Service categories: Counselling and therapies, Schools and education providers, Support groups, social programs and branches

Service URL: https://www.libertycounsellingburnley.com

Secondary URL: https://www.counselling-directory.org.uk/counsellors/linsey-bailey-rowles

Hi, I’m Linsey. I'm an accredited psychotherapist and EMDR practitioner. I specialise in supporting people living with chronic illness, fatigue, or disability, as well as those navigating neurodivergence, trauma, menopause and identity exploration including the unique experience of late and post diagnosis of Autism / ADHD.

As a neurodivergent person living with chronic illness, I understand first-hand how the mind, body, and environment are interconnected, and how experiences can be shaped by systems that are not always inclusive or accessible. I am also a parent to neurodivergent children, and this lived experience informs how I support parents and families navigating neurodivergence, sensory needs, and family dynamics. Together, we’ll create safety, understanding, and space for your full experience, including sensory differences, energy fluctuations, and alternative ways of communicating.

How I Work:

Therapy with me begins where your system already is, supporting the whole person, body, mind, and context through a biopsychosocial, trauma-informed approach. We will explore subconscious patterns, early relational experiences, support and healing of the nervous system, and use sensory profiling to notice what overwhelms, comforts, or grounds you. Sessions are paced to your capacity, using trauma-informed approaches so insight can emerge from felt experience, alongside guided understanding of how your mind, body, and nervous system respond. This integrative approach supports self-awareness, self compassion, nervous system regulation, wellbeing, and honours neurodivergent and individual differences.

What this explores:

Supporting and Healing the Nervous System - Rather than asking your system to “regulate” or cope, therapy is paced to support an overworked nervous system. This includes:

• Slowing the pace to match your capacity
• Noticing early signs of activation or shutdown
• Working within tolerance rather than pushing through
• Using EMDR-informed and somatic approaches when appropriate

The aim is not to force change, but to allow your nervous system to learn that safety is possible. 

Sensory Profiling & Meaning-Making - Many people experience the world primarily through their sensory system. Together, we explore your unique sensory profile, identifying what overwhelms or drains you, what helps you feel settled, and how sensory experiences connect to emotion, memory, and meaning.

We also explore meaning-making through subconscious patterns, early relational experiences, and internal conflicts, paying attention to how these are held and expressed in your nervous system through tension, activation, shutdown, or other bodily responses and how they show up as protective patterns in your relationships.

This process helps you understand how past and current experiences shape not only your thoughts and feelings but also your bodily reactions and relational responses, creating a foundation for self-compassion, bodily awareness, and meaningful change.

How this approach supports the whole-self (Biopsychosocial)

• Biological / Body: Supporting nervous system regulation, sensory processing, and managing the physical effects of chronic health conditions such as Fibromyalgia, ME/CFS, POTS, FND, EDS or hEDS
• Psychological / Mind: Exploring identity, processing trauma, anxiety, and emotional patterns, including understanding the impact of late diagnoses of Autism or ADHD
• Social / Relationships: Navigating relational challenges with partners, family, or children, and considering the impact of social expectations, masking, or environmental stressors on your wellbeing
• Integration: Building self-awareness, confidence, and self-worth beyond productivity or others’ expectations, and creating change that feels realistic, sustainable, and aligned with your full experience

You might resonate with this approach if you notice:

• Exhaustion deeper than stress, chronic fatigue, or pain, alongside nervous system patterns such as hypervigilance, shutdown, dissociation, or sensory overwhelm
• A questioning of yourself about neurodivergence, identity, or complex trauma
• A desire to understand yourself rather than just cope, a wanting to explore why you react or respond in certain relational & familial situations
• A curiosity about how masking, sensory mis-attunement, or long-term stress has shaped the way your system responds in relationships or daily life

Support following an Autism or ADHD Diagnosis

Receiving a diagnosis of Autism or ADHD in adulthood can bring relief, grief, confusion, validation, and overwhelm & more often all at once. Many people find that diagnosis opens up new questions about identity, past experiences, relationships, work, and wellbeing, rather than providing immediate clarity.

In therapy, we create space to gently explore what diagnosis means for you. Using a neuro-affirming, trauma-informed, biopsychosocial approach, we look at how years of masking, sensory misattunement, or unmet needs may have shaped your nervous system, self-beliefs, and patterns of coping. We pay attention not only to thoughts and emotions, but also to bodily responses, sensory sensitivities, fatigue, shutdown, or hypervigilance that can intensify after diagnosis.

This work can support you to:

• Make sense of your history through a neurodivergent lens, without pathologising yourself
• Understand how your nervous system has adapted to survive in environments that weren’t designed for you
• Develop greater self-compassion for burnout, exhaustion, or relational difficulties
• Explore identity, needs, boundaries, and communication in ways that feel authentic and sustainable
• Find ways of living that honour your sensory, energy, and relational needs rather than pushing against them

Rather than focusing on “managing symptoms,” therapy becomes a space for integration, understanding, and reconnection with yourself, guided by your nervous system and lived experience.

Supporting Parents of Neurodivergent Children & Young people

Parenting a neurodivergent child can be deeply meaningful and profoundly demanding especially when systems around you feel under-resourced, pathologising, or overwhelming. Many parents find themselves holding constant vigilance, exhaustion, guilt, or self-doubt, while trying to advocate for their child’s needs within schools, healthcare, and wider society.

Therapy offers a space for you, not just as a parent, but as a nervous system that has been working very hard. Using a biopsychosocial, trauma-informed, and neuro-affirming approach, we explore how parenting a neurodivergent child impacts your body, emotions, relationships, and sense of self. We pay attention to how ongoing advocacy, sensory demands, disrupted rest, or relational stress can lead to burnout, shutdown, or chronic nervous system activation.

This approach can support you to:

• Understand your own nervous system responses alongside your child’s
• Make sense of overwhelm, exhaustion, or emotional reactivity without blame
• Explore how your own neurodivergence, trauma history, or sensory needs may be activated in parenting
• Develop ways of responding that support both your child’s regulation and your own
• Build self-compassion and confidence in your parenting, rather than relying on external expectations or “shoulds”

Rather than focusing on fixing you or your child, therapy becomes a space for understanding, attunement, and sustainability, helping you parent in ways that are kinder to your nervous system and aligned with you, your child's and your family’s needs.

Sessions are available online, weekly or fortnightly, and can be adapted to support your access and pacing needs.

Aimed at: Adult , Adult sibling, Anyone with an Association to Autism, Businesses, Parent or carer of under 18, Parent/carer of a child, Parent/carer of a young person, Parent/carer of an adult, Parents or carers, families, adults, Partner, Professional

Referral Sources: Education, NHS and Private, Private Only, Social Care, Yourself

Specialisms: Autism, Autism and Neurodivergent , Generic