About Rachel
For speaking or teaching inquiries, please contact Rachel Turow via the Teaching section of this site. You can also click to learn more about the books The Self-Talk Workout and Mindfulness Skills for Trauma and PTSD.
Rachel Turow was born in San Francisco, California, and grew up in the Bay Area. After completing a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at the University of Oregon, a clinical internship at the Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Dr. Turow worked as a supervising psychologist and research scientist at Rush University Medical Center.
After a decade of research and clinical practice centered around the question, "What helps people recover from stress and trauma?" Dr. Turow's current work addresses how best to help everyone cultivate strategies to manage stress and build new coping and resilience skills. She has provided workshops, seminars, and conference presentations for diverse audiences that include mental health professionals, cancer researchers, Department of Defense personnel, veterans’ advocates, and mindfulness scholars. She has also trained military medical personnel to manage others’ trauma responses during deployment. Dr. Turow is currently involved in developing programs to enhance coping skills, resilience, and self-compassion among university students.
Dr. Turow’s popular writing on mental health has been featured in publications that include Oprah Daily, Inside Higher Ed, Spirituality & Health, The Greater Good, and Psychology Today.
Dr. Turow has adapted mindfulness-based treatment protocols for patients with posttraumatic stress and depression, and has developed preventive programs to enhance students' resilience and well-being. Dr. Turow has written dozens of scientific articles and book chapters, along with the books The Self-Talk Workout: Six Science-Backed Strategies to Dissolve Self-Criticism and Transform the Voice in Your Head (2022; Shambhala) and Mindfulness Skills for Trauma and PTSD: Practices for Recovery and Resilience (2017; Norton Professional Books). Dr. Turow is a reviewer for several professional journals and serves on the Scientific Advisory Board for the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation.
Dr. Turow is a frequent speaker for local, national, and international audiences on topics related to stress, trauma, mindfulness, resilience, and self-compassion. In addition to her clinical psychology practice in Seattle, Washington, Dr. Turow works as adjunct faculty at Seattle University and at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She also provides continuing education seminars for mental health professionals. She lives in Seattle, Washington, where she enjoys early music, theater, painting, and film festivals.
