Online therapy for highly sensitive adults navigating emotional overwhelm, people-pleasing, perfectionism, and self-doubt.
You may feel things deeply, catch the shift in someone’s tone before they finish the sentence, and need more time to recover after conflict, pressure, overstimulation, or loss. A conversation someone else forgets in an hour can stay with you for days. Noise, crowds, competing demands, or too much social interaction can leave you depleted long before anyone around you seems tired.
Your reactions carry information. The work is learning which ones need your attention, which ones are old alarms going off, and what helps you respond before everything becomes too much.
Your life can make room for the way your system actually works.
When you understand what overwhelms you and notice your limits sooner, you have more room to decide how you want to respond. If this sounds familiar, request a free consultation and we can talk about whether my approach feels like the right fit.
I understand personally that high sensitivity can affect far more than emotion. It can change the way you process conflict, notice subtle shifts in relationships, respond to your environment, anticipate other people’s needs, and recover after difficult experiences. I also understand how frustrating it can be when the advice is simply to stop thinking so much or become less affected.
My role is to take your experience seriously while helping you look at it with more clarity. Sometimes your sensitivity is noticing something important. Sometimes an old protective response is making something feel more dangerous than it is now. Therapy gives us room to tell the difference without shaming either one.
I am engaged in the room. I listen closely, ask questions, and I will name a pattern when I think it matters. We may look at what overwhelms you, which relationships leave you questioning yourself, and where you learned that your needs were somehow excessive. We may explore what overwhelms you, the relationships that make you question yourself, and the beliefs that tell you your needs are too much.
Instead of only analyzing the reaction, we get curious about the part of you that learned to respond this way. What is it watching for? What does it believe would happen if it stopped? What is it trying so hard to protect? That curiosity can create more room between what you feel and what you automatically do next.
You probably already use parts language without thinking about it: “Part of me wants to say no, but another part feels guilty,” or “Part of me knows I need rest, but another part thinks I should be able to handle more.”
In IFS, those reactions are not treated as evidence that something is wrong with you. Parts can show up through thoughts, emotions, physical sensations, images, impulses, or simply a familiar way you respond when something feels threatening or overwhelming. We get curious about why that response developed and what it believes would happen if it stopped doing its job.
When you notice more and feel things deeply, your protective responses may work especially hard. You may have a part that scans constantly for shifts in someone’s mood. A part that tries to prevent conflict by keeping everyone happy. A perfectionistic part that believes mistakes will lead to criticism. Or a part that pushes through exhaustion because needing more recovery time feels unacceptable.
Instead of arguing with those reactions, we can understand what they are protecting. Over time, that can create more room to notice what you are feeling without automatically having to act from it.
You can be sensitive without every uncomfortable interaction becoming a crisis to solve. You can notice someone else’s disappointment without immediately making it your responsibility. And you can respect your limits without assuming those limits mean there is something wrong with you.
I am an IFS Institute Level 2 Trained Psychologist. I completed Level 1 training in September 2024 and Level 2 in June 2025. I also have a doctorate in clinical psychology and training in psychodynamic, humanistic and cognitive-behavioral approaches. I’m working on my IFS certification and hope to be done with that by the end of 2027.
Level 2 is advanced training through the IFS Institute for clinicians who have already completed Level 1. I use the wording “Level 2 Trained” intentionally. IFS Certified is a separate credential and I do not use the terms interchangeably.
Being highly sensitive can affect how you experience conflict, relationships, sensory input, pressure, and other people’s emotions. Therapy helps you understand those reactions without treating sensitivity itself as the problem.
We look at the situations, relationships, and environments that leave you depleted, overstimulated, or questioning yourself so you can recognize your limits sooner.
Together, we get curious about the parts of you that overthink, anticipate criticism, keep the peace, or push through exhaustion, and why those responses learned to work so hard.
We work toward boundaries, recovery, and new ways of responding that respect your sensitivity while giving you more choice in how you move through the world.
No. You do not need a formal diagnosis to explore how deeply you process emotion, relationships, sensory information, or your environment. Therapy can focus on the experience without requiring you to fit perfectly into a label.
The work focuses on helping you feel less overwhelmed and more able to choose what you do with what you feel. Your sensitivity remains part of who you are. We are working on capacity, recovery, boundaries, and response.
That is okay. You may simply know that conflict affects you deeply, your environment overwhelms you easily, or you notice things other people seem to brush past. We can work with what is happening without requiring certainty about the label.
Yes. We can work on recognizing triggers and limits earlier, reducing shame around what you need, and finding more sustainable ways to respond to overstimulation.
When another condition or evaluation may be relevant, we can also discuss whether additional support would be useful.
No. Knowing that you need a boundary and being able to tolerate what happens after you set one are different things. We can work with the guilt, fear, family roles, and protective patterns that make boundaries hard to hold.
We usually begin with something real that is happening in your life. For example, you cannot stop replaying a conversation. Or you know a boundary would help, but every attempt brings up guilt. You might be completely overwhelmed and still find yourself pushing through.
Rather than only analyzing the situation, I may invite you to slow down and notice what happens inside when we talk about it. A reaction might show up as a thought, feeling, physical sensation, image, urge, or simply a sense that one part of you feels very strongly about what should happen next. IFS specifically allows for parts to be experienced in many different ways, and the model emphasizes respecting protective responses and the client’s pace.
We might become curious about what that part is afraid would happen if it stopped protecting you. You do not need to force an answer. The work develops at a pace that makes sense for you.
