The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination.
Maya Angelou
Honouring Sensitivity: A Space for Deep Feelers
Sensitivity is not weakness - it’s wisdom. It’s the ability to notice what others miss, to feel deeply, and to care profoundly. If you often find yourself overwhelmed by emotion, attuned to others’ needs, or needing more time to recharge, you’re not alone - and you’re not “too much.”
I work with highly sensitive individuals (known as Highly Sensitive Persons or HSP) who want to feel more grounded, set clearer boundaries, and reconnect with their inner clarity.
My approach is gentle, symbolic, and emotionally attuned - designed to meet you where you are, without rushing or overwhelming. My aim is to highlight that being highly sensitive is not a problem that needs fixing, but a personality trait to understand.
What Does High Sensitivity Mean?
Psychologist Dr. Elaine Aron, who first identified and researched the trait in the 1990s, describes high sensitivity as Sensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS) - a temperament found in roughly 15–30% of the population. People with this trait, often called Highly Sensitive Persons (HSPs), are more deeply affected by what they experience and more finely attuned to both their inner world and the environment around them. High sensitivity involves:
- Deep processing – reflecting carefully and thoughtfully on experiences and information.
- Emotional intensity – feeling emotions more strongly, whether joy or sorrow.
- Heightened empathy – being attuned to the moods and needs of others.
- Sensitivity to stimuli – bright lights, loud sounds, strong smells, or coarse textures can feel overwhelming.
- Need for downtime – requiring quiet, restorative space to recharge.
- Rich inner life – vivid imagination, deep thoughts, and strong emotional responses to beauty and meaning.
Because it is less common to be a highly sensitive person, and because society often caters to those less affected by their surroundings, HSPs may find themselves struggling under stress. Deep processing can bring gifts of creativity, insight, and meaningful relationships, but it can also lead to worry, anxiety, emotional exhaustion, self‑criticism, perfectionism, or people‑pleasing. This can cause many sensitive people to grow up feeling as though something is “wrong” with them.
High sensitivity is not a flaw - it is an innate trait that brings depth, compassion, and creativity. While it can make judgment or harsh environments feel especially painful, it also allows for profound connection, appreciation of beauty, and the capacity to notice what others might miss.
How I Support Highly Sensitive Persons Through Counselling & Transpersonal Coaching
What is Transpersonal Coaching?
Transpersonal coaching is a holistic approach that goes beyond problem‑solving and goal‑setting. It recognises that we are more than our thoughts, emotions, and behaviours - we are also shaped by our deeper values, intuition, and sense of meaning. This style of coaching invites you to explore your inner world, connect with your authentic self, and align your actions with what truly matters to you. It blends practical tools with a spiritual and psychological perspective, helping you grow not only in confidence and clarity, but also in wholeness.
As both a counsellor and transpersonal coach, I offer a space where high sensitivity is not only understood - but deeply honoured. Counselling provides healing, insight, and emotional safety, while coaching adds forward‑looking strategies and empowerment. Together, they create a pathway that supports both inner healing and outer growth.
Validation and Understanding
I provide a safe, non-judgmental space where your sensitivity is seen as a strength - not a flaw. Many HSPs have grown up feeling “too much” or misunderstood. Together, we’ll rewrite that story and explore what it means to embrace your sensitivity with pride.
Emotional Regulation
If you often feel emotionally flooded or overstimulated, I’ll guide you through grounding practices like mindfulness and progressive relaxation. We’ll also explore cognitive reframing to gently shift unhelpful thought patterns and build emotional resilience.
Boundaries and Assertiveness
Sensitivity doesn’t mean you have to absorb everyone else’s emotions. I’ll help you develop clear, compassionate boundaries, assertive communication skills, and self-protective rituals that honour your emotional needs.
Healing from Overwhelm and Past Experiences
Whether you’re carrying unresolved emotional wounds or simply feeling burnt out, counselling offers a space to process, heal, and rebuild your sense of safety and strength.
Self-Esteem and Identity
I’ll support you in reconnecting with the gifts of your sensitivity - your creativity, empathy, and insight. Together, we’ll shift the inner dialogue from “What’s wrong with me?” to “This is my superpower.”
Navigating Relationships
If you crave depth but feel drained by social dynamics, we’ll explore how to communicate your needs, resolve conflict with care, and understand relationship patterns rooted in early attachment.
A Journey Toward Self-Confidence and Clarity
Counselling with me is an invitation to explore your inner world, understand your needs, and distinguish between fears that can be gently overcome - and traits that deserve acceptance. It’s a space for introspection, growth, and emotional empowerment. And for once - you’ll be the centre of attention. Your sensitivity will be seen, heard, and celebrated.
Counselling or Transpersonal Coaching?
Counselling and transpersonal coaching share the same heart: supporting you to understand yourself more deeply and live with greater ease. Yet they offer slightly different pathways.
- Counselling focuses on healing and exploration. It provides a safe, reflective space to process past experiences, explore emotions, and make sense of patterns that may be holding you back. It is often about understanding, acceptance, and working through what feels painful or unresolved.
- Transpersonal Coaching is more future‑oriented. It invites you to connect with your values, intuition, and sense of meaning, while developing practical strategies to move forward. Coaching is about clarity, action, and aligning your life with what matters most to you.
While these approaches can stand alone, they also complement each other beautifully. I can weave coaching tools and perspectives into a counselling framework, creating a blended approach that honours both healing and growth. This way, you receive the depth and safety of counselling alongside the empowerment and direction of coaching - supporting you to not only understand your sensitivity, but to thrive with it.