Sally Turley
Practical, empathetic therapy for lifes hard moments
About Sally
Sally Turley welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low mood or life changes. She writes simply and directly to help someone decide if therapy might be useful. Her first aim is to make it easier to take that first step towards feeling more able to cope.
Sally creates a calm, non-judgemental space where clients can talk about what is hard. She focuses on building trust and clarity so that practical steps can follow.
Background and approach
Conversations look at thoughts, behaviours and the life story that shapes someones patterns. Her approach draws on person-centred ideas that put the clients experience at the centre of therapy. She also uses cognitive behavioural techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and try out new ways of responding.
Where issues link to deeper life themes, she can work with psychodynamic and Jungian perspectives to bring those patterns into view. Sally has 15 years of professional experience and is a member of the BACP, the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. That background underpins her practice and professional reading, and informs how she plans sessions.
Typical concerns she supports include anxiety, depression, addictions, grief, relationship and intimacy-related issues, parenting stress, ADHD and body image. She also works with people facing career change, compassion fatigue and long-standing patterns such as attachment or codependency. Sessions are conversational and goal-focused.
Sally helps clients identify small, manageable steps and reviews progress as therapy continues.
What Sally works with
How Sally works
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Client-centred therapy puts the persons experience at the heart of each session and involves active listening and reflection to help people find their own solutions. This approach suits those who need a supportive space to sort out feelings and make decisions.Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours. It involves practical exercises and small experiments to reduce anxiety, lift mood and change unhelpful habits, which work well across video or phone sessions.
Sally also draws on psychodynamic and Jungian ideas when deeper life patterns or recurring themes are present. These approaches help make sense of long-running difficulties and can be explored at a steady pace online.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Sally will talk through your goals and try methods that fit your needs and preferences. Together you can adjust the pace and focus as therapy progresses.
Online formats offer flexibility and make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls let you see visual cues and run exercises together. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging suit shorter check-ins, follow-ups or times when writing your thoughts feels easier. Registered or accredited professionals can deliver effective work through these formats while adapting methods to the way you prefer to communicate.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
