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Online Therapy for Stress & Anxiety
Therapy for Highly Sensitive People with Anxiety
Because your brain deserves a break from running in overdrive
If you’re a highly sensitive person (HSP), anxiety probably feels like an uninvited houseguest who refuses to leave.
Loud noises, busy schedules, too many texts at once—you notice it all. And instead of brushing it off, your brain goes into full “Danger! Danger!” mode.
On the outside it might look like you hold it together. But on the inside, you’re running through every worst-case scenario. It’s exhausting.
Why Anxiety Hits HSPs So Hard
When you feel everything, your nervous system is basically on high alert all the time. So little things that other people can shrug off end up knocking you sideways. This isn’t you being "dramatic." It’s your sensitive system working overtime.
Ways this shows up:
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Lying awake at 3 a.m. replaying something you said at lunch two days ago
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Heart racing when your phone buzzes because you might have forgotten something important
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Wanting to cancel plans you actually want to go to because your body just says “nope”
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Worrying you annoyed someone because they used a “…” in their text
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Jumping every time there’s a loud noise
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Overthinking even good news because you’re waiting for “the catch”
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Not enjoying that good news because you're waiting for the other shoe to drop.
How Therapy Helps Highly Sensitive People
Therapy doesn’t “fix” you—it helps dial down the anxiety
Together, we’ll:
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Notice what’s really triggering your anxiety because it’s not always the obvious stuff
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Practice simple ways to calm your body and brain when you’re overwhelmed
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Sort out old family and relationship patterns that cause you stress.
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Build your confidence so you trust yourself instead of your anxious inner critic
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Put distance between you and the energy vampires
What Starts to Shift
When introverted, highly sensitive women work on anxiety in therapy, they usually notice:
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Less mind racing and mental chaos
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Feeling steady in situations that once spiked your anxiety
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Saying “no” without spiraling into guilt or people-pleasing
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Relationships that feel mutual and supportive instead of sucking you dry
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More energy, because you’re not constantly running on empty
What can anxiety look like in a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP)?
Here are some descriptions my clients have used.
See if they resonate with you...
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Always afraid something bad is going to happen
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Feeling nervous, on edge
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Thinking the worst
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Being forgetful or making simple mistakes due to nerves
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Trouble falling asleep, trouble staying asleep
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Tense muscles
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Having difficulty focusing or concentrating
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Getting a dry mouth (at the worst times)
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Mind racing, no "off" button
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Difficulty concentrating, foggy head
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Headaches
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Unable to enjoy the now, getting stuck in the past or worry about the future
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Easily startled
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Shallow breathing, heavy chest
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Shaky hands, blurry vision, ringing in ears
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Stomachache, sweating
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Can't think straight, can't make simple decisions
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Feeling like you want to crawl out of your skin
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Easily overwhelmed by things that didn't use to overwhelm me
ANXIETY SUCKS
It can rob you of your peace, leaving you feeling like
your mind will never quiet down.
Anxiety doesn't just affect the mind, it affects the body, too
which just seems plain unfair if you ask me.
When we feel stressed, anything can trigger anxiety - a change in plans, something new or different, someone's comment, a thought, a weird feeling, stuff...
Even thinking about being anxious can make you feel anxious.
It can be a viscous circle.
Once we get overwhelmed, it seems like we only see the things that go wrong,
not the things that go right.
Eventually we may just feel like everything is too much to handle so we sit and stare with brains like cotton wool and don't know what to do or how to do it.
To make matters worse, people say "Why don't you just start?"
But, we don't know how so days go by when nothing gets done and our To-Do list just continues to grow. Ahh!
Sometimes we try to make ourselves feel better by trying to control everything
(and sometimes everyone) around us.
We think if we can avoid surprises or changes in our life, we will be able
to better cope.
If it all gets to be too much, we isolate, cancel plans, leave places early,
or don't even show up.
But, if you are experiencing any of these symptoms there is HOPE!
I can help you break the conditioned worry and get you back to actually wanting to be alone with your thoughts because there won't be 10 million of them going on at once.