Are you an Empath, Highly Sensitive Person, or Intuitive?
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Therapy for empaths, hsp and intuitives offers support that is centered around your unique ways of being in the world. You don’t have to identify with any labels to see yourself in these ways of being. As someone with a highly attuned and sensitive nervous system, you deserve support that understands and validates your needs.
You may be an empath if:
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You feel and absorb everything around you within your own body. This may other people’s feelings, the energy of nature, the quality of events going on in the world
When others are having a hard time, you feel anxious and compelled to help
You often feel overwhelmed, drained, or used by your relationships and don’t understand why
Sometimes you feel emotions that don’t feel like yours, and you don’t know who they belong to
Signs you may be a highly sensitive person (hsp):
Others described you as “sensitive” throughout your life
Small talk tends to feel draining, and you long for space to explore deeper thoughts
Crowds and larger gatherings can feel overwhelming
You notice details and subtleties that others don’t pick up on
You might be an intuitive if:
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It seems as if you often just know things, without knowing how or even choosing to know
You are aware of and connected to energy within and around you and others. However, you aren’t sure how to create boundaries around this
In conversations, you find yourself discovering things about the other person that you specifically don’t understand how you know
You resonate with psychic practices and belief systems
Being an empath, hsp, or intuitive comes with tremendous gifts and painful shadows. Left unhealed the shadow areas can take over your life, further making your unique and sacred gifts into burdens.
Signs that your empathic, sensitive, or intuitive qualities are out of balance:
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✦ Experiencing other’s feelings as if they were yours
✦ Difficulty identifying, centering, and upholding your own needs
✦ A pattern of putting others first, even at the cost of your own self
✦ Overwhelm, depletion, and exhaustion
✦ Collapsing, shutting down, and removing yourself from the world to “protect your peace”
✦ Repeatedly finding yourself in harmful, toxic, or abusive relational patterns (with friends, family, and lovers)
✦ Anxiety
✦ Feeling stuck around decision making
✦ Not trusting your own knowing
✦ Trying to be “less sensitive” and pushing yourself to do things in ways that don’t work for you
✦ Not being able to “turn off” or have a choice around when, how, and where you bring your gifts forward to the world
When you don’t attend to your needs as an empath, hsp, or intuitive, you may feel a sense of resentment, despair, negative self-talk, depletion, and burn out. Because of this, you may even move into deep isolation. Or you may double down and try harder to heal, please, or uplift everyone around you so that they feel better instead.
Healing is both self and community care
If you recognize yourself in any of these patterns or descriptions – you are not alone. Many people who have these gifts experience high levels of stress, anxiety, confusion, and hopelessness. They may experience repetitive toxic relationship patterns without knowing why. They may isolate and pull back from the world. As well as embody patterns of avoidance as a way to “protect their peace”.
As a therapist who specializes in empaths, hsp, and empaths – I know that your way of experiencing the world is sacred, and needed. You deserve the love you give others. Your energy boundaries need extra care, support, and nourishment. And you deserve nourishing, mutually growthful relationships and community. It is essential to find pathways to care for your own needs, while additionally building capacity to stay in relationship to others, community, and the world. Healing is both connecting to the self, and to others.
How can I heal as an empath, highly sensitive person, or intuitive?
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Healing as an empath, HSP, or intuitive is a conscious, intentional centering in your needs, gifts, and boundaries. A returning to care and nourishment of the sacred space of you. As well as bringing your self and your gifts back into community to be shared and honored. Healing brings the freedom you need to truly embody your gifts and bring them in the world safely. Without sacrifice or colapse.
As an empath, intuitive, and highly sensitive therapist – I would be honored to travel beside you.
Through our work together, my clients share:
An embodied understanding of their own feelings as different from the feelings of others
Greater ease in identifying and meeting their own needs
Ability to tend to and care for their energy boundaries
A renewed sense of energy and aliveness
Feeling mutually uplifted, joyful, and supported in their relationships
Deeper connection to community and community care
An understanding and increased ability to engage in unlearning internalized white supremacy and capitalistic value systems
Clarity around path and purpose
A renewed sense of trust in their spirituality and inner knowing
More nourished sense of embodiment
An appreciation and gratitude for their empathic skills, sensitivity, and intuition
A sense of joy that can hold them through their journeys
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I offer a variety of services that can support you on your journey:
For solo journeyers, we will work together to build a sense of safety, connection, and embodiment so you may reclaim your joy, self-love, aliveness, and community.
For partners, I offer couples therapy. We will create a path of more clear and aligned communication. You’ll learn practices to deepen intimacy with each other and your own selves.
For groups, I offer Soul Sanctuary: LGBTQ Empaths. We will come together to explore how to incorporate creativity, spirituality, and healing on the path of activism.
I specialize in supporting LGBQA and TGNC folx. I also offer a variety of therapy modalities, including: spiritual therapy, somatic therapy, expressive arts therapy, and ecotherapy
