Highly Sensitive Person therapists in Olympia, Washington WA
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Tara Murphy
Psychologist, Psy.D.
As a highly sensitive person myself, I understand how sensitivity can feel both overwhelming and deeply valuable. I use IFS, mindfulness, and somatic approaches to help clients manage overstimulation and shame while highlighting the strengths of empathy and awareness. Narrative and existential therapies further support meaning-making. My diagnostic training ensures accurate distinction between sensitivity, trauma, and neurodivergence, while I also use a sensory diet approach to help with regulation and self care.
29 Years Experience
Online in Olympia, WA Washington (Online Only)
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Bobby Newell
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, SEP
I specialize in working with highly sensitive individuals who tend to feel things deeply, think deeply, and often become overwhelmed by the intensity of their internal and external experiences. Being highly sensitive is not a weakness—it’s a trait that, when understood, can become a strength. Together, we focus on helping you regulate overstimulation, set boundaries without guilt, and navigate relationships and environments in a way that feels more sustainable. My approach combines practical tools with mind-body awareness, supporting you in feeling more grounded, confident, and able to move through life without constant overwhelm.
27 Years Experience
Online in Olympia, WA Washington
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Debra Zand
Psychologist, Ph.D.
Being highly sensitive is not a flaw. It is your superpower. High sensitivity is a profound, inborn trait—not a clinical disorder. I will never try to change your sensitive nature; but instead will help you honor it. Highly sensitive people possess incredible empathy, deep intuition, and creative insight. I provide tailored therapy to help you thrive as your authentic, sensitive self. navigate overstimulation, set healthy boundaries, and transform emotional overwhelm into deep self-compassion.
26 Years Experience
Online in Olympia, WA Washington
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San Francisco Counseling Collective
Licensed Professional Counselor, LPCC, LMFT, LCSW
At San Francisco Counseling Collective ("SFCC"), we support highly sensitive individuals in understanding sensory and emotional depth as a strength, while building strategies for regulation, boundary-setting, and self-care in overstimulating contexts.
9 Years Experience
Online in Olympia, WA Washington
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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 Olympia, WA Washington (Online Only)
Highly Sensitive Person therapists in Olympia, Washington Statistics
Highly Sensitive Person therapists in Olympia, Washington average 17 years of experience and charge around $192 per session. 100% offer online sessions. The top treatment approaches are Somatic Therapy (54%), Person-Centered Therapy (Rogerian) (51%), and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) (51%).
Average years in practice
17 Years Experience
Average cost per session
$192
Accept insurance
49%
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
| 60% |
Online Only |
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| 40% |
In Person and Online |
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Top Treatment Approaches
| 54% | Somatic Therapy |
| 51% | Person-Centered Therapy (Rogerian) |
| 51% | Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) |
| 49% | Existential / Humanistic Therapy |
| 43% | Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) |
| 40% | Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) |
| 37% | Psychodynamic Therapy |
Ages Served
| 100% | Adult |
| 71% | Young Adult |
| 60% | Senior |
| 43% | Teen |
| 23% | Children |
Client Focus
| 63% | Women |
| 54% | LGBTQ+ |
| 34% | Persons with Disabilities |
| 34% | Men |
| 31% | Jewish |