Edited by Dr Trish Turner
Introduction
By Dr Trish Turner
‘Therapist to Coach’ supports qualified therapists in making the thoughtful transition into professional coaching. It explores how therapeutic insight, relational depth, and reflective practice can enrich coaching without crossing into therapy, offering a rigorous and ethical framework for dual-qualified practitioners. Drawing on over a decade of training experience, it addresses the identity shifts, boundary considerations, and professional dilemmas that accompany this move. Through theory, practice, and case vignettes, the book provides guidance on competences, ethics, supervision, and positioning, alongside reflections on trauma, culture, and impact. More than a manual, it serves as an invitation to engage critically and creatively with coaching as a distinct professional identity that expands therapeutic expertise while honouring integrity and depth.
Biography
Dr Trish Turner is a qualified and accredited EMCC Global Master Coach, coach supervisor and coach trainer, with over two decades of coaching experience and 15 years in psychotherapeutic counselling. She holds a PhD in health policy research, a BA (Hons) in Management and Leadership, and a BSc (Hons) in Integrative Psychotherapeutic Counselling (UKCP). She is BACP registered.
Trish brings a distinctive combination of academic rigour, coaching expertise, clinical insight and senior leadership. Her career spans journalism, NHS board-level communications, and over 25 years as a senior leader across sectors. She is a highly experienced supervisor of both coaches and therapists, working with individuals and groups.
As founder and Managing Director of Therapist to Coach Ltd, Trish has led the pioneering Therapist to Coach Senior Practitioner in Coaching programme for over a decade. This bespoke accredited training, designed specifically for qualified counsellors, psychotherapists and psychologists moving into professional coaching, has been consistently fully subscribed and remains unique in its field.
Trish is deeply committed to raising professional coaching standards. She served for six years as an EMCC Global Accreditation Assessor, assessing coaches, supervisors and training providers internationally. She also contributed to the BACP Coaching Executive, founded the UKCP therapy network in Norfolk, and established the EMCC UK regional coaching network.