Online Highly Sensitive Person therapists in Ottawa, Ontario ON, Canada CA
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Rikki-Lee Epp
Therapist, Registered Psychotherapist, RP, BA, Dipl. Psych.
I support highly sensitive people by honoring their deep emotional attunement as a strength, not a flaw. Through a psychodynamic lens, we explore how early experiences may have shaped sensitivity into self-protection, hypervigilance, or self-silencing. Together, we create a space where your inner world can be safely explored—making room for clearer boundaries, self-trust, and a more grounded sense of identity.
3 Years Experience
Online in Ottawa, ON (Online Only)
HSP
Amy Moroz
Psychologist, M.Ed.C.Psych. Clinical & Counselling Psychologist
I work well with highly sensitive individuals who often feel overwhelmed by emotion, overstimulated by their environment, or burdened by others' needs. Together, we slow things down and create a space where sensitivity is not a flaw, but a strength. Using emotion-focused, somatic, and mindfulness-based strategies, we explore protective patterns like people-pleasing or emotional suppression, and begin to reconnect with your inner clarity, boundaries, and self-worth.
17 Years Experience
Online in Ottawa, ON (Online Only)
HSP
Alessia Zita | Zita Psychotherapy
Registered Psychotherapist, Registered Psychotherapy (Qualifying)
Do you often feel easily overwhelmed, deeply affected by your environment, or emotionally impacted by situations others seem to brush off? Many highly sensitive people grow up learning to downplay their reactions or push through overstimulation because they’re told they’re “too much”, “too sensitive”, or need to toughen up. Over time, this can lead to exhaustion, self-doubt, or disconnection from your needs.
Sensitivity is not a flaw—it’s a trait rooted in depth of processing, awareness, and empathy. What matters is how you care for yourself when stimulation and emotions arise. Together, we can explore how your sensitivity shows up, understand what your nervous system needs, and develop ways to live that honour your depth rather than drain it—so you can feel more regulated, confident, and lighter in your day-to-day life. You experience the world deeply for a reason. Let’s explore why, and what comes next.
2 Years Experience
Online in Ottawa, ON (Online Only)
HSP
Samantha Williams-Lauder
Registered Social Worker, MSW,RSW
Being highly sensitive can mean feeling deeply affected by emotions, conflict, sensory input, criticism, or the needs of others. While sensitivity can be a strength, it may also become overwhelming without support and boundaries. Therapy can help you better understand your nervous system, honour your sensitivity, and build tools for grounding and self-care.
1 Years Experience
Online in Ottawa, ON
HSP
Jose Luis Lopez Vargas
Registered Psychotherapist, RP.
Sensitivity is welcomed as a strength. I help highly sensitive clients understand their sensory and emotional boundaries, recognize overload signals in their bodies, and develop supportive strategies to regulate stimulation. The work emphasizes self-acceptance, clear limits, and honouring your depth of perception.
7 Years Experience
Online in Ottawa, 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 Ottawa, 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 Ottawa, ON
HSP
Jonathan Christink
Registered Psychotherapist, BA, BEd, MEd, Registered Psychotherapist
As a highly sensitive person, life can feel overwhelming. Learning more about your own wonderful, and unique idiosyncrasies can nurture a deep self-respect and acceptance that can ground and stabilize even the most highly sensitive individuals. If you're looking for therapy to work on difficulties surrounding sensitivities please don't hesitate to reach out, it'd be wonderful to connect.
16 Years Experience
Online in Ottawa, ON (Online Only)
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 Ottawa, ON (Online Only)
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 Ottawa, ON (Online Only)
HSP
Atlas Therapy
Registered Psychotherapist, MA, RP
We support highly sensitive individuals in understanding and embracing their heightened emotional and sensory awareness as a strength rather than a burden. Through a compassionate, strengths-based approach, we help clients develop effective coping strategies for managing overwhelm, setting boundaries, regulating emotions, and navigating relationships and environments with greater ease. Our goal is to foster self-acceptance, resilience, and a more balanced, empowered way of living.
