Highly Sensitive Person therapists in Oakland, California CA
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Highly Sensitive Person
Mia Turner
Therapist, MA, RYT, ASDCS, LMFT, NPT-C, CMNCS, CMIP
Support for highly sensitive, deeply feeling, intuitive, empathic, and sensory-aware individuals who experience the world with remarkable depth and intensity. Sensitivity is not viewed as a flaw or weakness, but as a meaningful way of perceiving, processing, and relating to the world.
Together, we explore the intersections of sensitivity, neurodivergence, nervous system regulation, trauma, creativity, spirituality, identity, and relationships. Our work may focus on sensory overwhelm, emotional intensity, boundaries, burnout, compassion fatigue, and unlearning messages that taught you your sensitivity was "too much." Instead, we cultivate ways of caring for your sensitivity as a source of insight, connection, wisdom, and strength.
10 Years Experience
Online in Oakland, CA California (Online Only)
Highly Sensitive Person
KT Glusac
Counselor/Therapist, AMFT, APCC
As a highly sensitive person myself, I deeply understand the challenges and gifts of moving through the world with heightened awareness. In our work, we create supportive practices that honor your sensitivity while helping you build resilience, regulate overwhelm, and nurture your innate intuition.
4 Years Experience
In-Person in Oakland, CA 94609
Online in Oakland, CA California
Highly Sensitive Person
Talia Chanoff
Marriage and Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
I offer therapy for highly sensitive people from a framework that honors sensitivity as a meaningful and adaptive way of experiencing the world. Our work may include understanding how heightened emotional, sensory, and relational awareness can be both a strength and a source of overwhelm, especially in busy environments. Together, we focus on building self-compassion for your superpower, strengthening boundaries to help your nervous system down regulate, and developing sustainable tools, such as pacing, to care for your nervous system. These techniques can help highly sensitive people live with greater ease and authenticity in their bodies, rather than feeling like their natural system is something that needs to be changed or fixed.
8 Years Experience
Online in Oakland, CA California (Online Only)
Highly Sensitive Person
Shirley Johnson,
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, CYT
Sensitivity is not weakness; it is depth. I help highly sensitive individuals regulate overwhelm, honor intuition, and build lives that protect their energy without shrinking their gifts and build confidence with practicing and creating boundaries around their energy.
11 Years Experience
Online in Oakland, CA California (Online Only)
Highly Sensitive Person
The Connection Clinic
Marriage and Family Therapist
We specialize in supporting highly sensitive individuals by fostering a nurturing environment. Here, you can explore your unique sensitivities and develop effective coping strategies that enhance your well-being.
9 Years Experience
Online in Oakland, CA California (Online Only)
Highly Sensitive Person
Chloe Lankshear
Marriage and Family Therapist, M.Ed, Ed/S, LMFT
Being a highly sensitive person isn't a disorder or a curse - it's just who you are and how you are wired. I will help you explore both the pluses and minuses and help you acknowledge and enjoy the good, while perhaps better managing the downsides. Having good boundaries will be essential - for example, knowing where your limits are to avoid you getting excessively drained and knowing how to do good self-care. Whatever your goals are around being highly sensitive, I will work to help you figure out how to achieve them.
12 Years Experience
Online in Oakland, 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 Oakland, CA California (Online Only)
Highly Sensitive Person
Juliana Sloane
Hypnotherapist, CHT
As a highly sensitive person, you feel emotions, stimulus, and stress so much more deeply than others. You don't need me to tell you that this can lead to exhaustion, anxiety, burnout, or self-doubt from the rigors of trying to fit into a world that is often simply way too intense. Hypnotherapy for highly sensitive people helps calm the nervous system and access the subconscious mind to create real, lasting relief. Through a gentle, evidence-based approach, you can strengthen your resilience, feel more hope, and find your way towards thriving even in a world that sometimes feels like too much.
6 Years Experience
Online in Oakland, CA California (Online Only)
Highly Sensitive Person
Aaron Kapin
Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, SEP, LMT
From one highly sensitive person to another, it can be a crazy world out there. Two things that I've found helpful:
1st, resiliency training: Although our bodies can react to things that other people might brush off, Somatic Experiencing can help build up our ability to settle our stress and activation levels. That party might still be uncomfortably loud, but it's more tolerable when you have confidence that you can quickly find comfort again once you leave.
2nd: Boundary training and asking for what you want: As we get better at knowing what would help us feel more comfortable, and better at asking for it, we can start to re-shape our environment to feel better. Then as we feel better, and as our loved ones know how to help us, we are more resourceful, more able to connect with others, and more able to be the people we want to be in the world.
11 Years Experience
Online in Oakland, CA California (Online Only)
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 Oakland, CA California (Online Only)
Oakland has a politically engaged, social-justice-oriented community where many therapists approach their work through an anti-oppression lens, specializing in racial trauma, activist burnout, and healing within BIPOC communities. The city's proximity to San Francisco means therapists here frequently work with the compounding stresses of the Bay Area housing crisis, economic displacement, and the grief of gentrification. Oakland has strong LGBTQ+ and creative communities, with demand for affirming therapists who work at the intersection of identity, community belonging, and personal wellbeing. Highland Hospital and UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland provide institutional anchors alongside a network of independent practitioners.
Highly Sensitive Person therapists in Oakland, California Statistics
Highly Sensitive Person therapists in Oakland, California average 14 years of experience and charge around $201 per session. 100% offer online sessions. The top treatment approaches are Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) (58%), Somatic Therapy (51%), and Psychodynamic Therapy (49%).
Average years in practice
14 Years Experience
Average cost per session
$201
Accept insurance
35%
Offer sliding scale
60%
Gender ID
| 72% |
Female |
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| 20% |
Male |
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| 5% |
Non-Binary |
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| 3% |
Gender Fluid |
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Session Type
| 51% |
Online Only |
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| 49% |
In Person and Online |
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Top Treatment Approaches
| 58% | Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) |
| 51% | Somatic Therapy |
| 49% | Psychodynamic Therapy |
| 49% | Relational Psychotherapy |
| 45% | Existential / Humanistic Therapy |
| 42% | Person-Centered Therapy (Rogerian) |
| 35% | Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) |
Ages Served
| 95% | Adult |
| 75% | Young Adult |
| 65% | Senior |
| 56% | Teen |
| 24% | Children |
Client Focus
| 71% | Women |
| 56% | LGBTQ+ |
| 38% | Men |
| 33% | Persons with Disabilities |
| 29% | Asian |