Linsey - Psychotherapy, EMDR & Supervision
Hi, I’m Linsey
I’m an accredited psychotherapist and EMDR practitioner, specialising in:
Autistic and ADHD adults, including late-diagnosed and self-identified
Trauma, including complex early relationships such as with parents or primary caregivers
Chronic illness, fatigue, and disability
Perimenopause and identity exploration
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
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.
Therapeutic Coaching – Parents of Neurodivergent Children
Parenting a neurodivergent child can be deeply meaningful and profoundly demanding. Therapeutic coaching sessions differ from psychotherapy as they 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, either weekly or fortnightly.