Online Highly Sensitive Person therapists in Old East York, Ontario ON, Canada CA
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HSP
Kyla Lipsman
Registered Social Worker, RSW
I help highly sensitive individuals better understand their sensitivity, manage overwhelm, and use it as a strength rather than a limitation.
6 Years Experience
Online in Old East York, ON (Online Only)
HSP
Alison Taylor
Registered Psychotherapist, RP, GIT.Dip, CAPT, CRPO
If you identify as highly sensitive or easily overwhelmed, you may find yourself constantly pushing past your limits in order to keep up, connect, or meet expectations. What can feel like “too much” is often your system responding intelligently to the demands around you. In our work together, we slow down and explore how stress, burnout, and overstimulation show up in your body, your relationships, and your familiar ways of responding. I’ve spent much of my career as a movement and somatic educator exploring “grounding” techniques that help modulate sensitivity, and we can certainly draw on these techniques to explore what supports work best for you. However, our focus won’t necessarily be on making you less sensitive. (How has your sensitivity been a super-power? When has your sense-ability saved your life? Who needed you to be the feeler so that they didn't have to feel?) Rather, we can focus on helping you pay attention to your body’s your signals, honour your limits (limits actually give us freedom!), and rebuild sustainable capacity. This embodied, relational approach supports you in reconnecting with your sense of aliveness, developing clearer boundaries, and finding ways to fully engage with life while honouring your ability to sense-inwardly and sense-outwardly.
5 Years Experience
Online in Old East York, ON
HSP
Clare Pentelow
Therapist, MSW, RSW
If you have been told your whole life that you are "too sensitive," "too dramatic," or that you "take things too personally," you may be navigating the world as a Highly Sensitive Person. Being an HSP is not a diagnosis; it is a unique nervous system trait that allows you to process information deeply. However, in a world that is often loud and fast-paced, this can lead to chronic overstimulation, social exhaustion, and a deep sense of being misunderstood.
Using an IFS and relational approach, we will work to unpack the impact of growing up sensitive in a neurotypical world. We’ll get to know the parts of you that have learned to "mask" or hide your sensitivity to fit in. By weaving in psychodynamic insights and self-compassion, I help you move from a state of sensory and emotional overwhelm to one of self-acceptance. Together, we will focus on honoring your boundaries, protecting your energy, and reclaiming the strengths of your sensitivity—such as your deep empathy, intuition, and creativity.
16 Years Experience
Online in Old East York, ON
HSP
Bhavna Lalwani
Registered Psychotherapist, MA Counselling, RP
Being highly sensitive can be both a gift and a challenge. You may notice subtleties in your environment, feel emotions deeply, or become easily overwhelmed by stimuli, relationships, or stress. While these traits can foster empathy, creativity, and intuition, they can also lead to exhaustion, anxiety, or self-doubt if not well-managed.
In therapy, I help highly sensitive individuals understand and honor their unique traits, develop strategies for emotional regulation, set healthy boundaries, and cultivate resilience. Together, we focus on embracing sensitivity as a strength rather than a limitation.
15 Years Experience
Online in Old East York, ON (Online Only)
HSP
Michelle Hannah
Registered Psychotherapist, Registered Psychotherapist
If you feel deeply, process intensely, or get overwhelmed in environments others find easy, sensitivity may be part of your wiring—not a flaw. I help HSPs understand their emotional landscape, set boundaries, and navigate life with more steadiness and self-acceptance.
8 Years Experience
Online in Old East York, ON
HSP
Durham Psychotherapy (In-person + Direct Billing Available)
Registered Social Worker, MSW,RSW
Turn sensitivity into a strength. Learn nervous-system care, boundaries, and relationship tools that reduce overwhelm. Thrive without shrinking.
16 Years Experience
Online in Old East York, ON
HSP
Edan Tasca
Registered Psychotherapist, RP, Qualifying
Our HSP-informed therapy turns sensitivity into a strength. We teach nervous-system care, boundaries, and relationship tools that reduce overwhelm. Thrive without shrinking yourself.
10 Years Experience
Online in Old East York, ON
HSP
Ashleigh Bell
Registered Psychotherapist, RP, Qualifying
If you feel things “too deeply,” get overwhelmed in busy environments, or need more time to recharge, you may be a highly sensitive person. We’ll explore how your sensitivity shows up, protect your energy with boundaries and routines, and turn this trait into a strength rather than something to hide.
5 Years Experience
Online in Old East York, ON
HSP
Meaningful Connections
Registered Social Worker, Registered Social Worker MSW, RSW , Registered Psychotherapist
Being a Highly Sensitive Person means you may experience emotions, relationships, and your environment more deeply than others. We offer a supportive, non-judgmental space to help you better understand your sensitivity, manage overwhelm, establish healthy boundaries, and embrace your strengths with greater confidence and self-compassion.
16 Years Experience
Online in Old East York, ON
HSP
Strength in Heart Counselling
Treatment Center, RSW, RCC, CCC
Highly sensitive individuals often feel overwhelmed by emotions or sensory input. We offer guidance on managing sensitivity and honoring it as a strength. Sessions focus on self-care, boundaries, and thriving in a sometimes overwhelming world.
8 Years Experience
Online in Old East York, ON
HSP
Mollie Pfendt
Counsellor/Therapist, Registered Psychotherapist
*Welcoming New Ontario-based Clients for Online Work*
I offer a grounded, compassionate space where you can slow down, feel into your experience, and reconnect with yourself.
I offer a grounded, compassionate space where you can slow down, feel into your experience, and reconnect with yourself.
You may feel the world deeply, noticing subtle shifts in mood, environment, and relationships. While this sensitivity can be a source of insight and empathy, it can also feel overwhelming in a fast-moving and demanding world.
