Bringing the science of relationships and intimacy to life
Whether you're a clinician looking to deepen your understanding of affective neuroscience, or an organization supporting people navigating intimacy challenges, Lillian Bailey offers talks that are both clinically grounded and genuinely human.
Lillian speaks on a range of topics and can tailor content for clinical or patient/consumer audiences.
Core themes include:
Relationships as Healing
Drawing on the neuroscience emotions and attachment relationships, Lillian explores how our closest relationships are not just emotionally meaningful — they are biologically regulatory. Ideal for clinicians, chronic illness communities, and general wellness audiences.
When the Body Hurts and Intimacy Suffers
A compassionate, evidence-informed look at how chronic pain and illness shape desire, connection, and sexual wellbeing — and what helps. Lillian normalizes the experience while offering real frameworks for partners, patients, and providers.
Sex Therapy Is for Every Therapist
Many clinicians avoid sexual topics – not because they don't care, but because they weren't trained in them and aren't sure where to start. This talk demystifies sex therapy by going back to basics: the underlying mechanisms of therapeutic change that cut across diagnoses and presenting concerns. Attendees leave with a more confident framework for addressing sexual challenges with their existing clients, regardless of specialty.
How Change Actually Happens: A Transtheoretical Approach to Therapeutic Work
For clinicians who want to work more fluidly across modalities, examining what the research tells us about the mechanisms underlying effective therapy – including memory reconsolidation and the therapeutic reconsolidation process – and how understanding these principles can transform clinical confidence and creativity. Applicable across presenting concerns, with particular emphasis on relational and sexual wellbeing.
Custom Topics
Have something specific in mind? Lillian works collaboratively to develop talks tailored to your audience and goals. Get in touch.
Lillian has spoken to clinician associations, continuing education programs, patient advocacy organizations, and wellness-focused groups.
She is equally at home with a room full of therapists as she is with people simply trying to understand their own bodies and relationships better.
Formats include keynotes, workshops, webinars, panel discussions, podcasts/interviews, and continuing education training
Inquire about speaking
Lillian accepts a limited number of speaking engagements each year. To inquire about availability, fees, or to discuss a custom talk for your audience, reach out below.
Lillian Bailey, MS, LMFT, CST is an AASECT-Certified Sex Therapist and couples therapist in Denver, CO with specialized training in Emotionally-Focused Couple Therapy and chronic-pain-informed care.
Lillian thinks of herself as a collector of wisdom – a beachcomber of sorts, combing the shoreline of clinical research, neuroscience, and lived experience for the pieces that matter most. Each talk is a mosaic: carefully assembled connections across the topics she has explored most deeply, shaped to meet the needs of the audience in front of her.
She is known for bringing warmth, humor, and deep clinical expertise to difficult conversations – and for making people feel less alone in the process.