Emma Reed Turrell

Dial Emma

Health EN ↓ 139 episodes

If you’ve ever wished you had a therapist in your back pocket, Dial Emma is here. Each week, I’ll be answering your dilemmas with honesty, empathy, and a few therapeutic truth bombs to help you make sense of life’s stickiest moments. Got a tricky situation, emotional tangle, or just need a fresh perspective? I’d love to hear from you. Please do get in contact via my online webform here: forms.gle/gSE8Pa8HnqU2B2c59For more trusted advice, please do give the show a follow on Instagram @dialemmapodcast(https://www.instagram.com/dialemmapodcast)

Author

Emma Reed Turrell

Category

Health

Podcast website

dial-emma.captivate.fm

Latest episode

Jul 6, 2026

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Episodes

"I want children, but the love of my life doesn't": How do we choose between the life we have and the one we long for? 03.11.2025

Welcome back to Dial Emma! Each week, I'll be answering your dilemmas with honesty, empathy, and a few therapeutic truth bombs to help you make sense of life's stickiest moments. If you've ever wished you had a therapist in your back pocket, Dial Emma is here to help. In this week's episode, I explore the sharp end of love - those crossroads where heart and future pull in opposite directions. Two...

Dr. Fredrick Nyström: Weight management, the obesity paradox and the psychological impact of dieting 27.10.2025

Welcome back to Dial Emma! Each week, I'll be answering your dilemmas with honesty, empathy, and a few therapeutic truth bombs to help you make sense of life's stickiest moments. If you've ever wished you had a therapist in your back pocket, Dial Emma is here to help. Our dilemma this week comes from a listener who is navigating a lifelong struggle with weight and self-acceptance. After years of d...

Kate Moyle: Dating, boundaries and sexual empowerment 20.10.2025

Welcome back to Dial Emma! Each week, I'll be answering your dilemmas with honesty, empathy, and a few therapeutic truth bombs to help you make sense of life's stickiest moments. If you've ever wished you had a therapist in your back pocket, Dial Emma is here to help. This week, we hear from a 31-year-old listener who is struggling to set boundaries around sex and dating. This listener feels fearf...

"I feel like the odd one out in my own family": The family roles we play, and how to rewrite the script 13.10.2025

Welcome back to Dial Emma! Each week, I'll be answering your dilemmas with honesty, empathy, and a few therapeutic truth bombs to help you make sense of life's stickiest moments. If you've ever wished you had a therapist in your back pocket, Dial Emma is here to help. In this week’s episode, I'm exploring the complex family roles that shape who we become, and how hard it can be to step outside the...

"My teenage son is struggling with anxiety": How to navigate mental health challenges in teens 06.10.2025

Welcome back to Dial Emma! Each week, I'll be answering your dilemmas with honesty, empathy, and a few therapeutic truth bombs to help you make sense of life's stickiest moments. If you've ever wished you had a therapist in your back pocket, Dial Emma is here to help. It's World Mental Health Day this Friday 10th October, so I'm delighted to be joined by a special guest who knows the power of mart...

"My childhood bestie didn't invite me to her wedding": Broken promises, drifting apart and the fragile bonds of friendship 29.09.2025

Welcome back to Dial Emma! Each week, I'll be answering your dilemmas with honesty, empathy, and a few therapeutic truth bombs to help you make sense of life's stickiest moments. If you've ever wished you had a therapist in your back pocket, Dial Emma is here to help. What happens when a friendship fades without explanation, or ends in a way that feels like a betrayal? This week, I'm exploring the...

Career Changes: Motherhood, work-life balance and wanting more 22.09.2025

Welcome back to Dial Emma! Each week, I'll be answering your dilemmas with honesty, empathy, and a few therapeutic truth bombs to help you make sense of life's stickiest moments. If you've ever wished you had a therapist in your back pocket, Dial Emma is here to help. This week, I'm tackling two dilemmas around work, identity, and balance. First, we hear from a new mum who wonders if it’s selfish...

