emotions are suppressed. They keep arriving, because that's what emotions do but there's nowhere for them to go, so they build.

Pressure with nowhere to release, until something small drops in, a tone of voice, a minor inconvenience, a message that lands wrong, and the 𝘄𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗲𝗿𝘂𝗽𝘁𝘀.

That eruption is what people call losing it, snapping, reacting in a way that feels disproportionate to what actually happened. Swiftly followed by the shame spiral.

And then the aftermath. You're left with an empty bottle. Drained, foggy, sometimes even numb, because that wasn't a healthy release, it was a rupture and ruptures don't leave you steady, they leave you depleted.

The emotion isn't the problem here; it's the lack of somewhere for it to go.

Regulation is completely different. The emotions still come (that is simply a fact of life!) but we're not trying to stop them, or feel less, or become someone unaffected by things, or perform a “state of calm” that doesn’t exist.

We're simply creating a way for it to move through.

A small, deliberate, learnable release, so nothing builds to a pressure that eventually forces its way out sideways, and leaves you empty afterwards.

That's what emotional regulation actually is and it is exactly what we build, skill by skill, in the six-week 𝗘𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗲, starting Tuesday 15th September.

If you're tired of the eruption-then-empty cycle, this is where you learn the tap instead.

Comment for more details.

01/09/2026

She used to apologise for saying no, then say yes anyway, then resent it for days.

Six weeks later, she said no to something that didn't align with her, and felt nothing but relief. No guilt spiral. No 11pm replaying. Just... peace with the decision.

That's not a personality change. That's a skills change. DBT gives you the actual tools to hold a boundary without your nervous system treating it like a crisis.

If that sounded familiar, the six-week programme starts 𝗧𝘂𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝟭𝟱𝘁𝗵 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿, but enrolment closes Thursday 𝟭𝟬𝘁𝗵. Comment below and I'll send you the details!

Most people think regulating your emotions means suppressing them and getting better at pushing them down. Being "less,"...
27/08/2026

Most people think regulating your emotions means suppressing them and getting better at pushing them down. Being "less," less 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦, less 𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦, less 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩.

It's not. It's learning what your emotions are actually telling you, so you stop being at their mercy.

This is not the first time a client has said words like this to me. I've watched clients use these exact skills to leave jobs they hated, finally ask for the raise they were scared to bring up, rebuild relationships they thought were unsalvageable, and say no without the guilt eating them alive for days after.

None of that happens by suppressing more; it happens by understanding better.

If you want to know what that could look like for you, the six-week programme opens for enrolment now. Starting Tuesday 15th September. 7–9pm online.

Comment below for more details.

26/08/2026

If "just calm down" actually worked, none of us would still be googling at 11pm.

Emotional intensity isn't a personality flaw, and it's definitely not something you can logic your way out of mid-meltdown. It's a skills gap.

Nobody ever taught you what to actually do when the emotion hits, so you snap now and wallow in your failures later.

No wonder you’re knackered by 8pm or cancelling plans again because you can't face holding it all together.

You were told you were too soft, that your feelings were too big, that you were “overreacting.” NONE of that is true. You just never learned the skills that make being a sensitive soul manageable.

That's exactly what six weeks of DBT skills in Behaviour Regulation can build. Practical tools you can USE in the moments it matters.

Spaces are limited to 10. The programme starts:
𝗧𝘂𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝟭𝟱𝘁𝗵 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿.
𝟳–9𝗽𝗺 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲.

To reserve your place message me directly or comment below 💛

25/08/2026

Ever come home from a long day when you simply haven’t had the chance to eat for hours, but then you feel 𝗽𝗵𝘆𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗮𝗽𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳?

“I'𝘮 𝘩𝘶𝘯𝘨𝘳𝘺, 𝘐 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘐 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘢𝘵, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘐 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘰 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘵."

This happens in our household more than I would like to admit. We’re all adults here; surely we should be able to feed ourselves? It's not exactly a complex task.

Except sometimes it is. This is executive dysfunction in its clearest, most everyday form, and it's incredibly common with ADHD.

It's not about willpower or laziness. It's about planning, sequencing, stringing together a series of steps in the right order, and when that's impaired, even "make a meal" stops being simple.

