Linsey Bailey-Rowles
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About me
Hi, I’m Linsey
I’m an accredited psychotherapist and EMDR practitioner, specialising in:
- Autistic and ADHD adults, including late-diagnosed and self-identified individuals navigating masking, burnout, rejection sensitivity, high self-criticism, anxiety and systemic barriers to support.
- Trauma, including complex early relationships such as with parents or primary caregivers
- The emotional, relational and practical impacts of chronic illness, fatigue, and disability.
- Perimenopause impact on wellbeing, anxiety, low mood and anger
- Identity exploration including the relationship with self & others
- Therapeutic coaching for parents of neurodivergent children
I bring lived experience alongside clinical expertise and specialist training into my approach. As a late-diagnosed autistic and ADHD disabled person living with chronic illnesses, a parent to neurodivergent children, a survivor of complex and relational trauma, and a member of the LGBTQIA+ community, these experiences inform a deep understanding of how mind, body, and environment are interconnected. I understand how distress often arises from systems that are not designed to be neurodivergent, trauma, or disability affirming or responsive.
My approach is neuro-affirming and trauma-informed, supporting the full complexity of your lived experience. Together, we’ll create a space where your whole self, including sensory differences, energy fluctuations, and alternative ways of communicating is understood and supported.
How I Work
Therapy with me begins where your system already is, supporting the whole person: body, mind, and environment. I use a biopsychosocial, trauma-informed approach to explore subconscious patterns, early relational experiences, and nervous system regulation, including complex relationships. Together, we use sensory profiling to notice what overwhelms, comforts, or grounds you, helping you understand how sensory experiences, trauma (both complex & relational), and long-term stress shape your emotions, bodily responses, and relational patterns. Sessions are paced to your capacity, allowing insight to emerge alongside felt experience, and supporting self-awareness, self-compassion, nervous system regulation, and resilience while honouring neurodivergent and individual differences.
What is Biopsychosocial Integration as an approach?
Biopsychosocial integration is a way of understanding and supporting the whole person, not just their mind or body, but how these interact with relationships and daily life. It recognises that physical health, mental and emotional patterns, social connections, and life context are all deeply interconnected. In practice, this means supporting your body through nervous system regulation and managing chronic health conditions, exploring your mind through trauma processing, identity work, and emotional patterns, navigating relationships and environmental stressors, and integrating all of this into your daily living by building self-awareness, confidence, and a sense of self-worth that honours your full experience.
This approach may resonate if you’re experiencing exhaustion, chronic fatigue, or pain, often alongside hypervigilance, shutdown, dissociation, or sensory overwhelm. It can also support those who are questioning neurodivergence, identity, or navigating complex trauma, and who have a desire to understand themselves rather than just cope. Many people come to this approach out of curiosity about how masking, long-term stress, or past experiences shape their emotional responses and relational patterns, seeking clarity, self-compassion, and practical strategies for living more sustainably.
By exploring these interconnections of impact of body, mind, and environment, we are nurturing nervous system regulation, self-compassion, and strategies that honour your lived experience. The goal is not to “fix” you, but to create safety, understanding, and sustainable ways of living that respect both your energy and your neurodivergent and trauma-informed needs.
Integration of EMDR
In my approach, I also offer sessions that integrate EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing). While psychotherapy provides a space to explore identity, relationships, trauma, and emotional patterns, EMDR offers a structured, evidence-based method to process distressing memories and experiences stored in the nervous system.
By combining EMDR with psychotherapy, we can:
- Address both the emotional and bodily impact of trauma
- Work with subconscious patterns while supporting conscious understanding
- Support nervous system regulation alongside reflection and meaning-making
- Pace sessions according to your energy, capacity, and sensory needs
This integration allows therapy to be both deeply reflective and actively healing, helping insights emerge alongside tangible nervous system regulation, so your past experiences can be processed in a way that supports lasting emotional and relational change.
Below are some of the experiences that may resonate and are you bringing you to therapy:
Living with combined Chronic Illness, Neurodivergence, & Complex Trauma
Living with chronic illness while also being neurodivergent and / or carrying the effects of complex trauma can create unique and often invisible challenges. Physical fatigue, pain, and fluctuating energy can interact with sensory sensitivities, heightened nervous system responses, and emotional triggers from past trauma.
