Therapy for Highly Sensitive Persons

Exploring Holistic Therapy: A Guide for Highly Sensitive People

Do you shift into overwhelm when you're overcome with overstimulation?

Are you finding yourself more anxious than you'd like to be? If you:

• Are someone who deeply feels
• Get rattled easily when there's too much to do
• Arrange your life to avoid upsetting situations
• Feel like withdrawing into a quiet space on busy days to regroup

Being highly sensitive means that things affect you more deeply. This can impact how you experience every day living and handle the stressors that are a part of life. Learning about how being highly sensitive affects your mental health is valuable if you want to feel better.

The Core Aspects of Being a Highly Sensitive Person

Feeling Emotions Strongly

You feel things strongly if you're highly sensitive. Being sensitive means feeling things a lot. Good things feel amazing. Bad things can hit hard and feel awful. They can even overwhelm you. This can make you feel stressed, worried, or sad more often.

Getting Overwhelmed by Senses

Susceptible people notice things others might not. Highly sensitive people naturally process much more info from what their senses pick up on. Busy, crowded, or noisy places might make you feel too much. Those loud noises or bright lights can be too intense. It's all stimulating and can quickly shift to overstimulating. This can make you feel anxious and sometimes even avoid those places.

Being Very Empathetic

Highly sensitive people have an extra level of understanding how others feel. This is empathy. When you get how others feel without asking them. Empathy is gorgeous and it can tire you if you take on others' emotions too much. Or you might feel others' strong emotions, which can be exhausting.

Why Holistic Therapy Supports Highly Sensitive Persons

Holistic therapy can be a rediscovering True North for highly sensitive individuals, offering a path to navigate towards a better emotional state and improved mental wellness. There are ways to feel better, especially for those who are highly sensitive. Isn't that comforting?

Holistic therapy for highly sensitive person provides a soft place to land. It's a safe place to explore your rich inner world, process how you're impacted by the outer world, and discover a kinder way to live in the world. You explore what it's like to be you, a highly sensitive woman, man, or person, in a non-judgmental space. Here are some discoveries you might make:

Dealing with Deep Empathy

You feel intensely and deeply. It's great when you're elevated by music or a walk in nature. It's not so great when you listen to the news and you can't shake the upset, sadness, or shock of what you heard and saw. Learning to surf your emotions is possible instead of being swallowed by them.

Taking Care of You

Learning the art of saying no to things that stress you or don't feel right for you is essential. Letting overwhelmed and overstimulation hang out with you for too long is another step towards feeling compassion fatigued and leading to the potential for burnout. Boundaries are good to have. Learning how to claim your psycho-emotional space is a gift you can give yourself.

Connecting Your Mind to Your Body

Your thoughts, feelings, and physical health work together. You can bootstrap the link between your mind and body to cultivate your emotional health and well-being.

Coping with Stress

Most people, especially sensitive people, find everyday life stressful. Why not discover new ways to manage stress so you can be the boss of stress and not vice versa?

Setting Boundaries

Recognizing your limits. Establishing boundaries. These are a powerful act of self-care. It's a way to take control of your well-being, even when supporting others. Holistic therapy for highly sensitive person can help you figure what's acceptable and what's not for you. It can empower you to prioritize your well-being while still being there for others.

Help Yourself—and Support Your Sensitive Nature

Reaching out for Help

You are not alone. If you’re struggling, reach out. A licensed professional counselor who specializes in sensory processing sensitivity may be a good-option. It’s take courage and it’s brave. The therapeutic space is a soft place to land and a safe place to share, explore, process, and figure things out on your path toward better mental health.

Seeing Your Strengths

Being highly sensitive can be challenging. And it brings unique strengths and superpowers. Recognizing your strengths reconnects you to yourself. It restores your power and naturally grows your confident. It also validates you as you are, helping you embrace your sensitivity.

Being Kind to Yourself

Highly sensitive individuals often struggle with self-criticism and comparison. It’s is very possible to learn to transform your inner critic that points their finger at all things wrong into an inner coach that waves and cheersyou on for being yourself. Having chances to be more kind to yourself makes improving your mental health and wellbeing much more pleasurable.

Learning and Growing

Holistic therapy is a path of healing and self-discovery. You learn more about yourself, cultivate your choice-making power, and uncover strengths and solutions that help you create more smiles each day.

Feeling Strong and Confident

It's about getting back into the driver's seat, where you're behind the wheel of your thoughts and feelings. You're the driver of your psycho-emotional car and can become more in control and have agency over your day.

Struggling with Life’s Ups and Downs? You’re Not Alone.

You're not alone, and there's hope for feeling better. Holistic therapy is empowering. It can help you uncover tools to be in your life with improved mental well-being.

For instance, one highly sensitive client learned how to lower her social anxiety and feel good about herself. They had more rewarding and uplifting times with their friends and better co-worker interactions.

Learning how to handle tough situations and feel good about yourself is possible.

Shift Toward Your Next Level of Mental Health & Wellness

Taking care of your mental health as a highly sensitive person means

• working with your sensory processing sensitivity
• understanding your feelings through the lens of sensitive nature, and
• letting go of comparing yourself to others, especially the non- highly sensitive.

It also means upgrading your self-care and asking for help when needed.

Next Steps: Holistic Therapy for Highly Sensitive Persons

If you're thinking about holistic therapy, Mind Body Well Holistic therapy, Pllc is here for you. If you want to know more or book an appointment, feel free to get in touch and have a brief chat with Lucrezia Mangione, the licensed professional counselor, holistic therapist, and brain trainer here at Mind Body Well Holistic therapy, Pllc. She's here to support you on your journey to feeling better.

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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.