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A woman-centered holistic mental health private practice offering holistic therapy & neurofeedback brain training
160 Christian Street, Oxford, CT 06478
Connecticut, Maryland, Virginia. HIPAA. Secure Video. Convenient.
Call: 802-578-3700 or Email: connect@mindbodywelltherapy.com
Therapy for Highly Sensitive Persons created 7-26-24 ~ Written by Lucrezia Mangione, LPC, LCPC, NCC, BC-TMH, DCEP
Do you shift into overwhelm when you're overcome with overstimulation?
Are you finding yourself more anxious than you'd like to be? If you:
Being highly sensitive means that things affect you more deeply. This can impact how you experience every day living and handle the stressors that are a part of life. Learning about how being highly sensitive affects your mental health is valuable if you want to feel better.
Feeling Emotions Strongly
You feel things strongly if you're highly sensitive. Being sensitive means feeling things a lot. Good things feel amazing. Bad things can hit hard and feel awful. They can even overwhelm you. This can make you feel stressed, worried, or sad more often.
Getting Overwhelmed by Senses
Susceptible people notice things others might not. Highly sensitive people naturally process much more info from what their senses pick up on. Busy, crowded, or noisy places might make you feel too much. Those loud noises or bright lights can be too intense. It's all stimulating and can quickly shift to overstimulating. This can make you feel anxious and sometimes even avoid those places.
Being Very Empathetic
Highly sensitive people have an extra level of understanding how others feel. This is empathy. When you get how others feel without asking them. Empathy is gorgeous and it can tire you if you take on others' emotions too much. Or you might feel others' strong emotions, which can be exhausting.
Holistic therapy can be a rediscovering True North for highly
sensitive individuals, offering a path to navigate towards a better
emotional state and improved mental wellness. There are ways to feel
better, especially for those who are highly sensitive. Isn't that
comforting?
Holistic therapy for
highly sensitive person provides a soft place to land. It's a safe place
to explore your rich inner world, process how you're impacted by the
outer world, and discover a kinder way to live in the world. You explore
what it's like to be you, a highly sensitive woman, man, or person, in a
non-judgmental space. Here are some discoveries you might make:
Dealing with Deep Empathy
You feel intensely and deeply. It's great when you're elevated by music or a walk in nature. It's not so great when you listen to the news and you can't shake the upset, sadness, or shock of what you heard and saw. Learning to surf your emotions is possible instead of being swallowed by them.
Taking Care of You
Learning the art of saying no to things that stress you or don't feel right for you is essential. Letting overwhelmed and overstimulation hang out with you for too long is another step towards feeling compassion fatigued and leading to the potential for burnout. Boundaries are good to have. Learning how to claim your psycho-emotional space is a gift you can give yourself.
Connecting Your Mind to Your Body
Your thoughts, feelings, and physical health work together. You can bootstrap the link between your mind and body to cultivate your emotional health and well-being.
Coping with Stress
Most people, especially sensitive people, find
everyday life stressful. Why not discover new ways to manage stress so
you can be the boss of stress and not vice versa?
Setting Boundaries
Recognizing your limits. Establishing boundaries. These are a powerful act of self-care. It's a way to take control of your well-being, even when supporting others. Holistic therapy for highly sensitive person can help you figure what's acceptable and what's not for you. It can empower you to prioritize your well-being while still being there for others.
Reaching out for Help
You are not alone. If you’re struggling, reach
out. A licensed professional counselor who specializes in sensory
processing sensitivity may be a good-option. It’s take courage and it’s
brave. The therapeutic space is a soft place to land and a safe place to
share, explore, process, and figure things out on your path toward
better mental health.
Seeing Your Strengths
Being highly
sensitive can be challenging. And it brings unique strengths and
superpowers. Recognizing your strengths reconnects you to yourself. It
restores your power and naturally grows your confident. It also
validates you as you are, helping you embrace your sensitivity.
Being Kind to Yourself
Highly
sensitive individuals often struggle with self-criticism and
comparison. It’s is very possible to learn to transform your inner
critic that points their finger at all things wrong into an inner coach
that waves and cheersyou on for being yourself. Having chances to be
more kind to yourself makes improving your mental health and wellbeing
much more pleasurable.
Learning and Growing
Holistic therapy is a
path of healing and self-discovery. You learn more about yourself,
cultivate your choice-making power, and uncover strengths and solutions
that help you create more smiles each day.
Feeling Strong and Confident
It's about getting back into the driver's seat, where you're behind the wheel of your thoughts and feelings. You're the driver of your psycho-emotional car and can become more in control and have agency over your day.
You're not alone, and there's hope for feeling better. Holistic therapy is empowering. It can help you uncover tools to be in your life with improved mental well-being.
For instance, one highly
sensitive client learned how to lower her social anxiety and feel good
about herself. They had more rewarding and uplifting times with their
friends and better co-worker interactions.
Learning how to handle tough situations and feel good about yourself is possible.
Taking care of your mental health as a highly sensitive person means
It also means upgrading your self-care and asking for help when needed.
If you're thinking about holistic therapy, Mind Body Well Holistic therapy, Pllc is here for you. If you want to know more or book an appointment, feel free to get in touch and have a brief chat with Lucrezia Mangione, the licensed professional counselor, holistic therapist, and brain trainer here at Mind Body Well Holistic therapy, Pllc. She's here to support you on your journey to feeling better.
Explore whether holistic therapy, EEG brain training, or KAP ketamine-assisted psychotherapy right for you. Reach out for a no-charge consult.
Lucrezia Mangione works to lift up anxious, highly sensitive women in discovering how to fine-tune their focus and attention, feel shielded from other people’s needs, and discover the strengths of being sensitive so that they stay steady amid the busyness, feel calm and more spacious, have more peace of mind to live and work on their own terms. Lucrezia Mangione is a board
certified licensed professional counselor, board certified telemental
health provider, neurofeedback trainer, KAP ketamine-assisted psychotherapy therapist and approved
counselor supervisor.
She is the owner of Mind Body Well Therapy, Pllc, a private practice.