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Highly Sensitive Person Therapy
Learn how to work with your big emotions instead of getting overwhelmed by them.
“Why are you so sensitive?”
“Why do you always overreact?”
You’ve heard it your whole life and wish you had the answer.
Growing up, it felt like your emotions were too much for the people around you.
You felt alone, misunderstood, and punished for feeling as much as you do.
It feels like you cry so easily at things that don’t seem like they should hit you this hard. Anything from a sad commercial, to a hurtful comment, even in reaction to your own thoughts. More than anything, it’s frustrating to not have any control over it.
There’s also this anger, the kind that doesn’t usually come out at others but bubbles up inside. You’ll leave interactions thinking of what you wish you said or how they were wrong, fighting against yourself or other people all in your head. Once it starts, it’s hard to turn it off.
Now, so much of your energy goes to pushing your feelings down or telling yourself to get it together.
By the end of the day, you’re drained in a way that sleep can’t fix.
Maybe you notice:
You stay quiet rather than share your real thoughts because you’re afraid you’ll cry, lose your words, and feel embarrassed
You spend more time on your phone or watching TV than you’d like because distraction feels easier than sitting with the uncomfortable emotions
You feel stuck in loops of criticizing yourself or others and don’t know how to make it stop
You can usually figure things out on your own, but this one’s been harder, which is super frustrating. But you know you can’t live like this forever.
how i can help
Highly sensitive person therapy helps you understand and work with your emotions in a new way - one that doesn’t feel as exhausting.
The goal isn’t to make you feel less emotions.
It’s to help you understand:
There was never anything wrong with you for feeling this much
It’s possible to feel your feelings without getting overwhelmed by them
To help you reach your goals, we’ll be working with your sensitivity rather than against it
Over time, things will start to shift.
You won’t feel as nervous when you feel the tears well or the anger bubble up - because you’ll know how to keep them from overwhelming you.
You’ll feel more confident speaking up for yourself - even when it’s uncomfortable.
Relationships will feel less stressful - you’ll learn how to show up authentically and fully instead of spending so much energy managing how you’re coming across.
You’ll learn how to actually hold space for your emotions - letting them be there instead of pushing them away - without the usual shame or embarrassment that usually follows for having the big feelings.
And importantly, you’ll stop believing you’re too much - because, you aren’t, and never have been.
You don’t want to feel overwhelmed by your emotions all the time - and the good news is, when you’re not doing it alone, it actually gets so much easier.
We’re not following a one-size-fits all plan. I pull from a variety of approaches - like parts work (IFS), somatic therapy, mindfulness, looking at your past to understand your present - but what matters most is figuring out the unique therapy formula that will actually work for you.
We start by getting clear on what’s been the hardest to change, what you want to be different, and why it’s important to you.
I ask questions and take time to really get to know you - what you’ve already tried, what’s helped, and what hasn’t. From there, we experiment with tools and strategies to see what actually works for your nervous system and what doesn’t (deep breathing, visualizing, cozy blankets and sipping hot tea - we’ll try it all).
A lot of our work might look like:
Unpacking deeper beliefs - like where in life did you learn your emotions are “too much”?
Learning how to handle moments when emotions go from 0 to 100
Catching self critical thoughts early before they snowball and take over for hours
Learning to tune into the strength of your intuition and emotions
And this isn’t about making huge, overwhelming changes all at once. It’s about making small, realistic shifts you can actually follow through on and building from there.
Highly sensitive person therapy can help you:
Understand why your emotions feel so intense - and why that’s ok
Build tools to move through emotional moments more quickly, instead of staying stuck in them
Catch self critical or shame based thoughts earlier - before they spiral
Speak up for yourself and your needs even when it’s uncomfortable
Trust your emotions instead of immediately questioning or criticizing yourself
Have more energy in your day to day life instead of using it all to managing your emotions
Let go of the belief that your feelings are “too much” or a burden to others
Feel more confident showing up authentically and emotionally in your relationships
Imagine not needing to be “put together” to feel like you’re enough.
faqs
Commonly Asked Questions about Highly Sensitive Person Therapy
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A highly sensitive person (HSP) is someone who truly processes emotions and experiences on a deeper level than others.
This can look like:
Not just hearing music or seeing paintings surface level, but feeling deeply when an artistic piece touches you
Noticing shifts in emotion in others quickly, sometimes before the other person knows themselves
Having a hard time watching others be in pain emotionally or physically because you feel it yourself
Having good things feel extra good, and bad things feel extra bad
Struggling in areas with lots of people, loud noises, or too many things to pay attention to at once
If any of these resonate with you, you can explore the self-test available through Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) Research. The assessment offers additional insight into this trait and how it may be showing up for you.
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HSP’s sensitivity is not imagined or made up. There is an actual difference in how their nervous system and brain processes experiences and emotions.
With a more sensitive nervous system, the body more quickly responds to either emotions it picks up from someone else or ones that come up in yourself.
Studies using brain scans have found that HSPs show more brain activity around empathy, awareness, and emotional processing. In short, the brain is actually taking in and responding to more information than the average person.
The sensitivity applies to more than just emotions. It can also show up as:
Being overstimulated easily by noise, lights, and crowds
Being prone to overthinking or reflecting on things often and deeply
This is not a disorder, it’s a personality trait that 15-20% of the population has.
The issue was never the sensitivity, but more when there was never an opportunity to get support or tools to understand it or work with it.
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As someone who is highly sensitive myself, I won’t only be operating from a place of theory but from a place of genuine understanding.
I know how confusing and overwhelming it can be to grow up in a world that treats your emotions like they’re “too much,” or something you need to fix. That kind of messaging makes it so hard not to question yourself, put your emotions away in a steel box, or wonder why you can’t just be like “normal” people.
But I’ve also experienced what it looks like on the other side of that.
It’s possible to stop fighting your emotions and start working with them, using them as insight and guidance rather than something you have to manage or hide.
This work is about creating a way of living that actually fits how you’re wired - not trying to change who you are to be like someone else.
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While everyone’s different, most people start to get tools and gain insight within the first few weeks.
This might look like:
Catching a feeling when it’s at a lower volume before it escalates to an overwhelming degree
Having a grounding tool to use when you feel stuck in your head or in an emotion
Starting to understand why you struggle to let yourself sit in your feelings
Longer-term change happens over time as we build more patterns and skills that will actually stick. We’ll be actually rewiring how your brain and nervous system work!
Because of that level of shifting, more lasting change can sometimes take a few months to a year. But this is the good stuff; the change that lets you graduate therapy and feel good that you started this work in the first place.
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Starting therapy can feel like a really big step, especially if you’re used to figuring things out on your own. So truly, big props for even being here!
The first step is to schedule a free, 15 minute, no pressure consultation. We’ll talk through what you’ve been struggling with, how I can support you in reaching your goals, and see if working together feels like a good fit.
If it does, we’ll schedule your first session - usually one or two weeks from then. You’ll get all the forms ahead of time, along with a calendar invite and session link.
All you have to do from there is show up! No preparation needed, no agenda you have to come up with, just hop on and we’ll start working towards your goals.
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