Highly Sensitive Person therapists in Bellingham, WA
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Bonfire Healing - Bonnie Deopp, MS, LMHC, CN
Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMHC, CN, EMDR certified, Clinical Supervisor
Welcome, We're so glad you’re here! Bonfire Healing provides outpatient telehealth therapy with focus on complex mental health issues and developmental trauma along with co-occurring eating issues, addictions, chronic health conditions, nuerodiversity, and maladaptive behaviors. Our mission is to promote health equity through increasing access to evidence-based trauma treatment while utilizing insurance benefits so that this care is both high quality and affordable to more people. We honor that trauma impacts highly sensitive people in a different way and that high sensitivity is a quality that promotes empathy and creativity and can also put you at higher risk of social exhaustion and burn out. You will never be told "you're being too sensitive" here in this space, instead have your emotions will be validated and honored.
15 Years Experience
Online in Bellingham, WA (Online Only)
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Ryan Shannon
Counselor/Therapist, LMHCA, MA, MS
If you are highly sensitive, everyday experiences may affect you more intensely than they seem to affect others. Noise, crowds, conflict, strong emotions, busy environments, or other people’s moods can leave you feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, or needing more time to recover.
In therapy, we can distinguish between situations you would like to become more comfortable with and sensitivities that may remain part of who you are. For some triggers, gradual exposure and emotional regulation can help you build tolerance and feel less controlled by distress. For others, the goal may be acceptance, stronger boundaries, thoughtful planning, and learning how to care for yourself in overstimulating environments.
My goal is not to make you less sensitive. It is to help you understand your needs, respond to overwhelm more effectively, and create a life that honors your sensitivity without allowing it to unnecessarily limit you.
1 Years Experience
Online in Bellingham, WA (Online Only)
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Lisa Calderwood / New Dawn Counseling, LLC
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, LICSW
I work with this population by helping them to understand that it is not a mental illness to be highly sensitive and work with you to get to the root of some of why you respond in the ways you do and how to manage better using DBT skills among other modalities depending on your comfort level.
26 Years Experience
Online in Bellingham, WA (Online Only)
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Melanie Carey
Counselor/Therapist, LMHCA
Being a highly sensitive person often means experiencing the world with greater depth — emotionally, physically, and intuitively. You may notice subtle shifts in tone, energy, or environment that others miss, and you may process experiences more deeply and intensely than those around you.
While sensitivity can be a profound strength, it can also feel overwhelming in a fast-paced or emotionally demanding world. Many highly sensitive clients come to therapy feeling overstimulated, anxious, emotionally exhausted, or unsure how to stay grounded without shutting down their natural depth of feeling and perception.
In therapy, we work to understand sensitivity not as something to fix, but as an important way your nervous system and inner world are organized. From a trauma-informed and psychodynamic perspective, we explore how early experiences, relational dynamics, and nervous system patterns may have shaped how your sensitivity is expressed — including tendencies toward over-adaptation, people-pleasing, or emotional overload.
Using Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy, we gently turn toward the “felt sense” — the subtle, embodied awareness that is often especially rich in highly sensitive individuals. This helps you learn how to stay connected to your inner experience without becoming flooded by it, and how to differentiate between what is yours, what is relational, and what is environmental.
The goal of this work is not to reduce your sensitivity, but to support you in living with it in a way that feels more resourced, regulated, and aligned. This often includes building stronger internal boundaries, increasing nervous system capacity, and developing greater trust in your inner signals.
Many highly sensitive clients also reconnect with creativity, intuition, and a deeper sense of meaning as they learn to work with — rather than against — their sensitivity.
This approach is especially supportive for creatives, deep feelers, and those who have often felt “too much” or “too sensitive” in relationships, work, or family systems.
2 Years Experience
Online in Bellingham, WA (Online Only)
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Clare Campbell
Psychologist, Ph.D.
As a clinical psychologist with over a decade of experience, I provide intensive psychotherapy for individuals navigating anxiety and the emotional toll of persistent stress. I offer telehealth sessions to clients across the United States, as well as in-person appointments in Darien, Connecticut. My approach is highly individualized, grounded in the belief that meaningful change arises through a deeper understanding of one’s emotional life in the present moment. Together, we will work to uncover and shift long-standing patterns that may be interfering with your well-being, relationships, or sense of self. I aim to bring both compassion and challenge to our work—meeting you with respect, curiosity, and acceptance, while also encouraging growth toward a more authentic and connected version of yourself.
12 Years Experience
Online in Bellingham, WA
Highly Sensitive Person therapists in Bellingham, WA Statistics
Highly Sensitive Person therapists in Bellingham, WA average 16 years of experience and charge around $195 per session. 100% offer online sessions. The top treatment approaches are Person-Centered Therapy (Rogerian) (51%), Somatic Therapy (51%), and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) (46%).
Average years in practice
16 Years Experience
Average cost per session
$195
Accept insurance
46%
Offer sliding scale
46%
Gender ID
| 67% |
Female |
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| 24% |
Male |
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| 7% |
Non-Binary |
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| 2% |
Gender Fluid |
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Session Type
| 62% |
Online Only |
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| 38% |
In Person and Online |
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Top Treatment Approaches
| 51% | Person-Centered Therapy (Rogerian) |
| 51% | Somatic Therapy |
| 46% | Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) |
| 46% | Existential / Humanistic Therapy |
| 43% | Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) |
| 41% | Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) |
| 38% | Psychodynamic Therapy |
Ages Served
| 100% | Adult |
| 70% | Young Adult |
| 54% | Senior |
| 41% | Teen |
| 19% | Children |
Client Focus
| 68% | Women |
| 57% | LGBTQ+ |
| 38% | Persons with Disabilities |
| 35% | Men |
| 32% | Military / Veterans |