Ms Ailsa Parsons
School of Health & Society
Current positions
Lecturer
Biography
Ailsa Parsons (University of Salford) is a Chartered Psychologist, and creative Psychotherapeutic Counsellor (core accreditation - Dance Movement Psychotherapy). Ailsa teaches in counselling and psychotherapy, therapy ethics and human rights, Dance Movement Psychotherapy and music psychology. Her research interweaves pluralistic and creative therapy innovations, including Arts for the Blues, a multimodal and creative psychological therapy for depression. Her PhD research explores psychological flow and advances the novel concept of Creative Therapeutic Flow.
Clinically, Ailsa works therapeutically with individuals in private practice as well as with organisations, with a special focus on creative industries. A humanistic and pluralistic orientation enables her practice to be individually tailored, integrating verbal, creative and embodied ways of working. In the wider community, Ailsa strives to promote inclusion and social cohesion via music, dance and the arts, founding a multi-genre music collective in the High Peak as well as organising and performing at events locally and nationally.