It reminds me of this scene in Apollo 13: the ground engineers get handed a random pile of objects and told: this is everything the astronauts have on board; now figure out how to make the thing that saves their lives, using only this.

That's what it can feel like to stand in a kitchen, hungry, staring at a fridge full of "ingredients," with no idea how to turn any of it into food.

This is exactly the kind of thing I explore in the six-week programme I created with Dr Judith Mohring at ADHDed: why emotion regulation can feel especially hard when you're ADHD, and what actually helps. Feeding yourself is just one small example of a much bigger pattern.

Anyone else find themselves standing in the kitchen like this more often than they'd like to admit?

The last couple of months have been A LOT to contend with.Poorly pet, poorly family members and navigating my own health...
20/08/2026

The last couple of months have been A LOT to contend with.

Poorly pet, poorly family members and navigating my own health challenges (oh the joys of midlife!).

This photo was taken on my daughter’s last day of school EVER. And just last week we received news of her exceptional results.

Esmé, you are extraordinary. Not just for the results, though they are brilliant. For who you are, how hard you work, and the way you carry yourself through things that would floor most people.

Neil and I have done a lot of things together over the years but watching our daughters step into their own lives brings up so many different emotions.

Pride and grief and joy and relief, all at once.

So proud of you, Es. The world has absolutely no idea what's coming. 💛

19/08/2026

You knew, even as it was happening, that it wasn't the right response.

You could see it. You just couldn't stop it.

That moment, between the emotion arriving and the reaction leaving your mouth, your phone, your body, is one of the most painful places to live because the shame that follows isn't just about what happened. It's about the fact that you knew and still couldn't stop it.

This is not a character flaw.

It is what happens when an intense emotion floods the system faster than the thinking brain can catch up. The impulse fires before the considered response has a chance to form.

And it is one of the things that can be changed.

In week four of my six-week emotion regulation programme, we work specifically on impulse control, the DBT skills that create just enough of a gap between feeling something and acting on it for a different choice to become possible.

An actual skill you can learn that works in the actual moment.

The programme starts 𝗧𝘂𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝟭𝟱𝘁𝗵 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿. 7–9pm online.

To reserve your place message me directly or email [email protected] 💛

18/08/2026

This is one of the things I hear most often.

"𝘐'𝘷𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘺. 𝘐 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘺𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭. 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘐 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘤𝘢𝘯'𝘵 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘮 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵."

And the frustrating thing is, of course you can’t! Most therapeutic approaches are extraordinarily good at helping you understand your story. Where your patterns come from. Why you respond the way you do. What shaped you. That understanding is valuable, to an extent.

But understanding why you react the way you do and being able to change that reaction in real life situations are two completely different skills and most therapy only teaches one of them.

DBT is different because it starts somewhere most approaches never go.

𝗗𝗕𝗧 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗲𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀.

What they are.
What they're telling you.
Why yours arrive with such intensity.
And what to do, practically, in the moment, when the feeling is loud and the old, damaging response is on the tip of your tongue.

That is the missing piece.

My 𝘀𝗶𝘅-𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸 𝗲𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗲 begins Tuesday 15th September. It is built entirely around DBT skills, the most evidence-based approach available for people who feel things intensely and have spent years trying to manage that alone.

If therapy gave you understanding but not tools, this is what comes next.

7–9pm online. Maximum 10 spaces.

Message me or email [email protected] to reserve your place. 💛

13/08/2026

THIS is what it’s supposed to look like.

These girls are, technically, competing against each other. Every point one of them gains is a point another one doesn't.

And yet...

The loudest cheering in that room came from the girls waiting their turn, claps and encouragement for a landed routine that wasn't even theirs.

Why does it feel almost rare to see this?

Somewhere between girlhood and womanhood, a lot of us lose this ability to see beyond the competition.

We start treating other women's wins as a measure of our own worth. We compare instead of cheer. We refuse to acknowledge someone else’s success.

These girls haven't learned that.

Watching them, I found myself wanting to be a bit more like these 18-year-old gymnasts supporting my daughter during her routine.

They are genuinely thrilled when someone else in the room does well. Loud about it, even. Competing against someone and being in their corner can coexist.

The lesson here is so simple but so beautiful: just clap for her!

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