Therapy for Highly Sensitive Women & Emotional Overwhelm
Online Therapy Across British Columbia
What Is Sensitivity?
Sensitivity, as I use the term here, refers to strong perception and emotional awareness. This comes from seeing clearly, feeling deeply, and noticing what others often miss. Many of the women I work with are perceptive, intuitive, reflective, and often carrying more than they show.
You Might Resonate With This Work If…
You may have been overly attuned to what others wanted from you and shaped yourself around expectations.
You learned how to adapt, accommodate, and fit.
Over time, you may have started to feel like you were living someone else’s life.
And then something cracked.
Maybe it was burnout.
Maybe it was grief.
Maybe simply a realization you couldn’t unsee anymore.
You can’t go back, but you don’t yet know how to move forward.
And what you’re looking for isn’t another identity to explain yourself through.
You don’t want a framework that tells you you’re fragile.
You don’t want a label that becomes a box.
You want freedom.
You want agency.
You want to come home to yourself.
Why Emotional Overwhelm Happens
Depth becomes difficult when the world asks you to flatten yourself, when you are pressured to override your intuition, suppress your perception, or carry emotional roles and expectations that were never meant for you. Many people experience this as emotional overwhelm, exhaustion, or feeling as though they don’t belong or aren’t understood.
Sensitivity becomes overwhelming not because something is wrong with you, but because your inner ground has not yet had the chance to become steady, structured, or supported from within. Without an internal anchor, the sensitive system can become porous, reactive, or easily pulled by what is happening around it.
As we strengthen your inner steadiness, your capacity to hold all of life, the pain, the joy, and the beauty, naturally expands. Therapy is not about protecting you from the world, rather, it is about helping you become steady within it.
Where Sensitivity Comes From
To my knowledge, there is no single agreed-upon explanation for why some people are more sensitive than others. Sensitivity appears to be shaped by a mixture of innate temperament, early relational experiences, physiological factors, and the layers we carry from our lineage. Everything that touches a human life from conception to early development can influence how attuned, perceptive, or reactive a system becomes. Some of us arrive with a naturally open, receptive awareness. Others learn heightened perceptiveness through early environments. Most of the time, it is both. And part of it remains mysterious, something we cannot fully reduce to genetics or experience alone.
Possible influences include:
• prenatal and birth experiences
• early relational patterns and attachment
• temperament and innate attunement
• intergenerational and ancestral layers
• epigenetic or physiological factors
• environmental or developmental stressors
• the unexplainable or mysterious aspects of who we arrive here as
How Therapy Supports Perceptive Sensitivity
Our work together focuses on helping you become less permeable, more discerning, and more anchored in yourself. We work toward a sensitivity that is no longer porous, reactive, or easily shaken, but rooted, coherent, and sovereign.
This looks like:
• becoming anchored in your own perception
• strengthening the inner structure that can hold your depth
• trusting what you feel without being ruled by it
• separating your emotions from what you have absorbed
• staying steady in misalignment without collapsing into it
• forming a sense of self that is opaque instead of absorbent
• reclaiming the quiet authority of your inner knowing
My approach integrates emotional processing, developmental understanding, intuitive insight, and grounded, reality-based clarity.
From Sensitivity to Sovereignty
As your inner footing strengthens, you may begin to notice shifts.
• taking on less of what is not yours
• feeling steadier in the face of misalignment
• trusting your perceptions without second guessing
• feeling less pulled by others expectations
• becoming clearer about your own edges and needs
• responding with intention rather than habit
The more we learn how to truly steward our sensitivity, the less we feel at the whim of the world around us. Our bodies know how to operate with this clarity, we often simply need to remember our way back to these knowings.
You can read more of our writing on sensitivity here:
Blog: On Sensitivity
If this resonates, and you’re ready to explore what support looks like for you, I offer a free 20-minute consultation to talk through where you are and what change could look like.