Online Highly Sensitive Person therapists in Los Osos, California CA
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HSP
Josie Valderrama
Psychologist, PsyD
Too often we are gaslit by the outer world, told that we are too sensitive. When the opposite is more true: that we need to protect ourselves even more from the brutality of the world. Boundary work, intuition training, bolstering discernment via cognitive behavioral strategies--these are just a few of the approaches I utilize. Integrating head and heart. Challenging your comfort zone while strengthening your sense of safety, self-acceptance and peace of mind.
11 Years Experience
Online in Los Osos, CA
HSP
Stephanie Morfitt, LCSW More Fit Mental Health
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
When You Feel Everything Deeply
If you’ve ever been told you’re “too sensitive,” “too emotional,” or that you “care too much,” you may be what’s known as a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) — someone whose nervous system is more finely tuned to the world around them. I understand this on a personal level — I’m an HSP myself. Being highly sensitive is not a flaw; it’s a temperament trait shared by about 20% of people. It means your mind and body process information and emotion more deeply. You notice subtleties, feel others’ moods, and reflect deeply — yet that same sensitivity can make life feel overwhelming, especially when faced with stress, criticism, or conflict.
In therapy, we’ll use a structured, evidence-based approach called TEAM-CBT to help you embrace sensitivity as a strength while learning tools to manage its challenges. Together, we’ll focus on:
Calming the inner critic that tells you you’re “too much”
Reducing anxiety and emotional exhaustion from overstimulation
Setting healthy boundaries without guilt
Building confidence to share your true self with others
Developing emotional tools that turn sensitivity into insight and intuition
Our work will be both structured and gentle — blending neuroscience, mindfulness, and humor to help you feel grounded, capable, and at peace in your own skin.
I BELIEVE:
Sensitivity is not weakness — it’s awareness, empathy, and depth.
You can be both strong and soft, confident and cautious, independent and deeply connected.
Boundaries are not walls; they’re invitations to authentic connection.
You deserve a life that feels calm, balanced, and safe for your sensitive nervous system.
Healing doesn’t mean hardening — it means learning to stay open without being overwhelmed.
Also Integrated In Our Work:
• Interpersonal Work – to strengthen connection and empower you to be yourself using The 5 Secrets of Effective Communication
• Mindful Self-Compassion – to cultivate a gentler, kinder inner voice through the work of Dr. Kristin Neff
• Trauma Resiliency Model (TRM) – to regulate the nervous system and support trauma recovery alongside cognitive tools for a well-rounded approach
10 Years Experience
Online in Los Osos, CA
HSP
Michelle Roberts
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
Some of us live, hear, sense, and feel at a different frequency. It's your superpower, and sometimes your downfall. It's okay. We will work together to help you build love and acceptance for all parts of yourself, and find ways to resource you so that you can find routes back to wellbeing.
12 Years Experience
Online in Los Osos, CA (Online Only)
HSP
Sandy Kong
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT 119380
Working with a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) involves creating a calm, low-stimulation environment, embracing a slower processing pace, and validating their deep emotional experiences. Therapy helps them to reframe sensitivity as a strength, focus on boundary setting and nervous system regulation, and avoid rushing or overloading them with information. It is extremely important that HSPs learn to appreciate their Sensitive Strengths. Help them see the advantages of being Highly Sensitive and transform their perception of Sensitivity as a weakness. Self-compassion practices can help calm the inner critic and feelings of being different. Taking time to explore and reframe early life experiences through an HSP lens can be incredibly healing. Clients can begin to realize their challenges are not synonymous with their true self. Additionally, helping build awareness of body’s cues so the client can identify when they are beginning to feel overwhelmed - this makes it easier to reduce input, decrease stimulation and manage intense emotions.
11 Years Experience
Online in Los Osos, CA
HSP
Mia Turner
Therapist, MA, RYT, ASDCS, LMFT, NPT-C, CMNCS, CMIP
Support for highly sensitive, deeply feeling, intuitive, empathic, and sensory-aware individuals who experience the world with remarkable depth and intensity. Sensitivity is not viewed as a flaw or weakness, but as a meaningful way of perceiving, processing, and relating to the world.
Together, we explore the intersections of sensitivity, neurodivergence, nervous system regulation, trauma, creativity, spirituality, identity, and relationships. Our work may focus on sensory overwhelm, emotional intensity, boundaries, burnout, compassion fatigue, and unlearning messages that taught you your sensitivity was "too much." Instead, we cultivate ways of caring for your sensitivity as a source of insight, connection, wisdom, and strength.
10 Years Experience
Online in Los Osos, CA (Online Only)
HSP
Shirley Johnson,
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, CYT
Sensitivity is not weakness; it is depth. I help highly sensitive individuals regulate overwhelm, honor intuition, and build lives that protect their energy without shrinking their gifts and build confidence with practicing and creating boundaries around their energy.
11 Years Experience
Online in Los Osos, CA (Online Only)
HSP
Talia Chanoff
Marriage and Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
I offer therapy for highly sensitive people from a framework that honors sensitivity as a meaningful and adaptive way of experiencing the world. Our work may include understanding how heightened emotional, sensory, and relational awareness can be both a strength and a source of overwhelm, especially in busy environments. Together, we focus on building self-compassion for your superpower, strengthening boundaries to help your nervous system down regulate, and developing sustainable tools, such as pacing, to care for your nervous system. These techniques can help highly sensitive people live with greater ease and authenticity in their bodies, rather than feeling like their natural system is something that needs to be changed or fixed.