11 Years Experience
Online in Ottawa, ON
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 Ottawa, ON
HSP
Tamara Daniszewski
Registered Social Worker, M.ED, MSW, RSW
Highly sensitive people feel deeply, notice subtleties others miss and can become easily overwhelmed by noise, conflict or criticism. In therapy, we help you understand your sensitivity as a strength rather than a flaw, while building coping tools to protect your energy and nervous system. You can be sensitive and strong at the same time.
13 Years Experience
Online in Ottawa, 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 Ottawa, ON
HSP
Justin Mulder
Registered Psychotherapist, M.A., Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying)
Highly sensitive people should not be made to feel alone in this world. I approach our work together from a neurodiversity-affirming perspective. Rather than viewing it as something that needs to be “fixed,” I see it as a deeper way of thinking, processing, and engaging with the world. In our work together, we will look at how it shows up in your daily life trough things like self-criticism, emotional intensity, focus, motivation, and overwhelm. If you’ve spent a long time feeling like you’re the problem, therapy might be a place where that finally starts to change.
2 Years Experience
Online in Ottawa, 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 Ottawa, 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 Ottawa, ON
HSP
Rebecca Goldstein, TuneinTherapy, ADHD | Trauma | Autism
Registered Social Worker, RSW, MSW, MTA, BMT, FAMI
Being highly sensitive is not a flaw, weakness, or something you simply need to “toughen up.” For many people, sensitivity can mean experiencing emotions, relationships, environments, and stress more deeply — which can be both meaningful and exhausting.
High sensitivity can also overlap with trauma, neurodivergence, anxiety, sensory overwhelm, or years of feeling misunderstood, dismissed, or “too much.”
My approach is about helping you better understand your sensitivity, reduce shame, strengthen boundaries, and work with your nervous system rather than constantly against it. Together, we focus on building a life where your sensitivity can feel more like insight and strength — not just overwhelm.
12 Years Experience
Online in Ottawa, ON (Online Only)
HSP
Rakan Himadeh
Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, SEP, ISP Candidate
Being a Highly Sensitive Person doesn’t mean something is “wrong”; it means your nervous system processes the world more deeply and intensely. Somatic Experiencing (SE) and Integral Somatic Psychology (ISP) support HSPs by helping regulate the activation that comes with overstimulation, strong emotions, and subtle shifts in the environment. SE brings more stability to the body by working with activation, overwhelm, and the tendency to freeze or shut down when things feel too much. ISP adds emotional capacity, helping you stay present with feelings and sensations without becoming flooded. Together, these approaches create more resilience, clearer boundaries, and a grounded sense of self, allowing sensitivity to become a strength rather than a source of exhaustion.
4 Years Experience
Online in Ottawa, ON (Online Only)
HSP
Olga Lacroix
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, RSW, PCC
Highly sensitive individuals often experience emotions, environments, and relationships more intensely. While this sensitivity can be a strength, it can also lead to overwhelm, emotional fatigue, and difficulty setting boundaries. I help highly sensitive clients understand their nervous system, regulate emotional input, and develop tools to navigate life with greater balance, confidence, and self-compassion.
21 Years Experience
Online in Ottawa, ON
Ottawa's identity as Canada's capital and a major hub for the federal public service creates a therapy landscape shaped by the particular stresses of government work — including bureaucratic frustration, political exposure, and the weight of careers lived in proximity to national policy decisions. The city's large bilingual population means both French- and English-speaking therapists are essential, with many practitioners offering services in both official languages. The Ottawa Hospital and Montfort Hospital provide institutional mental health resources alongside a private practice community serving the Glebe, Westboro, and Barrhaven areas. Ottawa's significant visible minority communities — including large Lebanese, Chinese, and Somali populations — drive growing demand for culturally affirming and multilingual therapists.
Highly Sensitive Person therapists in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Statistics
Highly Sensitive Person therapists in Ottawa, 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
| 68% |
Female |
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| 19% |
Male |
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| 8% |
Non-Binary |
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| 5% |
Gender Fluid |
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Session Type
| 52% |
In Person and Online |
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| 48% |
Online Only |
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Top Specialties
| 100% | Highly Sensitive Person |
| 94% | Anxiety or Fears |
| 91% | Stress |
| 86% | Self Esteem |
| 84% | Depression |
| 81% | Trauma and PTSD |
| 80% | Social Anxiety |