Joshua Fletcher: Self-optimisation culture, productivity anxiety and learning to fail better 15.09.2025

Welcome back to Dial Emma! Each week, I'll be answering your dilemmas with honesty, empathy, and a few therapeutic truth bombs to help you make sense of life's stickiest moments. If you've ever wished you had a therapist in your back pocket, Dial Emma is here to help. This week, I'm joined by psychotherapist and author Joshua Fletcher, aka Anxiety Josh , to help a listener who is struggling with a...

Helen Marie: Estranged sisters, family dynamics and self-understanding 08.09.2025

Welcome back to Dial Emma! Each week, I'll be answering your dilemmas with honesty, empathy, and a few therapeutic truth bombs to help you make sense of life's stickiest moments. If you've ever wished you had a therapist in your back pocket, Dial Emma is here to help. This week, I'm joined by trauma and self-work therapist Helen Marie , to unpack a dilemma involving estranged siblings. Together, w...

"We love each other, but our sex life is non-existent": Intimacy, betrayal & secrecy in relationships 01.09.2025

Welcome back to Dial Emma! Each week, I'll be answering your dilemmas with honesty, empathy, and a few therapeutic truth bombs to help you make sense of life's stickiest moments. If you've ever wished you had a therapist in your back pocket, Dial Emma is here to help. This week, I'm answering two dilemmas about intimacy, connection and betrayal. One listener writes about being blindsided after fin...

Relationships in the Grey Zone: Letting go of an ex and facing an unexpected pregnancy 25.08.2025

Welcome back to Dial Emma! Each week, I'll be answering your dilemmas with honesty, empathy, and a few therapeutic truth bombs to help you make sense of life's stickiest moments. If you've ever wished you had a therapist in your back pocket, Dial Emma is here to help. In this week's episode, we hear two dilemmas that sit in the grey zone when it comes to relationships. One listener is torn between...

"My mum doesn't know who I'm marrying": Secrets, families & the parts of ourselves we keep hidden 18.08.2025

Welcome to season two of Dial Emma! Each week, I'll be answering your dilemmas with honesty, empathy, and a few therapeutic truth bombs to help you make sense of life's stickiest moments. If you've ever wished you had a therapist in your back pocket, Dial Emma is here to help. In this first episode of season two, I'm delving into love, secrets, and the emotional weight of family expectations throu...

Heartbreak: how to move on without all the answers 28.07.2025

Welcome back to Dial Emma! Each week, I'll be answering your dilemmas with honesty, empathy, and a few therapeutic truth bombs to help you make sense of life's stickiest moments. If you've ever wished you had a therapist in your back pocket, Dial Emma is here to help. It's the last episode of season one of Dial Emma, but never fear! I'll be back with season two very soon, so if you have a dilemma...

Zoe Blaskey: Motherhood, careers and the conspiracy of 'having it all' 21.07.2025

Welcome back to Dial Emma! Each week, I'll be answering your dilemmas with honesty, empathy, and a few therapeutic truth bombs to help you make sense of life's stickiest moments. If you've ever wished you had a therapist in your back pocket, Dial Emma is here to help. To help me unpack today's dilemma, I'm joined by another special guest: podcaster, author, coach and founder of Motherkind, Zoe Bla...

Friendship & Grief: how do friendship dynamics play out after we experience loss? 14.07.2025

Welcome back to Dial Emma! Each week, I'll be answering your dilemmas with honesty, empathy, and a few therapeutic truth bombs to help you make sense of life's stickiest moments. If you've ever wished you had a therapist in your back pocket, Dial Emma is here to help. This week, we have a dilemma from a listener who shares how it feels to continue in friendships after bereavement. At 53, our liste...

Toxic Complaining: How people-pleasing shows up at work 07.07.2025

Welcome back to Dial Emma! Each week, I'll be answering your dilemmas with honesty, empathy, and a few therapeutic truth bombs to help you make sense of life's stickiest moments. If you've ever wished you had a therapist in your back pocket, Dial Emma is here to help. This week, we explore a dilemma that will feel all too familiar to recovering people-pleasers: What happens when your efforts to su...