This combination can lead to:
- Increased nervous system overwhelm, hypervigilance, or shutdowns
- Difficulty with daily routines, work, or relationships due to fluctuating energy and sensory needs
- Heightened emotional reactivity or anxiety linked to past relational or traumatic experiences
- Challenges in navigating systems (healthcare, education, social) that are not designed to accommodate neurodivergence or chronic health conditions
- Feelings of isolation, guilt, or self-doubt when coping strategies that worked in the past no longer suffice
Exploring Possible Neurodivergence
You may have been wondering if you may be autistic, ADHD, or otherwise neurodivergent, including late-diagnosed, self-identifying, or unsure about formal assessment and looking to explore:
- Making sense of burnout, shutdown, or overwhelm
- Unlearning shame and internalised stigma
- Re-evaluating your identity, relationships, by working through a neurodivergent lens
Support Following an Autism or ADHD Diagnosis
Receiving a diagnosis in adulthood can bring relief, grief, confusion, and overwhelm. You may want to explore what diagnosis means to you, using a neuro-affirming, trauma-informed, biopsychosocial approach to support with:
- Understanding your history through a neurodivergent lens
- Developing self-compassion for burnout, exhaustion, or relational difficulties
- Exploring identity, needs, boundaries, and communication authentically
- Finding ways of living that honour sensory, energy, and relational needs
- Processing complex relational patterns, including early parent relationships, and how these have shaped coping strategies
Living with a Dynamic Disability &/or Invisible / Chronic Illness
Living with an invisible / chronic illness, disability, or fluctuating health conditions can be challenging, affecting not only your body but also your emotions, relationships, and daily life. Energy levels, physical capacity, and sensory sensitivities may fluctuate, making everyday routines, work, and social connections unpredictable and sometimes overwhelming. You may be looking for a space to process grief or frustration, and develop strategies for self-compassion, emotional regulation, and practical coping. For those in relationships, you may be looking for support as a partner, helping you to navigate the impact of chronic illness and disability on shared life, communication, and intimacy.
Supporting Relational and Complex Trauma
Relational and complex trauma often arise from repeated or prolonged experiences of harm, neglect, or challenging relationships, especially in early life or with caregivers. These experiences can affect your nervous system, emotional regulation, self-worth, and the way you relate to others, sometimes creating patterns of hypervigilance, shutdown, or chronic anxiety.
You may want space to explore patterns, process distressing experiences, and support nervous system regulation, self-compassion, and resilience. Understand how past relational trauma shapes your present, develop healthier ways of relating, and cultivate a stronger, more integrated sense of self. This may include setting and maintaining boundaries, navigating ongoing relationships with family members in ways that feel safe and sustainable, or exploring the grief and complexity of estranged or challenging relationships.
Supporting Neurodivergent People Through Perimenopause and Chronic Health Challenges
Perimenopause can bring a wide range of physical, emotional, and cognitive changes, including shifts in energy, sleep, focus, memory, mood, and stress tolerance. For neurodivergent people, these changes can interact with sensory sensitivities, executive functioning, and emotional regulation, creating unique challenges. When combined with chronic health conditions, such as fatigue, autoimmune conditions, or other long-term illnesses, these shifts can feel even more overwhelming, affecting daily life, work, and relationships.
Space to explore these changes, make sense of your experiences, and develop practical strategies to support your wellbeing is central to your whole self. Understanding how perimenopause impacts energy, cognition, and mood, especially in the context of neurodivergence and chronic health conditions. Explore the management of sensory sensitivities and emotional overwhelm, whilst recognising the impact on relationships and identity due to hormonal and health changes.
Parents of Neurodivergent Children
Parenting a neurodivergent child can be deeply meaningful and profoundly demanding. Therapeutic sessions can offer a focus on practical, present-day strategies to manage challenges, build confidence, and navigate life or parenting with support for your nervous system and emotional wellbeing. They can also provide a space for exploring our own nervous system alongside your child’s and how information on how neurodivergence, trauma, or sensory needs influence parenting styles
All sessions are online & paced collaboratively for sensory, communication, or energy needs.
