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A Calm, Compassionate Space with Tracie Turner

Parts-informed counsellor, educator and BACP-registered practitioner supporting adults in Rochester, Kent and online.

Tracie brings together professional training and a deeply relational way of working. Her approach is calm, compassionate and grounded in the belief that people are not broken — they are often carrying adaptations that once helped them survive.

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Tracie Turner, integrative counsellor at Hope Wellbeing Counselling

Hello

I'm Tracie

Thank you for taking the time to be here — I look forward to getting to know you.

I know that reaching out for counselling can feel daunting. You may not know exactly what to say, or whether what you're carrying is "enough" to ask for help. My role is to meet you with warmth, steadiness and curiosity, so we can begin exactly where you are.

If you are here, you may be looking for someone who can truly understand what you are going through — not just professionally, but humanly. Someone who can sit with you in your experience without judgement, and help you begin to make sense of what feels overwhelming, confusing or painful.

01 My Story

My Journey

My journey into counselling began long before my formal training, shaped by my own lived experience of emotional challenges, learning differences, and early environments that did not always feel safe. I am neurodivergent myself, including ADHD and dyslexia, and this shapes how I understand difference, struggle and resilience.

That understanding, alongside my professional training, is what led me toward this work — and continues to shape the therapist I am today.

02 In My Own Words

How I Work

You deserve to be heard.

We often hear the saying "we're all in the same boat", yet I believe that although we may find ourselves in the same storm, our boats can be very different. Some are strong vessels, some are small, and some may even be shipwrecked. Wherever you find yourself in the storm of life, I can offer a compassionate and safe space, an empathic ear, and the skill to help you weather it.

Rarely do we allow ourselves time to focus on ourselves, so difficult emotions build until they spill into other areas of our lives. All emotions deserve to be heard — and so do you. When we accept ourselves, even the parts we're less proud of, we become able to make our own choices and steer our vessel away from the jagged rocks.

I take my place alongside you on that journey — helping you find strength in the resources you already have, so that when you no longer need my support, you feel capable of weathering other storms.

03 Beyond the Training

Lived Experience as Strength

Like many people, I learned early patterns of survival — working hard to fit in, meet expectations, and find a sense of worth through achievement and care for others. Over time, I came to understand how easily these adaptations can turn into burnout, self-criticism and disconnection from ourselves.

Therapy became a turning point for me. Through my own therapeutic journey, I learned the power of self-awareness, choice and self-compassion — and this became a core part of how I now work with others. I sometimes describe myself as a "wounded healer", though I hold that lightly: I don't sit above the work I do with you, I bring both professional training and lived understanding to it.

I believe people are not "bad" or broken. Our responses to difficult environments or relationships often develop to help us survive them, and my role is to help you understand those responses with compassion rather than criticism.

My work is strongly shaped by parts work, Internal Family Systems-informed therapy and Voice Dialogue. I am interested in the ways people adapt in order to feel safe, loved or accepted — and how therapy can help them reconnect with parts of themselves that may have been silenced, pushed away or left unheard.

04 My Therapeutic Approach

Ways I Work

Tracie works integratively, drawing on different therapeutic approaches depending on what feels most helpful. At the heart of her work is an understanding that we are not made up of one single, simple self. We all have parts of us that protect, adapt, hide, speak loudly, stay quiet, carry pain, or long to be heard.

Parts Work, IFS-Informed Therapy & Voice Dialogue

Parts work can help you understand the different parts of yourself that may have developed to protect you, help you belong, keep you safe, or carry feelings that once felt too much. Through IFS-informed work and Voice Dialogue, we can gently listen to these parts with curiosity rather than judgement, helping you reconnect with more of who you are.

Person-Centred Therapy

Creating a warm, non-judgemental relationship where you feel heard, respected and understood. This gives space for your own wisdom, pace and choices to emerge.

Gestalt Therapy

Bringing awareness to what is happening in the present moment — in your thoughts, feelings, body and relationships — so unfinished experiences or hidden parts of yourself can begin to be understood.

CBT, Woven in Where Useful

CBT can offer practical tools for noticing patterns in thoughts, feelings and behaviour. Tracie may draw on CBT where it supports the wider therapeutic work, rather than using it as a one-size-fits-all approach.

Integrative Practice

Other approaches — including Transactional Analysis, Mindfulness and Walk and Talk Therapy — may be woven in where helpful, always shaped around you rather than forcing you into a model.

05 Credentials

Training, Qualifications & Experience

Professional Standards

Professional Membership

Tracie is a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), working within recognised professional standards and ethical practice.

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06 My Grounding Beliefs

What I Believe

We are all good enough.

This is my core belief. It's society, trauma and the business of survival that changes how we see ourselves — not who we truly are underneath.

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Change begins with compassion.

If we fight to be something we're not, we miss the support we actually need. Kindness toward ourselves — not criticism — is what makes real change possible.

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Real listening can be transformative.

Real listening means holding someone with empathy so they can be heard — by you, and by themselves. It's one of the most potent forces for change I know.

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Life is a process.

We are never in one fixed state. We hold both inner turmoil and inner peace at once, and life is often about noticing which one we're sitting in.

You are not what happened to you.

When we hold onto something too big to process, it can start to feel like our "normal." Naming that is often the first step toward finding freedom from it.

07 Inclusivity

A Space That Welcomes You

This is a warm, inclusive space where you are welcomed as you are. Tracie’s practice is affirming of difference, respectful of identity, and supportive of people with a wide range of experiences and needs.