In our work together, we’ll move at a pace that respects your nervous system. Through gentle awareness of your thoughts, emotions, and bodily sensations, we’ll explore how your sensitivity shows up in your life and relationships. My approach is embodied and relational, weaving together the wisdom of your mind and body within a supportive therapeutic space.
Rather than trying to change your sensitivity, we’ll explore it together, helping you feel steady, clear, and able to embrace your attunement to the world as a strength.
If my approach resonates, I'd love for you to visit my website (molliepfendt.ca) to learn more or reach out to schedule a consultation call.
5 Years Experience
Online in Old East York, ON (Online Only)
HSP
Sunlight Counselling, Melody Mann
Registered Social Worker, MSW, RSW
Being a highly sensitive person can be both a gift and a challenge. You might feel deeply affected by your surroundings, easily overwhelmed by noise or conflict, and quick to notice the emotions of others. While your sensitivity allows for empathy, creativity, and depth, it can also lead to exhaustion or self-criticism in a world that often feels too loud. In therapy, we’ll explore how to understand and honour your sensitivity as a strength, develop tools for emotional regulation and boundaries, and create space for rest and self-acceptance. Together, we’ll help your sensitivity feel like something to embrace, not something to manage.
22 Years Experience
Online in Old East York, ON
HSP
Iris Benrubi
Counsellor/Therapist, M.A.
Do you find that you are very emotional and react deeply to things and people around you at a much deeper level than most? There's a high likelihood that you are a high sensitive person and I can help you with strategies to help you manage your emotions and feel more in charge of how you feel and react to the world around you.
26 Years Experience
Online in Old East York, ON
HSP
Azin Heydari
Registered Psychotherapist, RP; MA
As an HSP, your nervous system processes the world more deeply. I help clients embrace this sensitivity as a strength while learning grounded ways to manage overwhelm and emotional intensity. Together, we build tools for balance, boundary-setting, and thriving rather than coping.
6 Years Experience
Online in Old East York, ON
HSP
Thamina Ahmadzai
Registered Psychotherapist
Whether you feel overwhelmed by emotions, relationships, stress, or constant overstimulation, therapy offers a space to better understand your sensitivity and embrace it as a strength rather than a limitation. Using a person-centred and compassionate approach, I help clients navigate life while building self-awareness, confidence, and emotional resilience.
3 Years Experience
Online in Old East York, ON (Online Only)
HSP
Michelle Labine
Registered Psychotherapist, Registered Psychotherapist, Registered Counselling Therapist, AASECT Certified Sex Therapist
If you've been told you're "too sensitive," "too emotional," or that you care too much, therapy can help you understand your sensitivity in a different way. Being highly sensitive often means experiencing the world deeply emotionally, relationally and sometimes physically. Together, we can explore your unique needs, reduce overwhelm, strengthen self-trust and boundaries and help you create a life that works with your sensitivity rather than against it.
7 Years Experience
Online in Old East York, ON (Online Only)
HSP
Krishna Vora
Registered Psychotherapist, Registered Psychotherapist
Highly sensitive individuals tend to process emotional and sensory information deeply. While this sensitivity can be a strength—allowing for empathy, creativity, and insight—it can also make environments and relationships feel overwhelming.
Therapy can help highly sensitive people develop strategies to manage overstimulation, set healthy boundaries, and regulate emotional intensity. Understanding sensitivity as a natural trait rather than a weakness can help individuals build confidence and protect their energy.
9 Years Experience
Online in Old East York, ON (Online Only)
HSP
Amanda Stokes
Registered Psychotherapist, RP, E-RYT 500
I hope to validate client's feelings and experiences of being a sensitive person and together we can strategize ways of owning this super power and protecting one's peace through boundaries, self care and nervous system regulation.
9 Years Experience
Online in Old East York, ON (Online Only)
HSP
Britney Victor
Registered Social Worker, MSW, RSW
As an HSP you process stimuli deeply, which can lead to overwhelm in a loud world. I teach sensory-soothing, boundary setting, and nervous-system regulation tailored to sensitive nervous systems. Durham-area clients learn to turn sensitivity into a source of intuition, creativity, and authentic connection.
13 Years Experience
Online in Old East York, ON
HSP
Shauna Switzer, MCP, MA RP
Registered Psychotherapist, MA, MCP, Registered Psychotherapist
Being a highly sensitive person can mean experiencing emotions deeply, noticing subtle details in your environment, and feeling easily overwhelmed by stimulation or stress. While sensitivity is also a strength, it can sometimes feel intense or exhausting. Therapy provides a validating space to better understand sensitivity, develop grounding and boundary-setting skills, and learn how to thrive while honouring your natural temperament.
26 Years Experience
Online in Old East York, ON
Highly Sensitive Person therapists in Old East York, Ontario, Canada Statistics
Highly Sensitive Person therapists in Old East York, Ontario, Canada average 10 years of experience and charge around $166 per session. 100% offer online sessions. The most commonly treated issues are Highly Sensitive Person (100%), Anxiety or Fears (94%), and Stress (91%).
Average years in practice
10 Years Experience
Average cost per session
$166
Gender ID
| 69% |
Female |
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| 19% |
Male |
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| 7% |
Non-Binary |
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| 5% |
Gender Fluid |
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Session Type
| 51% |
In Person and Online |
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| 49% |
Online Only |
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Top Specialties
| 100% | Highly Sensitive Person |
| 94% | Anxiety or Fears |
| 91% | Stress |
| 86% | Self Esteem |
| 85% | Depression |
| 80% | Social Anxiety |
| 80% | Trauma and PTSD |