Highly Sensitive Person therapists in Costa Mesa, California CA
Costa Mesa Therapists (Statistics)
Average years in practice
14 Years Experience
Average cost per session
$198
Gender ID
| 75% |
Female |
|
| 23% |
Male |
|
| 2% |
Non-Binary |
|
Session Type
| 50% |
In Person and Online |
|
| 50% |
Online Only |
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Top Treatment Approaches
| 48% | Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) |
| 46% | Existential / Humanistic Therapy |
| 46% | Person-Centered Therapy (Rogerian) |
| 46% | Somatic Therapy |
| 43% | Psychodynamic Therapy |
| 41% | Relational Psychotherapy |
| 30% | Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) |
We are proud to feature top rated Highly Sensitive Person therapists in Costa Mesa. We encourage you to review each profile to find your best match.
Highly Sensitive Person
Louisa Lombard
Licensed Professional Counselor, LCPC, LPCC, PPS
Being a Highly Sensitive Person comes with great gifts as well as some unique challenges. Researchers estimate that 20-30% of people (and many animal species) are more sensitively-wired. In fact, it's estimated that over 40% of people who reach out for therapy are highly sensitive. I specialize in working with HSPs and have for a number of years. Learning about Dr. Elaine Aron's research around HSPs was transformative for me personally and professionally. I find that HSP clients as well as parents raising HSP kids benefit from HSP-knowledgeable and -supportive therapy, using a gentle approach that identifies and validates the gifts and provides strategies for navigating the tricky parts (prone to overstimulation in overwhelming environments, people-pleasing, perfectionism, boundaries, difficulty with conflict, among others). HSPs are deep feelers, deep processors, have immense empathy for others, and naturally notice all the details of people and the places they are in.
13 Years Experience
Online in Costa Mesa, CA California (Online Only)
Highly Sensitive Person
Noe Rivera, Olive Branch Therapy
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT
Please see my list of specialties for a full list. My specialty areas of treatment, such as self-esteem and depression and relationship problems and more, are all close to me heart where I have honed in treatment for these areas where I have seen effectiveness with clients over the years.
9 Years Experience
In-Person Near Costa Mesa, CA
Online in Costa Mesa, CA California
Highly Sensitive Person
Heidi Hartston
Psychologist, PhD
Highly sensitive people are at greater risk for overwhelm and burnout. You may feel shut down by stress and conflict, and you may become overstimulated by absorbing the emotions of people around you. I can help you build resilience by creating healthy boundaries and regulating your nervous system to maintain calm and take a break from overthinking. I combine insightful, caring depth work with evidence based techniques that are most effective in freeing you from old unhelpful patterns, and helping you to maintain a peaceful, happy life.
35 Years Experience
Online in Costa Mesa, CA California (Online Only)
Highly Sensitive Person
Dr. Stéphanie Gamache, PhD
Hypnotherapist, PhD
Highly sensitive people often experience the world with great emotional depth and intensity. My work integrates psychoanalytic exploration and somatic awareness to help sensitive individuals develop emotional boundaries, nervous system regulation, and self-trust. This process supports sensitivity as a strength rather than a source of overwhelm.
7 Years Experience
Online in Costa Mesa, CA California (Online Only)
Highly Sensitive Person
Aimen Bukhari
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT 144748, LPCC 18977
I work with highly sensitive adults who feel easily overwhelmed, emotionally reactive, or drained by expectations and stimulation. Therapy focuses on nervous system regulation, emotional boundaries, and understanding sensitivity as a strength rather than a flaw.
7 Years Experience
Online in Costa Mesa, CA California (Online Only)
Highly Sensitive Person
Timothy Weymann
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Licensed Clinical Social Worker (L.C.S.W.)
Highly sensitive people often experience the world with remarkable depth, empathy, and awareness—but that depth can also feel overwhelming. I work with highly sensitive clients to better understand and embrace their sensitivity as a strength, while building skills to manage overstimulation, emotional intensity, and boundary challenges. Together, we explore patterns such as people-pleasing, perfectionism, or difficulty saying no, and develop practical tools for nervous system regulation and emotional balance. Using evidence-based approaches, I help clients reframe self-criticism, strengthen boundaries, and cultivate self-trust. We also focus on honoring your needs for rest, reflection, and meaningful connection. My approach is warm, validating, and collaborative. Rather than trying to “toughen up” or change who you are, our work centers on helping you thrive as a highly sensitive person—grounded, confident, and empowered in your relationships and daily life.
14 Years Experience
Online in Costa Mesa, CA California (Online Only)
Highly Sensitive Person
Viktoria Walda Byczkiewicz, Ph.D.
Pre-Licensed Professional, PhD
As a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP), you feel and process stimuli the world presents in a manner that touches you more deeply than most. Whether it be the overwhelm of bright and searing lights, the grating or startling sounds of bustling activity or loud noises in your purview, or knowledge of the suffering of other people, animals, or the natural world, HSPs experience almost everything more intensely and, as a result, can easily become exhausted by overstimulation. At the same time, HSPs have been given the gifts of attunement and heightened empathy. We can transform these sensitivities into strengths as we learn to embrace our uniqueness, understand how we might differ from others, determine realistic boundaries, and learn to proactively communicate our needs.
10 Years Experience
Online in Costa Mesa, CA California (Online Only)
Highly Sensitive Person
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 Costa Mesa, CA California (Online Only)