Highly Sensitive Person Therapists in Auckland, New Zealand

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I support highly sensitive individuals in understanding and embracing their sensitivity. Together, we explore strategies to manage overwhelm, set healthy boundaries, and cultivate self-compassion, helping you thrive while honoring your unique emotional depth

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.

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

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 Pacific Islander and Māori populations require therapists with cultural competence around Indigenous mental health, collectivist family systems, and the historical trauma of colonization. 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%	Female
	33%	Male

Session Type

	67%	Online Only
	33%	In Person and Online

Top Treatment Approaches

67%	Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
67%	Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
67%	Internal Family Systems (IFS)
67%	Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)
67%	Integrative Therapy
67%	Person-Centered Therapy (Rogerian)
67%	Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)

Ages Served

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

Client Focus

100%	Black / African American
100%	LGBTQ+
100%	LDS/Mormon
100%	Men
100%	Asian

Highly Sensitive Person therapists in Auckland, New Zealand NZ

The Becoming Practice

Gaye Mallinson - Somatic Psychotherapies

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