Therapy for Highly Sensitive People & Neurodivergence
Trauma-informed, deeply personalized therapy for highly sensitive and neurodivergent adults in California
Sensitivity is your greatest strength.
Highly sensitive people (HSPs) experience the world with depth, intuition, and emotional attunement. You may notice subtle changes in mood, tone, or environment. You feel deeply. You think reflectively. You may also feel easily overwhelmed, self-critical, or emotionally exhausted.
This is a finely tuned nervous system that deserves thoughtful, attuned care.
How sensitivity and trauma intersect
When highly sensitive people grow up in environments that lacked emotional safety, their nervous systems often learn to stay on alert.
You may experience:
Emotional overwhelm
Chronic self-doubt
Difficulty trusting yourself
Burnout or shutdown
Trouble advocating for your needs
Therapy supports you in restoring safety, clarity, and grounded confidence, without pushing or forcing your nervous system beyond its capacity.
A bespoke approach for all nervous systems
The Listening Garden psychotherapy offers bespoke trauma-informed therapy for highly sensitive adults in California.
Your therapy is shaped around:
Your nervous system’s rhythms
Your emotional language
Your history and relationships
Your pace and values
Your therapy is crafted around you.
Sensitivity is strength.
Highly sensitive people (often referred to as HSPs) experience the world with depth, awareness, and emotional attunement. This sensitivity reflects a finely tuned nervous system that notices subtle shifts in mood, environment, and relationships.
If you’re highly sensitive, you may feel emotions deeply, need more time to process experiences, or become easily overwhelmed in fast-paced or overstimulating environments. Sensitivity brings insight, creativity, and empathy, but when paired with past experiences that lacked emotional safety, it can also lead to self-doubt, burnout, or emotional shutdown.
Therapy for highly sensitive people often needs to feel different. Work that moves too quickly or relies on rigid structure can unintentionally overwhelm a sensitive nervous system.
In our work together, therapy is shaped around your sensitivity rather than asking you to work against it. We move at a steady, attuned pace, prioritize safety and nervous-system regulation, and honor your emotional and intuitive language. Insight is gently integrated into daily life in ways that feel grounded, empowering, and sustainable.
Here, sensitivity is cultivated as a source of clarity, agency, and inner strength.
Highly Sensitive or Neurodivergent? You May Be Wondering.
Many of the people who find their way to this page have spent years feeling "too much" for the world around them. Perhaps you've been told you're overly sensitive, easily overwhelmed, intensely emotional, deeply empathetic, or affected by things that don't seem to bother other people.
For some people, these experiences align with the Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) trait. For others, they may be connected to neurodivergence, including ADHD, autism, giftedness, or other ways of experiencing and processing the world.
There can be meaningful overlap between high sensitivity and neurodivergence. Many individuals experience sensory overwhelm, emotional intensity, deep empathy, strong pattern recognition, difficulty filtering stimulation, a rich inner world, feeling different from others, and burnout from constantly adapting to their environment.
While high sensitivity is not a clinical diagnosis, understanding how your nervous system works can be an important part of healing and self-acceptance. In our work together, we don't need to fit you neatly into a box. Instead, we'll explore your unique experience with curiosity and compassion, helping you better understand your needs, strengths, relationships, and patterns so you can move through life with greater ease and self-trust.
Meet me in The Listening Garden.
You deserve therapy that honors your depth.