Highly Sensitive Person therapists in Barrie, ON
Browse Highly Sensitive Person therapists in Barrie, Ontario, Canada. Compare credentials, specialties and therapeutic approach. Contact a therapist to learn more.
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Iris Benrubi
Counsellor/Therapist, M.A.
Do you find that you are very emotional and react deeply to things and people around you at a much deeper level than most? There's a high likelihood that you are a high sensitive person and I can help you with strategies to help you manage your emotions and feel more in charge of how you feel and react to the world around you.
26 Years Experience
In-Person Near Barrie, ON
Online in Barrie, ON
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Thamina Ahmadzai
Registered Psychotherapist
Whether you feel overwhelmed by emotions, relationships, stress, or constant overstimulation, therapy offers a space to better understand your sensitivity and embrace it as a strength rather than a limitation. Using a person-centred and compassionate approach, I help clients navigate life while building self-awareness, confidence, and emotional resilience.
3 Years Experience
Online in Barrie, ON (Online Only)
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Alison Taylor
Registered Psychotherapist, RP, GIT.Dip, CAPT, CRPO
If you identify as highly sensitive or easily overwhelmed, you may find yourself constantly pushing past your limits in order to keep up, connect, or meet expectations. What can feel like “too much” is often your system responding intelligently to the demands around you. In our work together, we slow down and explore how stress, burnout, and overstimulation show up in your body, your relationships, and your familiar ways of responding. I’ve spent much of my career as a movement and somatic educator exploring “grounding” techniques that help modulate sensitivity, and we can certainly draw on these techniques to explore what supports work best for you. However, our focus won’t necessarily be on making you less sensitive. (How has your sensitivity been a super-power? When has your sense-ability saved your life? Who needed you to be the feeler so that they didn't have to feel?) Rather, we can focus on helping you pay attention to your body’s your signals, honour your limits (limits actually give us freedom!), and rebuild sustainable capacity. This embodied, relational approach supports you in reconnecting with your sense of aliveness, developing clearer boundaries, and finding ways to fully engage with life while honouring your ability to sense-inwardly and sense-outwardly.
5 Years Experience
Online in Barrie, ON
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Rochelle Aljammas (Trauma, Relationship, BPD)
Registered Psychotherapist, M.A., B.A. (Hons)
Being highly sensitive is a strength — great capacity for empathy, depth of perception, sensitivity to subtleties — but it often comes with overwhelm, self‑criticism, or feeling “too much” in some environments. If this is you, I’ll help you understand your sensitivity, manage overstimulation, set protective boundaries, pace yourself, and use your sensitivity as the gift it is rather than seeing it only as burden.
3 Years Experience
Online in Barrie, ON
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Kyla Lipsman
Registered Social Worker, RSW
I help highly sensitive individuals better understand their sensitivity, manage overwhelm, and use it as a strength rather than a limitation.
6 Years Experience
Online in Barrie, ON (Online Only)
Barrie is a city on Kempenfelt Bay of Lake Simcoe north of Toronto that has become one of Ontario's fastest-growing communities as families and professionals seek more affordable housing within commuting distance of the city, and the resulting rapid growth has created both rising demand for therapy and the particular challenges of a community still building its social infrastructure. Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre provides hospital-based mental health services, and Georgian College contributes to the local supply of trained counsellors through its health and wellness programs. The proximity to Muskoka cottage country and year-round outdoor recreation options give the city a quality-of-life appeal, though cold winters and long commutes to Toronto are among the stressors residents bring to therapy. Common therapy concerns include commuter stress, relocation and transition challenges, seasonal affective disorder, and the pressures of family life in a rapidly changing community.
Highly Sensitive Person therapists in Barrie, ON Statistics
Highly Sensitive Person therapists in Barrie, ON average 9 years of experience and charge around $168 per session. 100% offer online sessions. The top treatment approaches are Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) (69%), Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) (60%), and Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) (54%).
Average years in practice
9 Years Experience
Average cost per session
$168
Accept insurance
78%
Offer sliding scale
55%
Gender ID
| 69% |
Female |
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| 19% |
Male |
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| 7% |
Non-Binary |
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| 5% |
Gender Fluid |
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Session Type
| 51% |
In Person and Online |
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| 49% |
Online Only |
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Top Treatment Approaches
| 69% | Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) |
| 60% | Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) |
| 54% | Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) |
| 52% | Narrative Therapy |
| 51% | Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) |
| 51% | Internal Family Systems (IFS) |
| 48% | Person-Centered Therapy (Rogerian) |
Ages Served
| 100% | Adult |
| 79% | Young Adult |
| 60% | Senior |
| 55% | Teen |
| 21% | Children |
Client Focus
| 73% | Women |
| 55% | Men |
| 51% | LGBTQ+ |
| 42% | Christian |
| 40% | Persons with Disabilities |