Highly Sensitive Person therapists in Palo Alto, California CA
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Highly Sensitive Person
Bay Tree Therapy Group
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT
If you’ve ever been told you’re “too sensitive” or feel easily overwhelmed by noise, conflict, or strong emotions—you're not alone. As a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP), your nervous system processes the world deeply, which can be both a strength and a challenge. Therapy can help you understand and embrace your sensitivity, set healthy boundaries, and develop tools to navigate overstimulation and emotional intensity. We honor your unique wiring and work with you to build a life that feels balanced, meaningful, and true to who you are.
5 Years Experience
In-Person Near Palo Alto, CA
Online in Palo Alto, California
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.
7 Years Experience
Online in Palo Alto, California (Online Only)
Highly Sensitive Person
Adam MacDonald
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
Have you been told you "feel too much"? I support individuals and partners to resolve issues around being Highly Sensitive Individuals using effective modalities including somatic, attachment-based, and behavioral interventions to free yourself from thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that keep you stuck.
9 Years Experience
In-Person Near Palo Alto, CA
Online in Palo Alto, California
Highly Sensitive Person
Dr. Claire Vines, Psy.D., DAPA, Psychologist / Licensed /Psychotherapy / Psychoanalytic/
Marriage and Family Therapist, Marriage Counselor, LMFT. Psy.D. Trauma-Focused CBT
A highly sensitive person, is an individual who will experience the world more intensely, processing the world's experiences more deeply often with over stimulation often creating a sense of feeling overwhelmed. The highly sensitive person can experience overstimulation from loud noises, bright lights, and often tuned into others who have confusing sensitive emotions.
20 Years Experience
Online in Palo Alto, California
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.
12 Years Experience
Online in Palo Alto, California (Online Only)