8 Years Experience
Online in Los Osos, CA (Online Only)
HSP
Kim Salinger
Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner, MBA, MSN, PMHNP, FNP, AHN
Highly sensitive individuals often experience the world more deeply, including heightened emotional awareness, sensory sensitivity, and strong responses to stress or overstimulation. I work with patients who identify as highly sensitive to better understand how sensitivity interacts with mood, anxiety, sleep, nervous system regulation, and overall health. Care is integrative and individualized, with attention to both psychological and medical factors, and focuses on guidance, education, and psychiatric support when appropriate to help patients feel more balanced, resilient, and supported.
14 Years Experience
Online in Los Osos, CA
HSP
KT Glusac
Counselor/Therapist, AMFT, APCC
As a highly sensitive person myself, I deeply understand the challenges and gifts of moving through the world with heightened awareness. In our work, we create supportive practices that honor your sensitivity while helping you build resilience, regulate overwhelm, and nurture your innate intuition.
4 Years Experience
Online in Los Osos, CA
HSP
Elizabeth Nims
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
HSP often experiencing the world in a way that is different from others, resulting in feeling misunderstood. I provide empathy and validation to help HSP individuals learn how to navigate life and relationships in a sustainable way that does not feel so draining and daunting.
7 Years Experience
Online in Los Osos, CA
HSP
Lisa Chester-Schyman
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT
As a therapist who understands the unique experiences of High Sensitive Persons (HSPs), I offer a gentle, affirming space to explore the challenges and gifts of sensitivity. It may be you feel easily overwhelmed, deeply affected by the emotions of others, or in need of more space and time to process life, we can work together to help you navigate the word with greater ease and self-compassion.
8 Years Experience
Online in Los Osos, CA (Online Only)
HSP
Christina Dee
Marriage and Family Therapist, M.A. LMFT
High sensitivity is a neurological trait, not a flaw. I help HSPs understand and embrace their way of processing the world, develop tools for managing overstimulation and emotional intensity, and transform sensitivity into a meaningful strength.
11 Years Experience
Online in Los Osos, CA
HSP
Diaspora Therapy Group
Marriage and Family Therapist, DSW, LMFT
We support highly sensitive individuals in understanding and embracing their sensitivity as a strength. We help clients navigate emotional intensity, overwhelm, boundaries, and self-compassion. Our work is affirming, grounding, and tailored to nervous system needs.
7 Years Experience
Online in Los Osos, CA
HSP
Melissa Quinn Pollock
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
The highly sensitive individual is imbued with sensory gifts that often get overrun by our environments. HSPs often have a higher likelihood and more intense experience of mental illness. We can work on unique ways to harness your gifts and alleviate stress.
13 Years Experience
Online in Los Osos, CA (Online Only)
HSP
Alicia Stalker-Gallichio LMFT
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, SAP
At Alicia Stalker LMFT we understand that being a highly sensitive person (HSP) can come with unique challenges and profound gifts HSP's often experience the world in vivid detail experiencing emotions more intensely and processing stimuli at a deeper level. While this sensitivity can enrich your fie it can also lead to feigns of overwhelm, anxiety or social exhaustion. My therapy services provide a safe and nurturing environment whereto can explore your experience and develop strategies to navigate the complexities of your sensitivity.
21 Years Experience
Online in Los Osos, CA
HSP
Marina Edelman | TrueMe Counseling
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT
We support highly sensitive individuals in managing overwhelm, emotional intensity, and boundary challenges. Clients learn to view sensitivity as a strength rather than a liability.
20 Years Experience
Online in Los Osos, CA
HSP
Amanda A. Hendricks
Licensed Professional Counselor, LPCC, ATR-BC, MA, MFA, RYT®200, CTMH, EMDRIA Certified Therapist™
In practice, I offer Highly Sensitive People options for processing mental health issues such as art therapy informed by evidence-based treatments, often we integrate DBT and EMDR.
12 Years Experience
Online in Los Osos, CA
HSP
Amy @ Inner Nature Therapy
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, PMH-C
I have completed specialized training working with those who are Highly Sensitive Persons (HSPs), and am one myself! In addition to my therapy practice, I run a website, Substack, and podcast for HSP Parents and Caregivers at www.highlysensitiveparenthood.com.
13 Years Experience
Online in Los Osos, CA (Online Only)
HSP
Hannah Nyznyk Christian
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT #133278
We work with highly sensitive individuals who feel deeply and experience the world intensely. Therapy helps turn sensitivity into a strength rather than a source of overwhelm.
7 Years Experience
Online in Los Osos, CA
HSP
Rebecca Rothberg
Psychologist, Psy.D., M.A., R.Y.T.
I specialize in supporting highly sensitive and growth-oriented individuals who have struggled to find their way, or have endeavored to do so in spite of great obstacles. Helping you to move from a place of surviving to thriving, we will uncover and nurture your innate gifts of exceptional empathy, sensory awareness, vivid creativity, deep intuition, and profound capacity for processing while helping you to regulate your nervous system, hold boundaries, and build resilience.
9 Years Experience
Online in Los Osos, CA
Highly Sensitive Person therapists in Los Osos, California Statistics
Highly Sensitive Person therapists in Los Osos, California average 14 years of experience and charge around $202 per session. 100% offer online sessions. The most commonly treated issues are Highly Sensitive Person (100%), Anxiety or Fears (91%), and Stress (81%).
Average years in practice
14 Years Experience
Average cost per session
$202
Gender ID
| 77% |
Female |
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| 15% |
Male |
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| 5% |
Non-Binary |
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| 3% |
Gender Fluid |
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Session Type
| 50% |
In Person and Online |
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| 50% |
Online Only |
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Top Specialties
| 100% | Highly Sensitive Person |
| 91% | Anxiety or Fears |
| 81% | Stress |
| 80% | Trauma and PTSD |
| 72% | Self Esteem |
| 72% | Depression |
| 67% | Loss or Grief |