When your greatest strength feels like your deepest burden.
Therapy for highly sensitive & recovering people-pleasers in CA
You’ve built a life on noticing every detail, anticipating every need, and striving for flawlessness.
Your sensitivity and drive are gifts, but they’ve come at a cost: a constant inner critic, exhausting people-pleasing, and a feeling that you’re never quite safe to relax into who you are. This is a space to transform your attunement from a source of anxiety into a foundation of authentic strength.
But you’re tired of feeling like…
Your worth is conditional on your productivity, perfection, or ability to care for others.
You’re trapped in old relational patterns, repeating dynamics from your past in your current relationships.
Your nervous system is a live wire, constantly scanning for emotional danger and subtle rejection.
Sound like you? Struggling with…
The Exhaustion of Over-Functioning: Carrying the mental load for everyone while your own needs go unmet.
Perfectionism & Procrastination: The paralyzing cycle of high standards and fear of failure.
Insecure Attachment & Relationship Anxiety: Feeling chronically insecure, jealous, or "too much" in relationships, or avoiding intimacy to stay safe.
Developmental & Relational Trauma: The lingering impact of childhood experiences where your sensitivity was misunderstood or your needs were a burden.
Here’s what we’ll do together.
We will create a sanctuary where your sensitivity is honored as data, not a defect. Our work integrates deep relational healing with practical tools to rewire old patterns.
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Our therapeutic relationship becomes a model for secure attachment. Through psychodynamic and attachment-focused therapy, we’ll explore early wounds and create new experiences of being seen and valued for your authentic self.
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Using parts work (IFS), we’ll gently identify and unburden the "performer," the "critic," and the wounded younger parts holding trauma, allowing your innate confidence and compassion to lead.
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We’ll use Brainspotting and somatic techniques to process the trapped anxiety and trauma in your body, moving you out of chronic "fight/flight/freeze/appease” and into a grounded state of safety.
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We’ll use CBT and narrative therapy to challenge the core beliefs of unworthiness, build assertive communication, and practice setting boundaries that honor your energy and truth.
At the end of the day, I want you to know: