Therapy for Highly Sensitive Adults

Maybe you’ve spent your life trying not to be too much, or too sensitive, around other people.

You feel things deeply, and you notice a lot.

Maybe you’ve heard it in different ways: too emotional, too intense, taking things too personally. Maybe you learned to keep how much you feel to yourself, push through when you were overwhelmed, and keep up with everyone else even when your whole system was asking for a break.

Many highly sensitive people get very good at functioning while overriding themselves. It works for a while. Then it starts to cost more than it gives.

I’m a highly sensitive person, too.

I know what it’s like to need more quiet than the people around you, to think about a hard conversation for days, and to wonder why things that seem easy for others take so much out of you.

I work with highly sensitive adults to help them understand how they’re wired, what they need, and what actually helps them feel steady, so they can live a life that fits them instead of hiding their sensitivity or working around it.

I’ve also completed Dr. Elaine Aron’s course for therapists on psychotherapy with highly sensitive people.

Your sensitivity is information.

When you’ve spent years overriding it, listening can feel unfamiliar at first. In therapy, we'll get curious about what your sensitivity might be telling you: why a packed weekend wipes you out, why one comment stayed with you all week, or why you picked up on something in a relationship before you had words for it.

Over time, that can look like:

Noticing overwhelm earlier, before you’re depleted
Recognizing a boundary before resentment points it out
Making room for the rest, quiet, or time alone that helps you feel well, without needing to justify it
Trusting what you notice, even when someone else sees it differently

We’ll pay attention to pace, too. Deep work doesn’t have to overwhelm you to matter, and we’ll figure out together how much feels like enough.

How I Work

You don’t have to fit a label.

Some people read about highly sensitive people and think, that’s me. For others, it fits partly, or their sensitivity overlaps with neurodivergence, past experiences, or temperament.

You don’t need to know which box you belong in before we start. We can begin with how you actually experience the world.