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welcome to phoenixology, where you’ll find online therapy that is:
- Deeply Respectful
- Powerfully Transformative
- Evidence-Based
- Gentle and
- Non-Judgemental
“Profoundly healing, thank you for holding such a beautiful space for me”
“Naomi is gentle and empathetic – I would recommend to others and return to her for myself”
Dr Naomi Parsons is a compassionate, affirming and intuitive psychologist providing a safe, warm and nurturing space where all your parts are welcome and you can just be you, with no expectations or judgements.
Dr Naomi Parsons primarily uses Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS). She also incorporates elements of Nervous System Regulation/Poly-Vagal Theory, Solutions Focus Therapy (SF) and Somatic Attunement
Dr Naomi Parsons works with a wide range of needs and is highly skilled at holding space for the many complexities of life. She has particular specialisms in the following areas:
- Anxiety
- Burnout
- Chronic illness/fatigue/invisible disabilities
- Grief and loss
- Helping, healing and caring professions eg psychologists, therapists, counsellors, social workers and those in pastoral support roles
- Late-discovered neurodivergence
- Matrescence (the extraordinary process of becoming a mum)
- Midlife women
- Parenting (including parenting children with additional needs and/or parents who have additional challenges themselves)
- Perfectionism and people-pleasing
- Peri-natal (including infertility, miscarriage, birth trauma, post-natal depression, post-natal anxiety and post-natal psychosis)
- Religious trauma/difficult experiences of faith and religion (especially in a Christian context)
- Teachers, school staff and those who work in education
- Trainee psychologists
- Trauma/Complex PTSD, including dissociation
“Thank you so much, I feel hope now for a better future for me and my family”
“I felt like I was falling – Naomi gave me a parachute”
“Even in my darker moments, Naomi helped me find the light”
“Thank you so much Naomi, this was really excellent.”
“Thank you for bringing joy back to me!”
Dr Naomi Parsons
DEdChPsy, CPsychol, BScHons.
Chartered Member of the British Psychological Society (BPS)
HCPC Registered Practitioner Psychologist since 2012
25+ years supporting people to flourish
I’m a forty-something Mum of 2 young girls and I live in Lancaster in the North West of England.
I qualified as an Educational Psychologist in 2012 but quickly got frustrated about the focus on individual assessments when I naturally gravitated more towards systemic change and therapeutic intervention.
I experienced a significant period of burnout, chronic fatigue, functional neurological disorder and hemiplegic migraines that left me severely debilated; bedbound or housebound and needing carers for the most basic of tasks.
This was an exceptionally hard time in my life; everything I thought I knew about myself, and everything I had based my worth upon, was stripped away. All I was left with was myself, for long hours, days, weeks and years.
It felt like my life was over, and yet, I can now see that this was a gift from my inner champions, who brought me to a stop so I could finally start to hear, to understand and to heal what I didn’t even know was broken.
As I found healing, my greatest priority was to build the family I always dreamed of, and my proudest achievement is my two young girls.
Over time, I started to rebuild my professional identity. Although it looked very different to what I once assumed it would be, it turns out to be the perfect fit for my skills, experience and values.
I had learnt so much about trauma on my own healing journey, and was fascinated by all the recent developments in our understanding of trauma and how we can treat it. The key to my own healing has been IFS, somatic attunement and nervous system regulation, so that is now what I do for others. I know healing is possible because I’ve walked the path myself, and now I’m here to walk the path with you. And I promise you, the view from the top is amazing.
I love sunsets, stargazing, mountains, lakes, rivers, waterfalls, sea waves, crunching through autumn leaves, listening to an eclectic mix of music from the 90s and 00s, immersing myself in live jazz/funk/soul, learning from audiobooks, eating good food, watching TV shows like the Bake Off, Sewing Bee and the Pottery Throwdown and making a mess while doing arts and crafts.
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“Our sessions were very meaningful, thank you.“
“Exquisite”
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