Highly Sensitive Person Therapists in Auckland, New Zealand

Gain clarity about your sensitive nature and connect with the parts of you that need attention in challenging situations.

Being a Highly Sensitive Person in a world that isn't built for sensitivity can leave you feeling overwhelmed, misunderstood, or like something's wrong with you for feeling things so deeply. If that resonates, let's work together to help you embrace your sensitivity as a strength rather than a struggle. The first step in working with high sensitivity is understanding that there is nothing wrong with you — your nervous system simply processes the world more deeply, and that comes with real gifts alongside real challenges. In a supportive, non-judgmental space, we'll explore how to protect your energy, set boundaries, and honor your needs without apology. My approach centers self-compassion and practical tools for thriving as a sensitive person in an often overstimulating world. You don't have to feel "too much" alone. Let's take the first step toward a life that honors who you are.

I work primarily from a Rogerian or Person-Centred Therapy (PCT) approach using a conversational style listening patiently to you, always with empathy, genuineness and without judgement, to help find the solutions you desire for your life whilst adjusting my techniques to fit your needs within each session. Due to my background in nursing and mental health, I have a good understanding of high sensitivity issues and how they impact the person including the potential impacts for those around them. I am able to utilise a psycho-educational approach to help you understand your inner emotions better and learn practical strategies to support increased emotional regulation skills and build resilience for coping, along with specific somatic (mind/body) therapy techniques within the therapy session to support greater healing of the often underlying trauma without the need to discuss the details of the trauma that can often be a cause of high sensitivity. These gentle but effective techniques create a new positive sense of self. My aim is to assist you with your high sensitivity difficulties to restore balance, happiness and inner peace (using the various techniques of 'talk therapy' and somatic (mind/body) healing methods) along with offering practical strategies that may be useful where suitable and desired by you. Whatever you are going through, know that there is hope - Let me help you find that hope.

Auckland houses the majority of New Zealand's therapy community, with practitioners concentrated in Parnell, Remuera, Grey Lynn, and the North Shore. The city's housing affordability crisis — one of the worst in the world relative to income — is a persistent source of financial anxiety, and therapists frequently address housing stress, displacement, and the difficulty of achieving stability in one of the world's most expensive property markets. Auckland's large Pasifika and Māori populations require therapists with cultural competence around Indigenous mental health, collectivist family systems, and the historical trauma of colonisation. Te Whatu Ora — Health New Zealand provides public mental health services, with a growing private therapy community serving those with health insurance or the capacity to self-fund.

Gender ID

	67%	Male
	33%	Female

Session Type

	67%	Online Only
	33%	In Person and Online

Top Treatment Approaches

67%	Existential / Humanistic Therapy
67%	Feminist Therapy
67%	Gestalt Therapy
67%	Integrative Therapy
67%	Internal Family Systems (IFS)
67%	Interpersonal Therapy (IPT)
67%	Psychoeducational Therapy

Ages Served

100%	Adult
100%	Young Adult
67%	Senior
67%	Teen
33%	Children

Client Focus

67%	Asian
67%	Black / African American
67%	Buddhist
67%	Christian
67%	Hindu

Highly Sensitive Person therapists in Auckland, New Zealand NZ

Chris Chicoteau

Brett Hall - Therapy for Deep Change

Gaye Mallinson - Somatic Psychotherapies