Highly Sensitive Person therapists in Freeport, IL
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Kelly McAleer
Psychologist, Psy.D.
Experiencing the world with greater emotional depth and sensitivity can be meaningful, but it can also feel lonely or overwhelming when others don’t seem to experience things with the same intensity. Therapy offers a space to explore the depth of your feelings and experiences without viewing your sensitivity, perceptions, or way of engaging with the world as something that needs to be changed or corrected.
17 Years Experience
Online in Freeport, IL (Online Only)
HSP
Kyla R. Dannelke
Counselor/Therapist, Masters of Counseling (MA) Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC)
Feeling things deeply can be both a strength and a challenge. If you identify as a highly sensitive person, you may experience emotions intensely, feel overstimulated, or notice things others miss. There’s nothing wrong with experiencing the world this way! At Open Book Therapy, we’ll explore how sensitivity shows up in YOUR life, find tools that support your needs, and make space for your experiences without treating your differences as something to fix. You deserve to feel understood, supported, and comfortable being yourself.
8 Years Experience
Online in Freeport, IL
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Margo Tirado MA LCPC
Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LCPC
Highly Sensitive People (HSPs) experience the world with depth and intensity. Research suggests that about 15–20% of people are wired with a more sensitive nervous system, meaning they process emotions, sensory input, and social cues more deeply. This isn’t a flaw—it’s a temperament. But in a fast-paced, overstimulating world, high sensitivity can start to feel like “too much.” Many HSPs come to therapy feeling overwhelmed, emotionally drained, or unsure how to separate what’s theirs from what they’re absorbing from others.
In my work with highly sensitive clients, I offer a calm, grounding space where sensitivity is understood as a strength that simply needs support. Together, we focus on regulating overwhelm, setting boundaries that actually stick, and learning how to honor your sensitivity without apologizing for it. Therapy becomes a place to build confidence in your inner experience, trust your intuition, and create a life that feels nourishing rather than exhausting—one where your sensitivity works for you, not against you.
31 Years Experience
Online in Freeport, IL
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Eric Tivers (ADHD reWired)
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, ADHD-CCSP
As a highly sensitive and neurodivergent therapist, I understand what it’s like to feel deeply affected by the world around you — the sounds, the energy, the emotions in the room. Sensitivity isn’t a weakness; it’s a form of intelligence and attunement. But without the right boundaries and tools, it can lead to overwhelm, exhaustion, and self-criticism.
Many of the highly sensitive people I work with also have ADHD, autism, or both, which can intensify emotional and sensory experiences. In therapy, I help clients learn how to honor their sensitivity rather than fight it — exploring emotional regulation, sensory balance, and ways to protect your energy without shutting down your empathy. My approach is neurodiversity-affirming and trauma-informed, helping you transform sensitivity from something that drains you into something that guides and grounds you.
17 Years Experience
Online in Freeport, IL (Online Only)
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Juliette Grantham
Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPC
I'm Juliette Grantham, a psychoanalytic psychotherapist working with highly sensitive people.
If you are a highly sensitive person, you likely register more than the people around you: shifts in tone, undercurrents in a room, the emotional weather of everyone present. That perceptiveness is real and often valuable, and it also means overstimulation arrives sooner, recovery takes longer, and you may have spent years being told you are too much or too easily affected.
I work psychoanalytically, which means we do not treat your sensitivity as a defect requiring management. What interests me is the meaning it has taken on: what you learned to do with feeling deeply, whom you learned to feel it for, and how much of your attention is spent monitoring others. That arrangement carries an unconscious logic worth understanding. In sessions there is time to slow down enough to notice your own experience, not just everyone else's.
If being highly sensitive has felt more like a burden than a capacity, I would be glad to talk.
2 Years Experience
Online in Freeport, IL
Highly Sensitive Person therapists in Freeport, IL Statistics
Highly Sensitive Person therapists in Freeport, IL average 16 years of experience and charge around $194 per session. 100% offer online sessions. The top treatment approaches are Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) (57%), Person-Centered Therapy (Rogerian) (48%), and Existential / Humanistic Therapy (45%).
Average years in practice
16 Years Experience
Average cost per session
$194
Accept insurance
48%
Offer sliding scale
41%
Gender ID
| 72% |
Female |
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| 24% |
Male |
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| 4% |
Gender Fluid |
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Session Type
| 52% |
Online Only |
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| 48% |
In Person and Online |
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Top Treatment Approaches
| 57% | Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) |
| 48% | Person-Centered Therapy (Rogerian) |
| 45% | Existential / Humanistic Therapy |
| 45% | Psychodynamic Therapy |
| 43% | Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) |
| 41% | Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) |
| 39% | Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) |
Ages Served
| 100% | Adult |
| 77% | Young Adult |
| 55% | Senior |
| 43% | Teen |
| 18% | Children |
Client Focus
| 61% | Women |
| 55% | LGBTQ+ |
| 34% | Men |
| 30% | Persons with Disabilities |
| 27% | Hispanic / Latino |