Training, qualifications & experience
- Advanced Diploma - Clinical supervision - Integrative
- BA Hons - Counselling & Psychotherapy - Integrative
- FDA - Counselling Studies - Integrative
- PGCE - Counselling tutor (FE/HE)
- Certificate in EMDR
- Accredited Membership
- Neurodivergence in Therapeutic spaces
- Neurodivergence & Chronic illness
- Neurodivergence & mental health / wellbeing
- Healing Trauma with Internal Family Systems Therapy
- EMDR & Parts Work for Treating Complex Trauma
- LGBTQIA Support in therapy
- ADHD Clinical Services Provider (ADHD-CCSP) Certification Course: Strength-based Interventions to Thrive with ADHD from Childhood to Adulthood
- Certified Autism Spectrum Disorder Clinical Specialist Intensive Training (ASDCS)
- Internal Family Systems Therapy Master Class
- Working within difference / anti oppressive practice
- Certificate for Systemic Therapy with Individuals
- Certificate Compassionate Focused Therapy
- Clinical Applications of Polyvagal Theory in Trauma Treatment
- Peter Levine's Trauma Master Class in Somatic approaches to Psychotherapy
- Compassionate Inquiry Master Class
- ASSIST
- Working with Suicide & Self Harm
- Relational ethics with suicide
- ACE Awareness
- Bereavement awareness
- Trauma informed therapy
- Mental Health & the body
- Shame work in the therapy room
- Certificate in Creative Therapy
- Parent Infant Mental Health Training
- Certificate in coaching & mentoring
Member organisations
school Registered / Accredited
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The National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society This Not For Profit association of counsellors and psychotherapists aim to support the counselling profession, members and training organisations. In 2013 the NCS register was accredited by the Professional Standards Authority under the Accredited Voluntary Register Scheme. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
BACP is one of the UK’s leading professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy with around 60,000 members. The Association has several different categories of membership, including Student Member, Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP, Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Accred) and Senior Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Snr Acccred). Registered and accredited members are listed on the BACP Register, which shows that they have demonstrated BACP’s recommended standards for training, proficiency and ethical practice. The BACP Register was the first register of psychological therapists to be accredited by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA). Accredited and senior accredited membership are voluntary categories for members who choose to undertake a rigorous application and assessment process to demonstrate additional standards around practice, training and supervision. Individual members will have completed an appropriate counselling or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but they won’t appear on the BACP Register until they've demonstrated that they meet the standards for registration. Student members are still in the process of completing their training. All members are bound by the BACP Ethical Framework and a Professional Conduct Procedure.
Accredited register membership
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This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
The Accredited Register Scheme was set up in 2013 by the Department of Health (DoH) as a way to recognise organisations that hold voluntary registers which meet certain standards. These standards are set by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
Post and late diagnosis of Autism / ADHD
Therapies offered
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Fees
£140.00 per session
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
Therapeutic Sessions
I provide trauma-skilled, neurodivergent led, queer and disability-affirmed therapy, integrating psychotherapy, EMDR, parts work, sensory profiling, and somatic approaches.
Sessions are tailored to your needs and paced to your nervous system, providing a space for deep exploration and self-understanding.
Sessions are set at 75 minutes at a cost of £140 per session, this includes an initial 30 minute consultation session prior to beginning therapy.
Session rate reflects the specialised, integrative support you receive, combining psychological, emotional, sensory, and nervous-system-informed approaches.
Supervision Sessions
I provide reflective and clinical supervision that is trauma-skilled, neurodivergence-led, queer and disability-affirmed, and grounded in biopsychosocial and relational approaches.
Supervision sessions are tailored to your professional needs and provide a space to explore clinical challenges, relational dynamics, nervous system responses, and reflective practice.
£100 per hour (60 & 90 minute supervisions available)
Session rate reflects the specialised, integrative support you receive, combining clinical expertise, lived experience, and reflective guidance.
Consultation Sessions
I offer specialist professional consultations for clinicians and therapists seeking guidance in trauma-informed, trauma-skilled, neurodivergence-aware, neurodivergent led, queer and disability-affirmed practice.
I support integrating EMDR, CPTSD, parts, somatic, and sensory approaches.
Sessions are designed to provide a reflective space for discussing cases, exploring clinical challenges, and enhancing professional practice.
£120 per hour (all consultation sessions must be paid for at time of booking)
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Further information
EMDR:
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) helps process trauma and distressing memories, reducing their emotional impact and supporting healing. My approach with EMDR is delivered in a compassionate, inclusive, neuro-affirming, and trauma-informed way, tailored to your unique identity and needs. My approach prioritises kindness, empowerment, and justice, helping you build resilience, self-worth, and wellbeing.
Professional Consultation:
I offer professional consultation for therapists & supervisors supporting clients & supervisees who are neurodivergent, living with chronic illness, experiencing trauma, or identifying as LGBTQIA+. This consultation provides guidance, reflection, and strategies to enhance therapeutic practice and client wellbeing.
Training:
Life experience, professional expertise and academic training & knowledge inform the provision of the mental health training I provide. I have delivered varying training days / courses and group supervision sessions both within the private, voluntary and 3rd sector communities. Providing expertise within the therapeutic, early help, family support, chronic illness, and neurodivergence sectors.
Public Speaking:
I bring both lived experience and professional expertise to public speaking, presenting on topics such as living with and managing chronic health conditions, neurodivergence, and trauma. I have shared insights at conferences, podcasts, and other professional forums, fostering understanding, awareness, and compassionate dialogue
