Being a Highly Sensitive Person: What It Means and How to Thrive

Dear Highly Sensitive Person,

As an HSP, you may often feel like there needs to be more space to express and communicate what's happening. You may be cautious about sharing because you've had experiences where people didn’t have the time—or the capacity—to truly listen.

As an HSP, you live in a world that values doing and thinking over being and feeling. It just happens that you can do both. You get it; you are not a talking head but a communicating human being. You need time to speak and express yourself from your rich inner world of sensing things while creatively using your insights to support the work you do in the world and for others—often in ways that others don’t see.

Holistic therapy, along with neurofeedback or ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, can provide an opening for you. It is a chance to remember how to reconnect to yourself and return to a place where you feel calm, centered, and anchored in your truth.

You Feel, Notice, and Reflect More Deeply Than Most

Our world and your life constantly change. How you respond can come with intense emotional ups and downs. As a highly sensitive person, you may:

• Notice more than others.
• Feel and reflect on things deeply.
• Be more naturally empathetic.
• Be attuned to your surroundings, like the lights, sounds, the space of a room, and the people and pets present.
• Be aware of your commitments to your co-workers, friends, and family. And feel it's essential that you follow through with them thoroughly and thoughtfully.

This makes you a uniquely creative and productive, thoughtful and attentive person, with a depth of understanding that others may not possess. Your capacity for nuance, presence, and intuition is something to honor—not shrink from.

You Long to Feel Centered, Grounded, and at Ease

You want to feel in sync with yourself and anchored into the here and now. Even so, you can get overwhelmed sometimes. You may feel sand-blasted, sleepy, and mentally tired. To cope, sometimes you may binge-watch or emotionally eat or over-exercise or more. You’re still aware that you feel down or anxious, or you keep thinking about your thinking. Sometimes you feel misunderstood or unheard, or you need a little more time to share. And sometimes you just feel like you're different.

It's important to acknowledge that being a highly sensitive person can be exhausting at times, and it's okay to feel that way. You are not alone, and there are tools and support available to help you feel more grounded and understood.

Here’s a Soft Place to Land

Finding a place to explore what's getting in the way of the people and things you yearn for may mean finding a good-fit counselor and a healing space where you feel safe. It also means working with a mind-body therapist who is patient, present, and honors the pace that works for you.

Being a highly sensitive person often comes with a depth of emotion and awareness that deserves special care. Holistic mind-body therapy can help you identify overwhelming patterns, leading to a greater sense of calm, peace, and self-nurturance. This therapy supports a journey of self-exploration, self-worth, and self-discovery. It’s a gentle process that can help you shift into a healthier, more balanced state.

Combining holistic therapy with EEG brain training (also called neurofeedback) often helps people—especially highly sensitive individuals—reach their goals more efficiently. That’s because EEG brain training helps your nervous system return to balance, ease, and calm. Many highly sensitive people who use both neurofeedback and therapy report improved energy, focus, and mood, and often better sleep, too.

Another option is ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, which pairs holistic therapy with low-dose oral ketamine sessions. It helps bypass old thought patterns and opens a window into meaningful, lasting change. It’s gentle, empowering, and well-suited for being a highly sensitive person navigating the world with intensity and care.

Being a Highly Sensitive Person—and a Highly Sensitive Woman

If you'd like to connect with a holistic counselor and mind-body therapist who feels being highly sensitive is a superpower, contact me for a call at no charge. I call them Clarity Calls. I can answer your questions directly. You may also email me and ask for my rates. If you like, we can discuss logistics and pave the way for you to receive the holistic counseling you seek.

My goal is you and your goals. In working with you collaboratively and in-depth, I strive to help you work towards realizing them efficiently. Through counseling tools, neurofeedback, ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, privacy, empathy, and practical support, you can explore, heal and move on in your life.  Ready to re-value yourself and handcraft your health? Let me know.

Ready to take the next step? Let’s explore what support could look like—whether through holistic therapy, EEG neurofeedback, or KAP ketamine assisted psychotherapy.

Lucrezia Mangione supports anxious, highly sensitive women in fine-tuning focus, building emotional steadiness, and embracing the strengths of sensitivity. She also partners with therapists and helping professionals to offer brain-based care for clients who feel stuck or stalled. Her integrative approach helps clients feel calm, steady, and spacious—living and working on their own terms.