Helping Highly Sensitive People Thrive

I'm Marie, a psychotherapist specialising in working with highly sensitive people who are exhausted from trying to keep up with a world that wasn't designed for them.

If you're reading this, you've probably spent years pushing yourself to function at a pace your nervous system simply can't sustain. You've ignored your body's signals, forced yourself through overwhelming environments and told yourself you just need to try harder.

The result is often chronic stress, burnout and sometimes even physical symptoms like pain, migraines, digestive issues or relentless fatigue, caused by your nervous system running on overdrive for far too long.

Maybe you've tried therapy or self help tools before and found it helpful to understand yourself better, but nothing fundamentally changed. You're still exhausted. Still overwhelmed. Still wondering if you'll ever feel the ease that other people seem to have.

If this resonates with you, welcome. You’re in the right place.

My own journey

I understand this experience intimately, not just as a therapist but as someone who lived it. For years I believed there was something fundamentally wrong with me. I didn’t realise that as a highly sensitive person, living in the world was often too much for my nervous system. After years of navigating parenthood and a stressful job in a mental heath service, my stress levels were through the roof and and my body started saying no through physical symptoms that baffled doctors. I kept thinking if I could just work harder, be more organised, have better routines, I'd be able to function like everyone else. But this only made things worse.

What finally changed everything was when I discovered that the issue wasn't me needing to try harder. It was that I needed to understand and work with my highly sensitive nervous system, not against it. When I learned to actually listen to my body, regulate my nervous system and address the trauma and stress I'd been carrying, my symptoms resolved. The exhaustion lifted. I found a way to live that actually felt sustainable. And enjoyable!

This is what I want for all HSPs and this what my work now focuses on. Read on to find out more about therapy with me.