Highly Sensitive Person therapists in Willowdale, Ontario ON, Canada CA
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Highly Sensitive Person
Sunlight Counselling, Melody Mann
Registered Social Worker, MSW, RSW
Being a highly sensitive person can be both a gift and a challenge. You might feel deeply affected by your surroundings, easily overwhelmed by noise or conflict, and quick to notice the emotions of others. While your sensitivity allows for empathy, creativity, and depth, it can also lead to exhaustion or self-criticism in a world that often feels too loud. In therapy, we’ll explore how to understand and honour your sensitivity as a strength, develop tools for emotional regulation and boundaries, and create space for rest and self-acceptance. Together, we’ll help your sensitivity feel like something to embrace, not something to manage.
22 Years Experience
In-Person Near Willowdale, ON
Online in Willowdale, ON Ontario
Highly Sensitive Person
Infinite Horizons Psychotherapy
Registered Psychotherapist, MCP, CCS, RP
Being highly sensitive can mean feeling emotions deeply and becoming easily overwhelmed by your environment. While this can be a strength, it can also feel exhausting at times. We help you understand your sensitivity and develop tools to manage overstimulation. Therapy supports you in embracing this trait while protecting your energy.
11 Years Experience
In-Person Near Willowdale, ON
Online in Willowdale, ON Ontario
Highly Sensitive Person
Amanda Neves Therapy + Associates
Registered Social Worker, MSW, RSW
Being highly sensitive can feel like both a gift and a challenge. Emotions, sensory input, and the feelings of others may feel overwhelming, leaving you drained or misunderstood. Our trauma-informed, somatic, and experiential approach helps you understand your sensitivity, regulate intense emotions, and embrace your depth as a strength. Using Attachment-Focused Therapy, AEDP, and IFS, we explore relational patterns, self-criticism, and stress responses, creating a safe space to cultivate self-compassion, resilience, and balance. Sessions are offered in-person in Toronto and virtually across Ontario, making support accessible wherever you are.
11 Years Experience
In-Person Near Willowdale, ON
Online in Willowdale, ON Ontario
Highly Sensitive Person
Jose Luis Lopez Vargas
Registered Psychotherapist, RP.
Sensitivity is welcomed as a strength. I help highly sensitive clients understand their sensory and emotional boundaries, recognize overload signals in their bodies, and develop supportive strategies to regulate stimulation. The work emphasizes self-acceptance, clear limits, and honouring your depth of perception.
7 Years Experience
In-Person Near Willowdale, ON
Online in Willowdale, ON Ontario
Highly Sensitive Person
Hannah Bickle | Self, Relationships, Emotions
Registered Psychotherapist, RP (Q)
As a highly sensitive person, you may experience emotions deeply and be especially attuned to the needs, moods, and expectations of those around you. While this awareness can be a gift, it can also make it difficult to separate your own feelings from those of others, leaving you feeling overwhelmed, drained, or unsure of what you need.
In therapy, we can explore how your sensitivity shapes your experiences and relationships, helping you build a stronger connection to your own needs, emotions, and intuition.
1 Years Experience
In-Person Near Willowdale, ON
Online in Willowdale, ON Ontario
Highly Sensitive Person
Azin Heydari
Registered Psychotherapist, RP; MA
As an HSP, your nervous system processes the world more deeply. I help clients embrace this sensitivity as a strength while learning grounded ways to manage overwhelm and emotional intensity. Together, we build tools for balance, boundary-setting, and thriving rather than coping.
6 Years Experience
In-Person Near Willowdale, ON
Online in Willowdale, ON Ontario
Highly Sensitive Person
Bhavna Lalwani
Registered Psychotherapist, MA Counselling, RP
Being highly sensitive can be both a gift and a challenge. You may notice subtleties in your environment, feel emotions deeply, or become easily overwhelmed by stimuli, relationships, or stress. While these traits can foster empathy, creativity, and intuition, they can also lead to exhaustion, anxiety, or self-doubt if not well-managed.
In therapy, I help highly sensitive individuals understand and honor their unique traits, develop strategies for emotional regulation, set healthy boundaries, and cultivate resilience. Together, we focus on embracing sensitivity as a strength rather than a limitation.
15 Years Experience
Online in Willowdale, ON Ontario (Online Only)
Highly Sensitive Person
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
In-Person Near Willowdale, ON
Online in Willowdale, ON Ontario
Highly Sensitive Person
Halyna Polityka
Registered Psychotherapist, RP, MEd
Feel overwhelmed by emotion? External stimuli? Not wanting to disappoint others, hurt them or see them upset? Perhaps you identify as an empath? We want to keep the beautiful parts of you and update them so that you can take care of yourself and get your needs met too!
10 Years Experience
Online in Willowdale, ON Ontario (Online Only)
Highly Sensitive Person
Mollie Pfendt
Counsellor/Therapist, Registered Psychotherapist
*Welcoming New Ontario-based Clients for Online Work*
I offer a grounded, compassionate space where you can slow down, feel into your experience, and reconnect with yourself.
I offer a grounded, compassionate space where you can slow down, feel into your experience, and reconnect with yourself.
You may feel the world deeply, noticing subtle shifts in mood, environment, and relationships. While this sensitivity can be a source of insight and empathy, it can also feel overwhelming in a fast-moving and demanding world.
In our work together, we’ll move at a pace that respects your nervous system. Through gentle awareness of your thoughts, emotions, and bodily sensations, we’ll explore how your sensitivity shows up in your life and relationships. My approach is embodied and relational, weaving together the wisdom of your mind and body within a supportive therapeutic space.
Rather than trying to change your sensitivity, we’ll explore it together, helping you feel steady, clear, and able to embrace your attunement to the world as a strength.
If my approach resonates, I'd love for you to visit my website (molliepfendt.ca) to learn more or reach out to schedule a consultation call.
5 Years Experience
Online in Willowdale, ON Ontario (Online Only)
Highly Sensitive Person therapists in Willowdale, Ontario, Canada Statistics
Highly Sensitive Person therapists in Willowdale, Ontario, Canada average 10 years of experience and charge around $167 per session. 100% offer online sessions. The top treatment approaches are Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) (71%), Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) (60%), and Narrative Therapy (58%).
Average years in practice
10 Years Experience
Average cost per session
$167
Accept insurance
80%
Offer sliding scale
60%
Gender ID
| 70% |
Female |
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| 19% |
Male |
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| 6% |
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
| 71% | Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) |
| 60% | Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) |
| 58% | Narrative Therapy |
| 55% | Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) |
| 55% | Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) |
| 52% | Internal Family Systems (IFS) |
| 52% | Person-Centered Therapy (Rogerian) |
Ages Served
| 98% | Adult |
| 78% | Young Adult |
| 58% | Teen |
| 58% | Senior |
| 29% | Children |
Client Focus
| 72% | Women |
| 54% | LGBTQ+ |
| 52% | Men |
| 40% | Christian |
| 38% | Persons with Disabilities |