Highly Sensitive Person therapists in Machesney Park, IL
Browse Highly Sensitive Person therapists in Machesney Park, Illinois. Compare credentials, specialties and therapeutic approach. Contact a therapist to learn more.
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HSP
Dr. Shannon Coleman
Psychologist, PhD
Some people experience emotions, sensory experiences, and interpersonal situations with particular intensity. Therapy can help you better understand your sensitivity, manage feeling overwhelmed, and develop ways to use your sensitivity as a strength rather than feeling controlled by it.
21 Years Experience
Online in Machesney Park, IL (Online Only)
HSP
Jenna Wonish-Mottin
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, RPT
I have training and experience with tailoring therapy to HSPs. As a Highly Sensitive Person myself, I can understand the strengths, challenges, and needs of my HSP clients. In therapy with me, I can help you to feel empowered to turn what seems overwhelming at times into something thriving and beautiful. Counseling for HSPs and HSCs may include discussions on having boundaries with others, using assertive communication when needed, finding the best skills to regulate emotions and nervous system responses, as well as identify and use sensitivity strengths as much as possible. Counseling with a Highly Sensitive Person and a Highly Sensitive Child can accommodate for more sensory comfort, depth of processing, collaboration, and validation.
11 Years Experience
Online in Machesney Park, IL (Online Only)
HSP
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 Machesney Park, IL
HSP
Dr. Carol H Paulson
Psychologist, PhD, LP, RN, APRN, DMin
Education and coping skills to learn how to deal with your capacity to use your sensitivity to understand yourself and relationships; emphasis on Self-care and understanding yourself and your needs better so that you can use your gifts and thrive better.
44 Years Experience
Online in Machesney Park, IL (Online Only)
HSP
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 Machesney Park, IL
Highly Sensitive Person therapists in Machesney Park, IL Statistics
Highly Sensitive Person therapists in Machesney Park, 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 |