Highly Sensitive People (HSP)
You’ve been told you’re “too sensitive” for as long as you can remember
You’re the one who feels everything:
You cry easily from joy as well as sadness.
You process events deeply which leads to overanalyzing.
Bright lights, noise, and crowds can be overstimulating.
You’ve always sensed subtleties in your environment, like the proverbial Princess and the Pea.
You read the room and inbetween the lines with unnerving accuracy.
You feel existentially curious and wonder about the meaning of life often.
Small talk and superficial connections make you feel bored, lonely and different.
As a child you were called an “old soul” as if your spirit arrived here already weathered and knowing.
You became the emotional anchor of your family before you ever understood the weight of that role.
Even now, you’re the default counselor, the intuitive one, the friend everyone calls because you can hold complexity.
You sense energies — whether you call it intuition, empathy or psychic sensitivity.
Chaos disturbs your whole system. Your spirit is gentle, perceptive, porous.
You can thrive as a sensitive being
If you resonated with the challenges I have described, here’s the silver lining: You’re not “too sensitive.” You’re a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) — a trait carried by 20% of the population. This genetic variation evolved to help you be more responsive to your environment. There are many qualities you are gifted with, including heightened intuition, empathy, creativity, and a deeper capacity for joy.
Chances are you’ve felt a strong connection to animals, music and nature. You are imaginative, perceptive, and deeply moved by beauty. People appreciate how thoughtful and caring you are, and you are known for picking up on subtleties. This is because your nervous system processes stimuli more deeply.
It is natural to experience overwhelm when your high sensitivity is flooded by modern day society. Therapy can help you identify environmental and relationship factors that are overstimulating. It is possible to protect your body & soul while honing your sensitivities, so you can wield your finest magic in this lifetime.
“If you feel like an old soul but also young at heart… you might be highly sensitive.” ~April Snow
Codependency Patterns in Relationships
You’re under the illusion that you’re “too sensitive,” so you gaslight yourself before anyone else gets the chance. You override your intuition to preserve relationships that aren’t in your best interest.
You’ve everyone’s therapist. People seek out your empathy but have trouble reciprocating, so you discount your own feelings. You end up holding space for everyone else but feel unseen.
You override your physical limits. You say yes when your body is needing rest. When you finally leave early or cancel, a part of you feels like Debbie Downer, even though you are navigating chronic illness.
You anxiously anticipate others’ needs. You read the room before tuning into yourself. You end up pleasing and accommodating others to avoid their disappointment.
You give until depletion. Your compassionate nature bleeds into self-sacrificing. When the overwhelm hits, you retreat into isolation.
You absorb emotional residue. Other people’s anxiety, anger, or sadness ends up living in your body. Your system feels worn out after socializing, and toxic relationships have made you physically ill.
You feel responsible for everyone’s happiness. Choosing yourself feels like betraying others. You were taught in your family system that boundaries are selfish. Yet you’re desperate to stop living according to other people’s demands.
You have forgotten your magic and it’s time to break the spell.
IFS Therapy helps you to remember your powers through accessing your inner resources - creativity, confidence, courage, compassion, calm & clarity - so you have the resilience to show up as a sensitive soul in your relationships.
Reasons witches fly to see me….
Codependency
If you absorb other people’s emotions, you can learn to set boundaries to manage your space, time and energy. You can feel connected and compassionate without taking responsibility for others’ feelings. You can develop a connection to your intuition to assess your needs in relationships. We address codependent patterns such as self-sacrificing, people pleasing, and underlying feelings of guilt and fear, that create emotional enmeshment.
Spiritual Connection
Therapy can help you connect to a higher power of your own understanding. We address barriers such as spiritual bypassing and toxic positivity. IFS therapy helps you to access an embodied, grounded spirituality. You will learn how to discern the difference between the voice of fear and intuition. We can deepen your spiritual connection through astrology and reiki.
Anxiety
If your mind races and you breathe fast and shallow, you might be dealing with anxiety. You will learn grounding techniques like mindfulness, breathing and guided visualization to calm your body and mind. Anxiety is driven by scared inner child parts that need soothing or inner critic parts that are trying to help you succeed. Through directing compassion and curiosity to these parts, your anxious thoughts can transform from monsters into allies.
Creative Blocks
You can heal perfectionism blocking your inner talents. We can incorporate singing and songwriting to help you find your voice. Roleplay can aid you in self-expression and insight. You are welcome to bring in any creative modality that excites you. Your full, vibrant self is safe here to be silly, to learn, to play. There are no mistakes.