Rachael Turner Therapy - Accredited Psychotherapist

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Rachael Turner Therapy - Accredited Psychotherapist

Psychotherapist & EMDR therapist with 25 years experience. I work with children(3+), young people, adults, couples and families.

I am also a service provider for Social Services and LCC schools. I offer trauma informed consultation for professionals ❤️ I offer a free 15 min phone call, as way of introduction. EMDR appts are 1 hour and charged at £100; all other therapies are 50 min appts and charged at £75 for private referrals and school referrals. Social care and court referrals are charged at £130.

16/08/2026

Wise words! 🫶💪🧡

15/08/2026

🌸Saturday Thoughts from the Therapy Room 🌸

Did you know, your brain isn’t always telling you the truth!

One of the things I find myself saying in the therapy room quite often is -

“Thoughts are not facts, they’re just thoughts.”

Our brains are incredibly clever. They are constantly scanning, predicting, making connections and trying to keep us safe.

But sometimes they get it wrong!

An anxious brain can turn “What if something goes wrong?” into “Something is definitely going to go wrong.”

A worried brain can turn “They haven't replied yet” into “I've obviously upset them.”

A self-critical brain can turn “I made a mistake” into “I'm useless.”

And because the thought is happening inside our own head, it can feel like fact.

But there is a really important difference between having a thought and believing a thought

Try adding these little words -

“I'm having the thought that..”

It creates just a tiny bit of distance.

Instead of -

“Nobody likes me.”

Try -

“I'm having the thought that nobody likes me.”

Instead of -

“I can't cope.”

Try -

“I'm having the thought that I can't cope.”

That little shift can remind us that thoughts are not instructions, predictions or facts. They are simply thoughts, and they can be questioned.

We can’t control the thoughts that come into our head. And that’s ok. And maybe the goal isn’t about trying to stop difficult thoughts; maybe it's about becoming a little less willing to believe every thought our brain gives us 🫶🧡

What if your next thought isn't something you have to believe, but something you can simply notice?

Rachael Turner
Psychotherapist and EMDR Practitioner
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14/08/2026

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13/08/2026

This occurred to me today, whilst watching the new Moana movie with my girls, and it’s troubling me somehow. I’ll share -

We still have goddess and god - yet manageress and actress have largely disappeared in favour of manager and actor.

We celebrate the girl boss, but seem less comfortable with businesswoman. We still say ladies and gentlemen, while increasingly searching for completely gender-neutral language.

We have mother and father - words that carry enormous emotional weight, while somehow becoming increasingly cautious about what it means to be feminine or masculine.

We have princess, which can be an insult, and queen, which is usually a compliment. Make that one make sense?!

And once upon a time we had authoress, poetess, sculptress and all sorts of other feminine versions of words. We moved away from them because women didn't need a separate, lesser-sounding version of a profession.

And I agree with that.

But I also wonder whether we've sometimes thrown the baby out with the bathwater.

Because goddess, princess, lioness, tigress, empress, enchantress… there's something rather lovely about words that celebrate femininity.

I'm certainly not suggesting women should have different, lesser titles. And I'm not suggesting masculinity and femininity should dictate who we are or what we're allowed to become.

I'm just wondering whether equality really has to mean sameness?

Can we believe women are every bit as capable, intelligent and powerful as men, and still enjoy the fact that we're women?

Perhaps we can have equality without erasing difference.

I for one, as a woman, love having a very feminine ‘ess’ on the end of a word that differentiates me from my male counterpart.

Just a thought 🫶🧡

12/08/2026

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11/08/2026

Thomas Edison famously said - “I have not failed; I have found 10,000 ways that don’t work” regarding the light bulb 💡

Keep going ✌️🧡

08/08/2026

🌸 Saturday Thoughts from the Therapy Room 🛠️ 🌸

This is my living room right now.

Not exactly Instagram-ready… 😂

There’s dust, mess, noise, things everywhere — and there’s still a lot to do.

But it got me thinking about something I often see in therapy.

Sometimes, before things can get better, they have to look a little worse.

When you're renovating a room, you can't just paint over everything and hope for the best. Sometimes you have to strip things back, make a mess and deal with what's underneath before you can start putting things back together.

Therapy can be a bit like that.

We can spend years keeping the difficult things covered up, working around them and trying to make everything look okay from the outside.

And then we decide it's time to take a closer look.

That process isn't always comfortable.

It can feel messy.
It can feel disruptive.
And sometimes you might even wonder why you started.

But messy doesn't mean you're going backwards.

Sometimes the mess is simply evidence that something is being changed.

And just like a renovation, you don't necessarily need to rebuild everything.

Sometimes you just need to repair what's been damaged, strengthen the foundations and make a little more room for the person you're becoming.

The middle of the process rarely looks as good as the finished result.

But that doesn't mean the work isn't working 🫶🧡

Rachael Turner
Psychotherapist & EMDR Practitioner 🌸

Address

Thornton Cleveleys
Thornton-Cleveleys
FY53

Website

http://www.rachaelturnertherapy.com/

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