Highly Sensitive Person Coaching
Feeling swamped by intense emotions, your surroundings, or interpersonal dynamics might indicate you are a highly sensitive person (HSP). HSPs possess a more reactive nervous system, deeply processing all sensory input. As an HSP, I resonate with our special requirements and virtues. Coaching can offer you strategies to handle stress, affirm your sensitivity, and prosper across all facets of life. Essential for HSPs is learning to manage emotional overwhelm, establish firm boundaries to protect energy levels, and nurture self-compassion to prevent burnout.
As a highly sensitive person myself, I know very well how life can be stressful and cause anxiety and relationship challenges. I have a high sensitivity to certain foods that affects my dietary choices and my quality of life. From a very young age, I would feel nauseous whenever I tasted, smelled, or saw certain foods. For instance, I remember one day when my mother cooked venison. The smell was so repulsive to me that I had to spend the rest of my day outside playing in the backyard until the smell vanished from the house. Therefore, I became a vegetarian, not by choice, but by necessity.
I am affected by weather and season changes, as well as the emotions of others. For instance, every autumn, I experience seasonal affective disorder, which makes me feel depressed and lethargic. However, I have learned to cope with this condition by using light therapy, exercising regularly, and taking vitamin D supplements. I am also influenced by the mood of people around me, which can affect my emotions and energy. For example, I used to work in a fast-paced and high-pressure environment, where I often felt the stress and negativity of my colleagues and clients. This had a negative impact on my mental health and well-being, but I tried to cope with it by practicing mindfulness, setting boundaries, and seeking support from my friends and family. Therefore, being highly sensitive does not stop me from fulfilling my personal and professional goals. The key is to know myself and find ways to cope with my challenges.
My coaching is designed to help you achieve what you want, whether it is more confidence, more balance, more meaning, or more impact. I collaborate with you to understand your needs and goals, and customize my coaching accordingly. I apply various tools and techniques to help you gain clarity, focus, confidence, and resilience. I also offer you feedback, accountability, and encouragement along the way.
If you are interested in highly sensitive person coaching, please contact me for a free consultation. I would love to hear from you and see how I can help you. Together, we can make your highly sensitive life a rewarding and enriching adventure.
What is a Highly Sensitive Person?
A highly sensitive person is a neurodivergent individual who is thought to have an increased or deeper central nervous system sensitivity to physical, emotional, or social stimuli.
Some refer to this as having sensory processing sensitivity, or SPS for short. While highly sensitive people are sometimes negatively described as being “too sensitive,” it is a personality trait that brings both strengths and challenges.
The term highly sensitive person was first coined by psychologists Elaine Aron and Arthur Aron in the mid-1990s. Elaine Aron published her book, “The Highly Sensitive Person,” in 1996, and interest in the concept has continued to grow since then.
How do you know if you are a highly sensitive person? If you react strongly to criticism, become physically and emotionally overstimulated more easily than others do, and have a rich inner life, you may score highly in sensory processing sensitivity. You may also feel as if you have a higher capacity for empathy and are quite sensitive to others’ moods. The Arons also developed a highly sensitive person test, or a personality questionnaire to help people identify themselves as HSPs. It is known as Aron’s Highly Sensitive Persons Scale (HSPS).
How common are HSPs? Highly sensitive people are thought to make up roughly 15 to 20% of the general population. It is less common to be a highly sensitive person, and society tends to be built around people who notice a little less and are affected a little less deeply. Highly sensitive people may benefit from finding ways to cope with the stresses they often face. This is true for those who recognize themselves as highly sensitive as well as those who have a loved one who is more sensitive than the average person.
What causes high sensitivity? What makes a person highly sensitive likely depends on a variety of factors such as evolution, environment, genetics, and early childhood experiences.
How Can Highly Sensitive Person Coaching
Help You?
Highly sensitive person coaching can help you in many ways, such as:
Understanding and accepting your highly sensitive personality, and how it affects your personal and professional life
Discovering and embracing your strengths, passions, and values, and how to use them to create a fulfilling and meaningful life
Developing and achieving your goals, dreams, and aspirations, in a way that suits your personality and preferences
Finding and creating balance, harmony, and well-being in your life, by managing your energy, setting boundaries, and practicing self-care
Improving your communication, relationships, and social skills, by learning how to express yourself, connect with others, and handle conflicts effectively
Overcoming your challenges, fears, and limiting beliefs, by building your confidence, resilience, and growth mindset
Thriving in your career, business, or leadership role, by finding your niche, leveraging your talents, and making an impact
What Can You Expect from Highly Sensitive
Person Coaching?
Highly sensitive person coaching is a collaborative and personalized process that involves:
- A free consultation, where we get to know each other, discuss your needs and goals, and see if we are a good fit
- A coaching agreement, where we establish the terms and conditions of our coaching relationship, such as the duration, frequency, and fees of the sessions
- A coaching assessment, where we explore your personality, strengths, values, and vision, and identify your current situation, challenges, and opportunities.
- A coaching plan, where we set your specific, measured, evidence, responsibility, time-bound, inspirational, and emotional (SMERTIE) goals, and outline the actions and strategies that will help you achieve them
- Coaching sessions, where we meet regularly (usually once a week or every two weeks) via phone, video call, or in person, and work on your goals, actions, and strategies, as well as review your progress, feedback, and results
- Coaching support, where I provide you with additional resources, tools, and exercises that will enhance your learning and growth, and where you can contact me via email or text between sessions for any questions, concerns, or updates
- Coaching evaluation, where we measure and celebrate your outcomes, achievements, and learnings, and where we decide on the next steps for your continued success and satisfaction
Are You Ready for Highly Sensitive
Person Coaching?
If you are ready to take charge of your highly sensitive life, and create a happy and fulfilling life that honors your true self, then highly sensitive person coaching may be for you. To find out more, please contact me for a free consultation. I would love to hear from you and see how I can help you. Together, we can make your highly sensitive life a rewarding and enriching adventure.
