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.

I don’t want my workshops to help you in some abstract, long-term, hard-to-measure way.I want them to help in a practica...
23/06/2026

I don’t want my workshops to help you in some abstract, long-term, hard-to-measure way.

I want them to help in a practical, immediate, felt-in-your-body-the-next-morning way.

One of the things I love most about running workshops rather than only one-to-one sessions is the group dynamic.

People who arrive as strangers and recognise themselves in each other within minutes. The collective exhale when someone shares what the others have been thinking for a long time.

My workshop was fully booked. And because the waiting list kept growing after the spaces were gone, I'm running it again in July!

But I'm also running a six-week programme. For the people who want to go deeper, beyond the introduction, into the skills themselves. Proper, structured, DBT-informed work over six weeks that builds on everything the workshop introduces.

If you'd like to be first to hear, about the July workshop, the six-week programme, or both, comment or below and I'll make sure you're on the list. 💛

18/06/2026

In DBT, we talk about something called Building Mastery.

The idea is simple but the practice is everything: you set yourself a challenge that will be difficult and take you out of your comfort zone, while still being realistic. Not so easy it doesn't stretch you. Not so hard you give up before it sticks.

Get that balance right, and you don't just develop the skill. You develop the belief that you are someone who can do hard things.

Watching my daughter do gymnastics, I see Building Mastery in action every single week.
The physical challenge is obvious. But what is evident to me is how much of it is psychological.

Overcoming the fear before a new skill. Falling, and getting back up without catastrophising. Staying with the discomfort of not being there yet. Pushing through the moment when every part of you wants to stop, and discovering that you can.

These are not gymnastics skills.
These are life skills.

Resilience. Persistence. The ability to tolerate difficulty without running from it. The confidence that comes not from being told you're capable, but from proving it to yourself, repeatedly, in a sport that has no interest in letting you off the hook.

I couldn't be more proud of her.

And I couldn't be more convinced that what she has learned on that mat will serve her in ways neither of us can fully see yet.

Building Mastery doesn't require gymnastics, by the way. It requires finding the thing that stretches you just enough, and showing up for it consistently.
What's yours? 💛

17/06/2026

This is exactly what I set out to do, take something that can feel overwhelming and clinical, and make it genuinely accessible, practical and something you can use straight away.

The workshop a week ago now was fully booked.

And even on the day itself, the enquiries kept coming after all the spaces were gone. People who had been watching, thinking about it, nearly booking, and then found themselves on a waiting list instead.

So I've made a decision. 👀
The workshop is running again in July 🎉!

Same format:
Two hours.
Online.
Everything you need to begin understanding your emotional world and leave with real, practical tools to work with it.

If you missed out last time, or you've been thinking about it and haven't quite taken the step yet, this is your moment.

Comment below or send me a message and I'll add you to the list. You'll hear the date first and have first pick of the spaces. 💛

I don't just work with clients directly. I also write therapy programmes and modules for other specialists and organisat...
16/06/2026

I don't just work with clients directly. I also write therapy programmes and modules for other specialists and organisations, people who come to me specifically because of my DBT expertise and ask me to create something they can't find elsewhere.

One of those collaborations is with ADHDed, a psychiatry-led organisation that talks about ADHD outside of the stereotypes, in a way that actually reflects how it feels to live with it.

Their founder, Judith Mohring, a psychiatrist who specialises in ADHD, approached me to write an emotion regulation module for her programmes. So I did. A six-week DBT-informed module, written specifically for people with ADHD, covering the emotional intensity, the overwhelm, the impulsivity, the relationship difficulties that so often come with it but rarely get the attention they deserve.

This is work I love, getting evidence-based, DBT-informed skills into the hands of the people who need them most, through the organisations and specialists already serving them.

If you work with clients or employees who would benefit from structured, evidence-based emotional regulation support, whether that's a one-off workshop, a full programme, or something written specifically for your context, I'd love to hear from you.

This is something I do. And I'd be glad to do more of it. 💛

Tuesday night was BRILLIANT. Just wanted to share a huge thank you to everyone who joined me online.Some of you were com...
11/06/2026

Tuesday night was BRILLIANT. Just wanted to share a huge thank you to everyone who joined me online.

