Polish your intuition — and let it shine.
Therapy for the empath or HSP who is chronically overstimulated by their environment. Learn to transform heightened emotional and sensory experiences into pathways to insight, resilience, and personal growth.
The highly sensitive person is often an empathic individual who senses what others are feeling on an energetic, intuitive and somatic level. This can make it difficult to:
In the absence of a healthy degree of differentiation, the empath or highly sensitive person is likely to feel emotionally flooded and overstimulated by the world around them.
Unhealthy coping habits such as:
are short term solutions to a central nervous system that is suffering from chronic hyperarousal and disregulation.
Naturally attuned to their environment, an empath feels more — living with heightened sensitivity and an often overwhelming inner experience.
It’s understandable to want to turn down the noise, especially for empathic citydwellers in San Francisco and Los Angeles — urban environments where it is easy to feel constantly overstimulated by the hum of the city without any opportunity to return to baseline.
If you’re sensitive, intuitive, and have found yourself relying on substances to cope, my addiction recovery program is designed to honor your depth while supporting sustainable healing.
Incorporating elements of mindfulness, acceptance and change, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) can be a powerful and effective treatment for self destructive behaviors arising from challenges with impulse control.
Empaths and highly sensitive people (HSP) share a deep responsiveness to energy, emotion, and environment. All empaths are highly sensitive people, but not all HSP are empaths.
HSP may notice and feel affected by subtle shifts and emotional cues, while the empath actually absorbs and carries others’ feelings in their own body.
Empaths tend to be intuitive and tuned in to the transpersonal — recognizing this is critical to understanding your sensitivity is a strength.
You may be an empath if you leave crowded places feeling drained, pick up on unspoken emotions, or sometimes struggle to know where your feelings end and others’ begin.
If you relate to emotional intensity, intuition, or frequent overwhelm in stimulating environments, you may identify as an HSP, an empath, or both.
An empath therapist can help you clarify your experience, strengthen your boundaries, and honor your unique gifts.
Exploring the Dialectic between Acceptance and Change
Insight gained in therapy for empaths brings a new depth of awareness that is the first step in a dialectic between acceptance and change in DBT therapy.
Using mindfulness techniques to increase access to your own inner wisdom can help you:
The ability to self-regulate and set healthy boundaries are two of the ways to improve how you relate to the world that can have lasting impact on the quality of your life and personal relationships.
The goal of therapy for empaths is to find that critical balance between finding acceptance and creating change by learning to:
Like the sound of a precisely tuned instrument practiced with skill in just the right environment, the gifts of the empath and HSP can be exquisite.
Sentient instruments that offer a wide range of information, your feelings are incredibly valuable indicators of the conditions that enable all living beings to feel safe and thrive.
To the empath or highly sensitive person, it can feel like you are constantly experiencing the world in high definition with the volume on max. Whether empathic by nature or sensitized by trauma, there are times when your body may feel like a tuning fork resonating with the energy around you.
Your role is invaluable.
Without safety in your external and internal environment, a heightened experience of the world can lead to flooding:
Not to mention the litany of physical ailments that arise from a chronically overstimulated central nervous system.
Your gift needs special care for you, your work and your relationships to thrive.
Join me in learning to transform your vulnerabilities into your most valuable assets.
Open the Intuitive Channel without Flooding Your Senses
I specialize in therapy for empaths and artists, writers and thinkers, scientists, innovators and dreamers—creative people who are deeply affected by the world and whose sensitivities are the source of both their virtue and their vice.
Using a direct manner tempered by gentle loving kindness, I can show you how your sensitivity can become your greatest strength.
It is my privilege to walk this path with you, embracing the shadows that allow your light to shine bright. You deserve to feel things deeply without being deeply shaken. The world deserves your gifts.
I offer online therapy for empaths and HSP throughout California — from the Bay Area to Santa Cruz, Santa Barbara and Los Angeles . If you are an empath in San Francisco who prefers in person sessions, come see me for therapy in Marin where we can meet face-to-face without a screen.
