Highly Sensitive Persons

I specialize in helping highly sensitive and ambitious adults in their twenties and thirties and adolescents find relief from anxiety, overthinking, and self-doubt. Through Highly Sensitive Person Therapy you can create more balance, build greater confidence, develop self-compassion, and experience inner-peace.

Highly Sensitive Persons (HSPs) Therapy in New York

If you've ever been labeled “too sensitive or shy” Highly Sensitive Person Therapy may be right for you.

Or maybe you've heard some of the following messages:

• "grow thicker skin"
• "lighten up"
• "stop overthinking"
• "toughen up"
• "let things go"
• "stop over-analyzing"
• "you're being dramatic or too emotional"
• "stop crying"
• "you're taking it too personally"
• "don't let it get to you so much:

These messages can lead you to doubt yourself and start believing something is truly wrong with you that needs fixing.

The truth is, there is nothing wrong with you! You may in fact be among the 15-20% of the population with the highly sensitive personality trait.

Therapy for Highly Sensitive Persons

How do I know if I am a highly sensitive person?

Highly Sensitive Persons make up about 15-20% of the population. If you're unsure if this is you, begin by taking this quiz https://hsperson.com/test/highly-sensitive-test/ and keep reading on to learn more.

Highly Sensitive People have a rich inner life and deep empathy for others. With this trait, you easily attune and absorb the feelings and energies of those around you.

As a highly sensitive person, you experience your emotions deeply, the good ones and the harder ones. It likely takes you longer to move through these strong feelings. With a rich inner life and keen awareness of your environment, you notice more details around you, and spend more time considering social cues like people’s facial expressions, tones of voice, and moods. With a sensitive nervous system, you likely become easily overstimulated and require more quiet and downtime than others. You may find yourself easily startled and made uncomfortable by loud noises, strong smells, crowds, or bright lights. Perhaps the tags on your clothing and the seams on your socks feel unbearable. As a highly sensitive person, you most likely hate being the center of attention, and the idea of surprises, even positive ones are unnerving.  It can be exhausting and overwhelming to feel so porous to the world, like a sponge to everything and everyone around you.

Being a highly sensitive person while living in our fast-paced and not-so-sensitive world can be challenging and at times exhausting.

With greater value placed on extroversion, instant gratification, and the pressure to respond to texts and emails immediately, a highly sensitive person is often left feeling over-stimulated, drained, and overwhelmed.

Through the support of a knowledgeable HSP therapist, as a highly sensitive person, you will benefit from the intentional practices of honoring your boundaries and embracing your unique and special strengths.

Strengths of a highly sensitive person include (but are not limited to the following):

• Deeply intuitive and perceptive^​
• Conscientious
• Compassionate and kind
• A great listener, often the friend and family member people turn to the most
• Empathetic and attuned to those around you
• Reflective and thoughtful, thinking before acting or making decisions
• Keen awareness of the subtleties in your environment
• Rich inner-life, often feel like an "old soul" from a young age
• Deeply moved by the arts, nature, and beauty

Having a sensitive nervous system is something you are born with and is completely normal. Being highly sensitivity is not a mental illness and is not something to overcome, but rather a gift to be celebrated!

What type of therapy is best for a highly sensitive person?

Highly Sensitive Persons benefit greatly from psychotherapy. In fact, research shows that highly sensitive persons will respond more than others to positive interventions such as psychotherapy. Therefore, highly sensitive person will often find they experience quicker progress in therapy than most. An Integrative approach to psychotherapy is especially helpful for highly sensitive persons. Relational therapy, along with psychoeducation (learning about your trait), self-compassion, and mind-body approaches are utilized to deepen our work and tend to your sensitive nervous system.

Through Therapy for Highly Sensitive Persons in NYC you can:

• Explore your sensitivity with curiosity and kindness. Through a compassionate and curious therapeutic approach, you’ll better understand your unique trait, the ways it impacts you, and how being highly sensitive has helped shape your life.
• Unpack messages you received about yourself and your sensitivity. Learn to process and heal from any painful experiences and wounding. Through meaningful self-exploration we’ll explore your past and shift any unhelpful inner narratives regarding your sensitivity.
• Build upon your unique strengths and simultaneously develop greater self-compassion toward all parts of yourself.
• Develop effective coping strategies to manage over-stimulation and stress. Learn to tend to your sensitive nervous system and experience greater calm and joy.
• Improve your emotional regulation skills. Learn to better manage and regulate intense feelings and mood fluctuations as they arise.

My Approach as a NYC HSP Therapist

Therapy for Highly Sensitive Persons is a compassionate space that honors your sensitivity and unique lived experience. Liz will support you in understanding your sensitivity and embracing your whole self, sensitivity, and all.

Liz Yarock Psychotherapy will help you recognize the extraordinary value inherent in sensitivity, embrace your strengths, and better cope with all of life's stressors.

As someone who personally understands and deeply respects high sensitivity, Liz recognizes the unique challenges that HSPs face and the strength it takes to explore one's sensitivity. She has extensive experience working with highly sensitive adults and adolescents as they cope with life’s demands both large and small. Liz is passionate about the transformative power of therapy and helping foster meaningful insight, healing, and lasting growth.

Take The First Steps Toward Embracing Your Sensitivity

If you’re tired of feeling overwhelmed and misunderstood, it’s time to take the next step. Liz Yarock is here to help you navigate your journey with compassion and expertise. Contact us today to start your path towards a balanced, confident, and peaceful life. Schedule your consultation now and discover how honoring your sensitivity can transform your life.

1. Schedule your free consultation with me here so I can get to know your story.
2. Discover more about Highly Sensitive People and women's issues through my blogs. 
3. Develop coping strategies to help you manage stress, over-stimulation and more.

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At Liz Yarock Psychotherapy, my intention is to provide you with meaningful support through a compassionate and collaborative approach. Whether you're seeking anxiety counseling, support through life transitions, relationship therapy, or therapy for women's issues, I offer integrative and evidence-based psychotherapy. I do not believe in a "one size fits all" framework of therapy. Therapy is tailored specifically to you, offering a personalized approach.