About
Dr Naomi Murphy is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist with almost 30 years of post-qualification experience of treating trauma and neglect. For 25 years she worked in prisons, secure hospitals and community forensic settings and has an interest in maintaining well-being when living or working in challenging environments. This has led her to explore many neurotechnological innovations alongside therapy such as AI, Safe and Sound Protocol, Heartmath and Bioneurofeedback as well as transpersonal psychology.
For the last 5 years, she has worked exclusively in private practice continuing to treat those with a history of trauma including institutional betrayal and moral injury. She also co-hosts the Locked Up Living podcast which explores how to maintain well-being and resilience in challenging environments.
Sessions
Can AI Help Us Be Better Therapists? A Reflective Close
As artificial intelligence becomes woven into therapeutic practice, it offers more than new tools. It offers a mirror. This session explores how AI systems, precisely because they lack lived experience, embodiment and emotion, can sharpen a therapist's understanding of what it means to be human. Setting algorithmic pattern recognition against the richness of human subjectivity, Naomi argues that AI can illuminate the tacit skills therapists rely on: empathy, attunement, narrative meaning-making and the capacity to hold ambiguity. Drawing on emerging research and case examples, the session frames AI not as a replacement for human connection, but as a catalyst for reflective practice and a partner in rediscovering the essence of therapeutic humanity.
What you'll take away
- Appreciate the challenges AI poses to psychologists and therapists in independent practice
- Identify how AI can inhibit psychological growth
- Understand how a focus on embodied learning can enrich psychological therapy
- Recognise areas for skills development and innovation for psychological therapists
- Identify opportunities for partnership working with AI