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Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) Therapist
You Get Overstimulated Easily
Bright lights, loud chatter, ticking clock, and an itchy sweater. Your worst nightmare. As an HSP, you literally experience the external world more. For some sensitive people, each and every sound, noise, and smell is louder, brighter, smelly-er.
You feel everything.
You are attuned to the environment around you and are hypersensitive to others’ feelings and judgments; as a result, you avoid doing things that might disappoint others, even if it’s at the expense of your own needs. You sometimes feel lonely, even when you are with other people. You wonder what other people see in you and sometimes question why they even want to be around you.
You’re EXHAUSTED.
The constant thoughts about the past or the future. The lights. The noises. The to-do lists. You’re trying to keep up, but you feel depleted.
I Have Good News for HSPs
Therapy can help highly sensitive people.
In a supportive (and sometimes even fun) environment, you can change your relationships to your sensitivity
After working with a highly sensitive person therapist, you will start to appreciate the benefits of this trait. You will learn to regulate your emotions, enhance your relationships (no more people-pleasing!), take care of your sensory needs, and build a valued life.
Benefits of Working With an HSP Therapist
1. You won’t have to explain why “small” things feel big
Ever been told, “You’re overreacting,” or “Just let it go”? These statements are invalidating, and they can take a toll on your self-esteem.
As HSP therapists, we know that you process emotions and stimuli differently. What seems small to a non-HSP might feel huge to you. Working with an HSP therapist means being in a space where you don’t have to justify yourself—we get it, and we help you navigate them with clarity, not shame.
2. We know how to help without overwhelming you
The idea of going to therapy can be quite overwhelming. An HSP therapist will make this process a little bit easier. Your therapist understands the balance between challenging growth and emotional safety. We move at your pace, creating a space where you can explore your emotions without feeling flooded.
3. You Will Learn Therapy Skills That Actually Work for HSPs
In therapy at Thrive and Feel, you will learn practical, science-backed emotion regulation skills that actually fit your nervous system. By the end of therapy, you will notice a huge difference in how you move through the world. On a daily basis, you will be using emotion regulation skills to manage overwhelm, effective interpersonal strategies to improve your relationships (i.e., set boundaries), and self-compassion.
4. Your Relationship to your sensitivity will Change
It is exhausting to be frustrated with your sensitivity all the time. An HSP therapist will help you shift from fighting your sensitivity to harnessing it. That means developing skills to set boundaries, avoid emotional burnout, and use your deep empathy and intuition in ways that serve you rather than drain you.
FAQs
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HSPs have nervous systems that process emotions and stimuli more acutely than others. In other words, HSPs feel, think, and perceive more than others.
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When the concept of “the highly sensitive person”, was introduced in 1996, it was estimated 15-20% of people possess this trait. More recent studies have suggested that closer to 30% of the population are HSPs. This research tells us that HSPs are not alone in their experience.
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No, being a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) is not something that needs to be “cured.”
High sensitivity is an innate trait, not a disorder. If you have are highly sensitive, your nervous system naturally process stimuli more deeply.
We do not want to “cure” your high sensitivity, because this part of you is also why you are compassionate, creative, and a deep thinker.
The key to thriving as an HSP is learning how to work with your sensitivity by developing emotion regulation skills, setting boundaries, and creating a lifestyle that supports your needs.