Some of you were coming to this work for the first time, some were returning clients who wanted a refresher, some were therapists and practitioners and we spent two hours together learning about emotion regulation.

The feedback has been wonderful. And the waiting list, because yes, this one reached capacity, tells me there is real appetite for this work.

So. Round two is coming in July.

If you missed out this time, or you've been on the fence and needed a nudge, this is your chance to get on the next one before it fills up again.

Comment below or message me directly and I'll add you to the list. You'll be the first to hear when the date is confirmed and the first to secure your place. 💛

10/06/2026

Most people think emotional dysregulation looks like losing your temper or crying “over nothing.”

It doesn't always.

Sometimes it looks like a second glass of wine that becomes a third, or a sleep pattern that's been broken for so long you've forgotten what rested feels like.

Perhaps a relationship that you feel you are constantly having to repair.

The connection between 𝘂𝗻𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗲𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 and 𝗽𝗵𝘆𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 is one of the most underappreciated and overlooked things in wellness.

Your nervous system doesn't distinguish between an emotion you've expressed and one you've buried; it simply registers: unfinished business (and then holds that in your body).

For some people, that's anxiety. For others, it's their gut, their skin, their immune system, their sleep, the thing they reach for at the end of a hard day.

I know this because I've lived it, and I also know that it changes, because mine did. This is the reason I do this work, the way I do it, with the conviction I bring to it.

If your body has been trying to tell you something for a while and you've been too busy, too tired, or too unsure where to start to listen, this is a gentle nudge.

Drop me a message or comment below. 💛

09/06/2026

Tonight. 7pm. Two hours that change how you understand yourself. This is the last chance.

Tonight is not a magic fix. It's two hours. But it's two hours of something most people never receive, a clear, honest explanation of what your emotions actually are, why yours respond the way they do, and what to do about it in the moments that are actually hard.

No prior knowledge needed, no homework, no expectation that you arrive as anything other than yourself. Just come!

Comment or message me right now and I'll get you the link before 7pm. 💛

04/06/2026

We are taught so many things.

How to read. How to calculate. How to perform well enough to be acceptable to other people.

Nobody sits us down and says: this is what an emotion is. This is what it's trying to tell you. This is what your nervous system is doing when you feel flooded, or shut down, or stuck on something you can't let go of. This is what to do in that moment.

So we figure it out ourselves.

We learn to hide. Or to explode. Or to intellectualise everything and wonder why we still feel it anyway.

We develop coping strategies that work just well enough to keep us functioning, and cost us just enough to keep us exhausted.

And then we wonder why understanding ourselves doesn't seem to translate into actually changing anything.

This is where I start.

In two hours I'll give you what you were never given: a clear, practical, evidence-based understanding of your emotional world, and real tools to work with it.

Less than a week to go.
Tuesday 9th June. 7–9pm. Online.
Spaces are filling up fast. Comment to secure yours. 💛

…and one choice that will be the difference between continuing to struggle with your emotions and actually having the to...
03/06/2026

…and one choice that will be the difference between continuing to struggle with your emotions and actually having the tools to move through them in a healthier way.

If something in the last few weeks has resonated, if you've read something and thought 'that's me' then you already know this workshop is for you.

You don't need to be sure. You don't need to be ready. You just need to be curious.

Two hours. Tuesday night. I'll see you there.
Comment or message me directly, spaces are nearly gone. 💛

This is why.This is why I do the work I do, in the way I do it, with the commitment I give it.This is what becomes possi...
02/06/2026

This is why.

This is why I do the work I do, in the way I do it, with the commitment I give it.

This is what becomes possible when someone is finally given the tools, the space, and the understanding they were never given before.

You are not too sensitive. Too reactive. Too much.

You do not have to keep white-knuckling your way through your own emotional world.

There is another way. And it is learnable. My two-hour beginners' workshop is less than one week away. Tuesday 9th June. 7–9pm. Online.

Comment or message me directly. Spaces are nearly gone. 💛

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Sudbury
Suffolk

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Monday 9:30am - 5pm
Tuesday 9:30am - 5pm
Wednesday 9:30am - 5pm
Thursday 9:30am - 5pm
Friday 9:30am - 5pm

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