Elizabeth Day: Fertility, failure and unexpected grief 30.06.2025

TW: miscarriage, abortion and fertility struggles Welcome back to Dial Emma! Each week, I'll be answering your dilemmas with honesty, empathy, and a few therapeutic truth bombs to help you make sense of life's stickiest moments. If you've ever wished you had a therapist in your back pocket, Dial Emma is here to help. This week's dilemma comes from a listener who is navigating a complex and painful...

Self-Loathing: Feeling like an imposter in your own life 23.06.2025

Welcome back to Dial Emma! Each week, I'll be answering your dilemmas with honesty, empathy, and a few therapeutic truth bombs to help you make sense of life's stickiest moments. If you've ever wished you had a therapist in your back pocket, Dial Emma is here to help. This week, we hear a deeply personal and vulnerable dilemma from a listener who feels like an imposter in her own life. She struggl...

Toxic Parents: Rewriting the Script using the Drama Triangle 16.06.2025

Welcome to the first episode of Dial Emma! Each week, I'll be answering your dilemmas with honesty, empathy, and a few therapeutic truth bombs to help you make sense of life’s stickiest moments. If you've ever wished you had a therapist in your back pocket, Dial Emma is here to help. This week, our listener dilemma involves ageing parents in a toxic marriage, and an only child who often gets stuck...

Dial Emma: Trailer 09.06.2025

If you’ve ever wished you had a therapist in your back pocket, Dial Emma is here. Each week, I'll be answering your dilemmas with honesty, empathy, and a few therapeutic truth bombs to help you make sense of life’s stickiest moments. Got a tricky situation, emotional tangle, or just need a fresh perspective? I’d love to hear from you.  Be sure to follow the podcast so you don't miss the first...

S3, Ep 12 Dial Emma: Insecurity in Relationships - how can I build trust with my partner when our relationship started as an affair? 27.12.2024

Welcome back to the last episode of Dial Emma for this season! You share your dilemma, any dilemma, and Emma shares her reflections as a therapist to give you the tips and tools you need to navigate it. This week, Emma hears from a listener who is navigating feelings of insecurity in her romantic relationship, which started as an affair with her boss and is now a complex dynamic with an ex-partner...

S3, Ep 11 Friendship Therapy: Asking for Help in Friendship - how family dynamics play into our friendships in adulthood 23.12.2024

Welcome to this week's episode of Friendship Therapy, the podcast in which we look at friendships through a therapeutic lens. This week, Emma is joined by Katherine to talk about just how hard it can be sometimes to ask for help in friendships. Emma and Katherine talk about the specifics of how to get help that's actually helpful in the present, as well as Katherine's experience growing up as the...

S3, Ep 10 Dial Emma: Friendship After Loss - the impact of grief on friendship 20.12.2024

TW: loss, suicide Welcome back to this week's episode of Dial Emma. You share your dilemma, any dilemma, and Emma shares her reflections as a therapist to give you the tips and tools you need to navigate it. This week, we hear from a listener who tragically lost her husband when he took his own life, and is now navigating the loss of the friends that they shared in the wake of his death. In this e...

S3, Ep 9 Friendship Therapy: Surface Dwellers and Depth Seekers - exploring emotional depth in male friendships 16.12.2024

Welcome to this week's episode of Friendship Therapy, the podcast in which we look at friendships through a therapeutic lens. This week, Emma is joined by Elliot to talk about what it's like to be an, as he puts it, emotional male within male friendship groups. Elliot shares an experience that many of us might be able to relate to: being unceremoniously exited from a friendship group chat, with no...

S3, Ep 8 Dial Emma: Platonic Crushes - how emotional self-sufficiency supports healthier connections 13.12.2024

Welcome back to this week's episode of Dial Emma! This is where you get to dial Emma, with your dilemma (see what we did there?!) You share your dilemma, any dilemma, and Emma shares her reflections as a therapist to give you the tips and tools you need to navigate it. This week, our Dial Emma voicenote comes from a listener who is navigating the feeling of having a platonic crush, or 'squish', on...

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