Highly Sensitive Person therapists in Bellingham, WA
Browse Highly Sensitive Person therapists in Bellingham, Washington. Compare credentials, specialties and therapeutic approach. Contact a therapist to learn more.
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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)
HSP
Alignwell Modern Therapy
Counselor/Therapist
We specialize in working with highly sensitive individuals who experience emotions and environments deeply. Therapy focuses on understanding your sensitivity as a strength while helping you manage overwhelm, set boundaries, and care for your nervous system. We get it, as many of us in the practice identify as HSP's ourselves!
20 Years Experience
Online in Bellingham, WA
HSP
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)
HSP
Amanda Etienne
Psychologist, Psy.D
I don't think sensitivity is a flaw to manage away - I think it's one of the richest parts of being human, and often the exact thing that makes deep connection possible. If you were told growing up that you were too sensitive or too much, we work on understanding that your sensitivity was never the problem. The environment around it was.
3 Years Experience
Online in Bellingham, WA (Online Only)
HSP
Dr. Jessica De Leon
Psychologist, Psy.D.
Being highly sensitive can mean experiencing emotions, relationships, environments, and sensory experiences with greater depth and intensity. Rather than viewing sensitivity as something that needs to be "fixed," therapy can help you understand your sensitivity, establish healthy boundaries, manage overwhelm, and recognize the strengths that can come with being deeply perceptive and attuned.
6 Years Experience
Online in Bellingham, WA (Online Only)
Highly Sensitive Person therapists in Bellingham, WA Statistics
Highly Sensitive Person therapists in Bellingham, WA average 15 years of experience and charge around $186 per session. 100% offer online sessions. The top treatment approaches are Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) (52%), Person-Centered Therapy (Rogerian) (50%), and Existential / Humanistic Therapy (48%).
Average years in practice
15 Years Experience
Average cost per session
$186
Accept insurance
50%
Offer sliding scale
46%
Gender ID
| 65% |
Female |
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| 24% |
Male |
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| 7% |
Non-Binary |
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| 4% |
Gender Fluid |
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Session Type
| 65% |
Online Only |
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| 35% |
In Person and Online |
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Top Treatment Approaches
| 52% | Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) |
| 50% | Person-Centered Therapy (Rogerian) |
| 48% | Existential / Humanistic Therapy |
| 46% | Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) |
| 41% | Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) |
| 41% | Psychodynamic Therapy |
| 41% | Somatic Therapy |
Ages Served
| 100% | Adult |
| 80% | Young Adult |
| 57% | Senior |
| 39% | Teen |
| 17% | Children |
Client Focus
| 72% | Women |
| 65% | LGBTQ+ |
| 46% | Men |
| 37% | Military / Veterans |
| 37% | Persons with Disabilities |