Lori Parker

Overwhelmed and tired of trying to hold it all in? I’m Lori, a compassionate, person-centered counsellor in South Manchester. My counselling path was shaped by my own lived experiences navigating trauma, identity, and belonging as an AuDHD, queer, Black mixed-race woman and mother. I know firsthand how heavy life feels when you are a sensitive soul carrying the weight of burnout, struggling to find where you fit and feeling disconnected from your true self.

I work in a relational, collaborative way, combining my lived experiences with professional training to create a neuro-affirming, culturally sensitive space. If you need a safe-enough container to go at your own pace and give your nervous system what it needs, you are welcome here. You don’t have to have it all figured out. Your feelings get to be seen just as they are, supporting you to feel understood, grounded and at home within yourself.

How I can support you
While any part of your story is welcome, 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 surviving in a world not built for you. I hold space where you don’t have to hold it in. I am not afraid of your big feelings. We can hold them together.
• Identity: Processing the complexities of life across intersections, including being queer, Black, mixed-race, and/or neurodivergent. Together, we explore healing from the heavy weight of masking, systemic oppression, or just feeling different.
• Life Transitions: Navigating the impact of hormonal shifts and cyclical challenges (e.g. PMDD or endometriosis) or the major transitions of pregnancy, birth, baby loss, and postpartum. As a cycle coach and former doula, I bring this deep awareness directly into my practice.

Ways to work with me
I offer online therapy from the comfort of your home and outdoor walk-and-talk sessions in South Manchester.

I also offer dedicated spaces for processing perinatal experiences, including individual birth reflection sessions and the 3-Step Rewind process. These are designed to help you make sense of your path to parenthood, particularly if you are navigating the emotional aftermath of abortion, baby loss of any kind, or a traumatic pregnancy, birth, or postpartum experience.

If you are tired of just surviving the constant ups and downs, please get in touch exactly as you are—even if everything feels messy right now. Send me an email to book an initial chat. I would love to support you as you find your way back home to yourself.