How Can Therapy Benefit a Highly Sensitive Person?

You're compassionate and generous, but you're also very emotional and sensitive. You're very intuitive, but you're also exhausted, overwhelmed, and constantly overthinking.

You feel like you're different compared to your family and friends. It feels like both a blessing and a curse.

There's nothing wrong with you, you're just a highly sensitive person (HSP). As an HSP, you're more sensitive to physical, emotional, and mental stimuli. You tend to feel more deeply and strongly compared to others.

As with anything in life, being a highly sensitive person comes with ups and downs. Here's how therapy can benefit a highly sensitive person.

Reduce Anxiety

A lot of stress and anxiety stems from events or experiences that took place in the past or ones that haven't occurred yet in the future. Therapy can help teach you how to live in the present moment and can help keep you grounded and help reduce your anxiety and/or stress.

A therapist will work with you to help change some of your negative thinking patterns with new and healthy ones. This can help lower some of the signs and symptoms of common mental health disorders like anxiety, depression, and stress.

Improve Relationships

As a highly sensitive person, you can feel your loved one's emotions as if they were your own. This can make building healthy relationships even harder.

Therapy can help you manage any of your stressors, help you in making healthier personal choices, and help improve your communication skills. As a highly sensitive person, therapy is a great treatment option as a way to better manage and control the heightened emotions that they experience each and every day.

Create a Better Self Perception

One of the main goals of therapy for highly sensitive people is to help improve their self-confidence and self-esteem. A lot of highly sensitive people have low self-esteem, and they try to overcompensate by setting extremely high and unrealistic standards for themselves. This can start a vicious cycle.

Therapy can help to improve the relationship you have with yourself. Working with a therapist can help you realize that you are deserving of love from yourself and others.

Overcome Perfectionism

Another trait of a highly sensitive person is their desire to be perfect. Therapy can help reframe an HSPs mindset so they can use their sensitivity to their advantage. A therapist will work with you to help you realize that no one is perfect. Everyone makes mistakes from time and time, and you can use those mistakes to help you become better in the future. Experiencing failure can actually be one of the best ways to learn.

Heal Negative Experiences

A lot of people use therapy as a way to help them cope or heal from any negative experiences from their past. This same reason is also a huge benefit to a highly sensitive person. The only difference is that a highly sensitive person working through personal trauma can feel them on a deeper level.

Therapy can help any person, especially highly sensitive people, work through and process any leftover memories and emotions that may be associated with that trauma. Working with a trained and licensed therapist is one of the best ways to overcome the trauma and move forward.

Next Steps

If you're having difficulty managing your emotions due to being a highly sensitive person, you're not alone. Therapy is a great option if you want to learn more about having better control over your emotions. Being a highly sensitive person isn't a bad thing. You can learn how to use it to your advantage.

Reach out to me today to set up a consultation for online therapy.