Training & Professional Development
My life experience, professional expertise, and academic training inform all the mental health training I provide. I have delivered a variety of training days, workshops, and group supervision sessions across private practice, voluntary organisations, and third-sector settings. I specialise in providing training courses and guidance within the therapeutic, early help, family support, chronic illness, and neurodivergence sectors, and my work is informed by lived experience of neurodivergence, chronic illness, trauma, and LGBTQIA+ identities.
My approach is trauma-informed, inclusive, and practical, blending theory with real-world application. Training sessions are tailored to the needs of participants, ensuring that professionals leave equipped with knowledge, skills, and confidence to support diverse clients effectively, while fostering ethical, inclusive, and reflective practice in their own work. I am passionate about creating learning spaces where participants feel seen, supported, and empowered to enhance their practice and positively impact the communities they serve.
I am a senior Continuous Professional Development associate with Training For Counsellors and an lead facilitator on their Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling plus & both a creator/facilitator, co creator/facilitator for their Trauma-Informed & Neurodivergent awareness in practice CPD events.
As part of my role with TFC, I am currently developing an Advanced Certificate in Therapeutic Trauma Practice, which is due to be launched October 2026. If you would like more details please email me at linsey@training-for-counsellors.co.uk.or to click here to secure your space on the course.
Public Speaking:
I bring both lived experience and professional expertise to public speaking, covering topics such as living with and managing chronic health conditions, neurodivergence, trauma, and LGBTQIA+ identities.
I have shared insights at conferences, podcasts, workshops, and professional forums both in the UK & abroad, creating spaces that foster awareness, understanding, and compassionate dialogue. My approach blends personal perspective with professional knowledge, offering trauma-informed, inclusive, and practical insights that resonate with a wide range of audiences. My approach aims to challenge stigma, promote neurodiversity-affirming and disability-inclusive practices, and highlight the intersections of identity, health, and mental wellbeing. I strive to create talks that are engaging, thought-provoking, and empowering, leaving participants with both knowledge and practical strategies to support clients, colleagues, or communities more effectively.
NeuroQueer Therapy Conference 2027
March 19th 2027, 9am-5pm GMT: Creating space for NeuroQueer conversations in counselling & psychotherapy
Hosted by Online Events, and organised by NeuroQueer practitioners brings together practitioners, educators, researchers and lived-experience voices.
The conference creates space for curiosity, challenge, learning and connection around what it means to think, practise and relate differently within counselling, psychotherapy and the wider mental health landscape.
Through talks, workshops and conversations, we’ll explore the intersections of neurodivergence, queerness, identity, trauma, relationships, embodiment, lived experience and therapeutic practice while making space to question some of the assumptions embedded within traditional models of mental health, health and therapy.
Tickets available via Online Events soon
Call for Proposals: NeuroQueer Therapy Conference 2027
We are inviting expressions of interest to facilitate 50 minute online sessions on the theme of neuroqueer therapy at our upcoming online conference. In keeping with the spirit of neuroqueering, we are open to sessions that focus on a range of topics and formats related to the theme.
This may include (but is not limited to):
- Self Disclosure
- Gender & Sexuality as a ND person
- Queering the spaces
- NeuroQueer assessments
- Intersectionality
- NeuroQueer therapeutic contracting and joint space boundaries
- Dual relationships
- NeuroQueer Utopia
All sessions will be 50 minutes long and presenters will receive a £100 honorarium
The conference is being organised by a small group of neurodivergent and queer therapists (Linsey Bailey-Rowles, Dr Emma Bede, Tristan Brooks, Romy Graichen and Louise Lucas) and is hosted on Onlinevents. You can contact the organising committee with any queries including those related to proposals or technical issues at neuroqueerconf@gmail.com
We are committed to anti-oppressive practice across all intersections and are particularly keen to invite presenters with lived experience of intersecting and minoritised identities, especially members of the Global Majority who are often under-represented in these events.
You can submit your proposals through the online events portal by following the link below, please be aware that you will be required to sign in or create an account to submit: https://app.onlinevents.co.uk/events/oe-20270319/neuroqueering-therapy-conference-2027/submit-proposal
If you would like to get in touch about an upcoming public speaking event or conference you can contact me via email