Lori Parker | Neuro-affirming, intersectional therapy

Therapist Directory Listing Category: Online Therapy

About the Therapist

About the therapist:

Hi, I’m Lori (she/her). I offer heart-centred, intersectional counselling online across the UK and in-person in South Manchester.

My path into counselling was shaped by my own lived experience navigating trauma, identity and belonging as an AuDHD, queer, Black mixed-race woman and mother. I know firsthand how heavy life can be when you are a sensitive soul who feels everything deeply, especially when you are carrying the weight of navigating life across different intersections, struggling with overwhelm and searching for a sense of belonging.

I work with clients who are looking for a safe-enough container where they can go at their own pace and have space for whatever their nervous system needs. In a session with me, you don’t have to have it all figured out. Your feelings get to be felt and seen just as they are, supporting you to feel more understood, grounded and at home within yourself.

Sexual identity:

Lesbian
Other
Queer

Gender identity: I use another term

Gender history: Prefer not to say

Intersex: No

Neurodivergent: No

Personal pronouns: she/her

Qualifications - Links to websites:

Core Qualifications & Registrations

Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling
Certificate in Counselling Skills
NCPS Accredited Registrant Member

Specialist Women's Health & Perinatal Care Training

Red School Menstruality Leadership Programme
3-Step Rewind Practitioner Training
Nurturing Birth Doula Training

Continuing Professional Development

CPD Online Counselling
CPD Working with Dissociative Disorders in Clinical Practice
CPD Working with Shame
CPD Exploring Race & Identity in the Counselling Room
CPD Neurodivergent Life Mapping

Qualifications - Additional:

Award	Awarding body	Year of award

Experience and approach:

As a counsellor, I work in a really relational and collaborative way, using my own lived experience alongside my professional training to create a neuro-affirming, culturally sensitive therapeutic space that I hope feels supportive and understanding.

I’m not the kind of “blank slate” therapist who just nods along from a distance. Our sessions are a real, human-to-human space where we meet as equals.

I deeply trust your own inner wisdom and capacity to heal, and at the same time, I also know that when anxiety and overwhelm are high, it can be hard to tune into what you need in therapy and so a more guided holding can be really beneficial. I don't believe in a one-size-fits-all approach. Instead, I work responsively and realistically. I like to take a creative approach so that your therapy can really be shaped around your actual lived reality and not an unrealistic ideal.

How I can support you

While you are welcome to bring any part of your story into our sessions, we might work particularly well together if you are looking for support with:

Anxiety & overwhelm: Managing chronic worry, sensory overload, nervous system burnout and the exhaustion of trying to survive in a world that doesn’t feel like it was built for you. I hold space where you don’t have to hold it all in because I’m not afraid of your big feelings. We can hold it together.

Identity & belonging: Processing the complexities of navigating life across different intersections, including being queer, Black, mixed-race, and/or neurodivergent. In sessions, we can explore healing from the heavy weight of masking, systemic oppression or just feeling different.

Life Transitions & Rhythms: Navigating the impact of hormonal shifts and cyclical challenges (e.g. PMDD or endometriosis) or the major life transitions of pregnancy, birth, baby loss, and postpartum. As a cycle coach and former doula, I bring this knowledge and awareness into my counselling practice.

Approaches: