Lorna Parker
Works with
- All ages
- All gender expression
Specialties
- Complex trauma
- Clinical mood and personality disorders
- Social exclusion
- Familial networks and breakdown
- Experience of abuse
- Grief
- Neurodivergence and developmental disorders
- LGBTQIA+
About Lorna
With an educational background in psychology and specialist training in psychotherapeutic approaches to art therapy, Lorna’s therapeutic style focusses on helping people to explore emotions, experiences, identity, expression and social connectivity through visual arts in relation to relevant psychological frameworks.
Person centred practice is an important part of Lorna’s therapeutic work, embracing the flexibility of art making to meet different needs. For example, as a way to externalise the mental experience and explore this in a safe, contained, trauma informed space or in a less directive sense to explore self soothing, creative play and reflection.
Prior to training in art therapy, Lorna has vast work experience in community based charity social support work. Specialising in women’s and children’s services, providing one to one support to adults and teenagers around multiple complex needs such as experience of exploitation, sexual abuse, domestic violence, addiction, complex trauma, incarceration and homelessness. This inspired her to pursue art therapy and her current practice in safely exploring difficult experiences in depth from a psychotherapeutic angle of self realisation, processing trauma and encouraging wellbeing.
In terms of art therapy practice, during training, Lorna specialised to work with children and young people, however through these prior experiences, is confident meeting people from all walks of life with empathy and understanding.
Qualifications
- BSc. (With honours) Psychology, Durham University
- MA. Art Psychotherapy Practice, Sheffield Hallam University
Accredited professional member of ANZACATA
Testimonials
I first came across arts therapy though an arduous process of elimination. It felt like I’d tried everything and nothing was really helping. I was looking for therapy to address the physical and emotional pain I felt without disempowering or traumatizing me further. Arts therapy has been life changing I have been able to focus on understanding and processing big what seemed like absolutely terrifying emotions until I met Nyrelle.
– Georgia
Testimonials
I chose Nyrelle as my supervisor as I was starting my private practice and she has been such a huge support and influence in my development of a successful practice. Nyrelle was warm and supportive as well as practical and direct and is able to both hold space not only for personal and client issues that arise, but can also offer practical strategies and solutions based on a wealth of knowledge and experience that has helped grow my skills, knowledge, understanding and confidence as an arts therapist.
– Rachel Taplin, Sensorium Art therapy
Testimonials
I first came across art therapy as a therapeutic intervention to address my NDIS goals that centred around past trauma, increasing my ability to live independently and to improve my overall mental, emotional and physical health. Art therapy has helped me work towards these goals in far too many ways to list and has improved my mental health and life beyond all my initial expectations. Life is now good and change has occurred in so many unexpected ways and areas of my life that a multitude of different therapies over many decades was unable to achieve. As a therapist, I have found Nyrelle to have a gentle and caring approach and has worked collaboratively with me as a client in both a respectful and nonjudgmental manner. She has made the task of self-discovery and recovery fun utilising art as a way to work through many emotionally challenging past situations and events. I would highly recommend art therapy as a way of dealing with past trauma, emotional and mental health issues and in particular Wyndham art therapies for their excellent and professional services.
Testimonials
You have been a foundational person in my development and growth as a human. Without any doubt, meeting you was a turning point in my life. I think it is fair to say that my relationship with you and everything you have given me are, and will continue to be, a cornerstone in my life. If we took away that (cornerstone)… I don’t know what would have happened, it’s unfathomable to me. It’s like it crumbles to nothingness, to nothing visible. Whatever I’m doing, in any given moment, a part of it will be because of the role that you played in my life. What you have done for me is hard to formulate into a concept and into words. All I know is that it’s immeasurable to me and I don’t think it can be understood by anyone who has not had a similar experience. In that way, it is hugely underrated and unappreciated. It’s like a secret work that goes on behind the scenes. Nobody really knows what impact you’ve had on the world by seeing me and how it will continue to ripple out, or that it even took place. For everything that you have done for me, thank you. That’s all I can really say. No other words amount to anything that could express thankfulness for what I have received.
Testimonials
I chose Nyrelle as my supervisor as I was starting my private practice and she has been such a huge support and influence in my development of a successful practice. Nyrelle both warm and supportive and well and practical and direct and is able to both hold space not only for personal and client issues that arise, but can also offer practical strategies and solutions based on a wealth of knowledge and experience that has helped grow my skills, knowledge, understanding and confidence.
Rachel Taplin, Innersense Art therapy
