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The Highly Sensitive Human Academy

We are a centre of learning and accredited training for the 1 in 5 people who process the world more deeply, and for the practitioners who want to work with them skilfully. Whichever brings you here, there is a clear path through.

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Two paths through the Academy

Most people arrive here in one of two modes, either wanting to understand their own sensitivity and live with more ease, or wanting the training and credentials to support sensitive people professionally. Many people eventually walk both, and you are welcome to start wherever feels true today.

Path one · For yourself

Come home to your own sensitivity

For the deep feelers who have spent years being told they were too much, too intense or too emotional, and who are ready to move out of overwhelm, overstimulation and people-pleasing into something steadier. You will learn to regulate your nervous system, hold boundaries that hold, and recognise your depth of processing as the resource it has always been.

  • The HSP Foundation Programme, 6 weeks, self-paced
  • 1-to-1 transpersonal coaching with Jules De Vitto
  • Annual residential retreats for highly sensitive people
  • Free guides on nervous system regulation and people-pleasing
See the personal path
Path two · For your practice

Train to work with sensitive people

For coaches, therapists, psychologists, educators, bodyworkers and facilitators who want an accredited, trauma-informed framework for working with high sensitivity, along with the confidence to niche and the community to sustain it. Our trainings carry accredited CPD hours and are grounded in research, depth psychology and somatic practice.

  • Professional HSP Coach Training, 3 months, IACTM accredited
  • 4-day in-person practitioner training in London
  • Specialist certificates in Highly Sensitive Children, Trauma-Informed Practices and High Sensation Seeking
  • Build a Soul-Aligned Business, 6-month mentoring
See the professional path

Not sure whether you are a highly sensitive person?

Our self-discovery assessment is rooted in Dr Elaine Aron's research on sensory processing sensitivity, and it will give you language for what you have probably felt your whole life, together with a personalised set of next steps.

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The Highly Sensitive Human Academy

High sensitivity, known in the research as sensory processing sensitivity, is an innate trait rather than a disorder, and it is shared by 1 in 5 people. We are here for the deep feelers who have always known they were wired differently, and for the practitioners who want to work with them well.

Authenticity

Come home to your authentic gifts and your purpose. Through a transpersonal and integrative approach, we walk with highly sensitive people through self-discovery and transformation, so you can stop masking and start living as yourself.

Accredited courses

Our IACTM accredited professional trainings give coaches, therapists and educators an evidence-informed, trauma-informed framework, and carry CPD hours you can put on your website. They move people from overwhelm and burnout towards resilience and thriving.

Healing & evolution

Our work supports genuine healing, drawing on nervous system regulation, parts work, somatic and body-based practice and depth psychology, so that each person finds a holistic and personal path towards embodying their own calling.

Why choose the Highly Sensitive Human Academy?

1 in 5 People carry the trait
Dr Elaine Aron's research on SPS

Your sensitivity is a trait, not a disorder. Yet most highly sensitive people grow up being told they are too much, too intense or too emotional, and spend years quietly asking what is wrong with them. Many learn to mask, to please, to override their own needs until burnout makes that impossible. The depth of processing, empathy, intuition and creativity that came with the trait get suppressed along the way.

The Academy exists to change that. Our professional trainings educate coaches, therapists, psychologists, educators, parents and leaders in what it genuinely means to be highly sensitive, grounded in Dr Elaine Aron's research, transpersonal psychology, somatic practice and trauma-informed care rather than in wellness slogans.

The research is clear that highly sensitive people do not simply struggle more in difficult environments, they also flourish more in nurturing ones, and that potential is routinely overlooked. Whether you are here to understand your own sensitivity or to work with sensitive clients, you will leave with a framework you can trust, tools you can use tomorrow, and a cohort of people who understand how you are wired.

Path one

For your own journey

If you are exhausted from masking, from being the capable and reliable one, from carrying everybody else's feelings alongside your own, this is where to begin. The work here is practical and gentle at once, drawing on nervous system regulation, self-compassion, parts work and transpersonal psychology, so that you can live from a more regulated and grounded place.

Signature course

Next cohort · 5 October 2026

The HSP Foundation Programme

A 6-week, self-paced course covering nervous system regulation, boundaries, emotional overwhelm and self-worth, with tools you can carry for life. Designed for highly sensitive people who want to understand the trait properly and apply it.

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1 to 1

Limited places

Transpersonal coaching with Jules De Vitto

Private sessions for highly sensitive people navigating burnout recovery, career change, relationship patterns or a deeper sense of calling, working somatically and with an integrative, trauma-informed approach.

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Free to download

Start today

Guides and resources

An introduction to the highly sensitive person, 7 ways to regulate your nervous system, and a guide to stopping people-pleasing while honouring your own needs, all free and written for sensitive readers.

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Path two

For your practice

Our accredited trainings educate coaches, therapists, psychologists, educators, parents and leaders in what it genuinely means to be highly sensitive, and give them a coherent framework for the work. You will leave with a defined niche, a clear scope of practice, accredited CPD hours and a cohort of colleagues who understand how you work.

Flagship certification · September 2026

Professional HSP Coach Training

3 months of live and self-paced learning in which you will develop the fundamental skills for coaching highly sensitive people from a holistic and integrative framework, covering the 8-step coaching process, parts work, shadow work, holding space, trauma-informed practice and nervous system co-regulation.

  • Duration3 months
  • AccreditationIACTM accredited
  • Cohort sizeCapped at 15 to 20 places
  • FormatLive webinars, forum, self-paced modules
In person

22 to 25 April 2027 · London

4-Day HSP Practitioner Training

4 days at House of Transformation covering group process, facilitation, shadow work, imagery and dreamwork, with certification as an HSP Informed-Practitioner and 40 accredited professional development hours.

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Specialist certificate

February 2027

Highly Sensitive Child Practitioner Training

Certifies professionals to support highly sensitive children through an integrative programme, so that the children and families they work with can thrive rather than simply cope.

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Specialist certificate

September 2026

The Sensation-Seeking HSP

A 7-week professional course with Dr Tracy Cooper on the 50 percent of highly sensitive people who are also high in sensation seeking, and who live with the paradox of needing both stimulation and deep rest.

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Continuing professional development

April 2027

Advanced Trauma-Informed HSP Coaching

Designed exclusively for coaches and practitioners who already work with sensitive clients and want to deepen their understanding of trauma, scope of practice and reflective practice within an HSP-affirming frame.

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Mentoring

Cohort begins 19 October 2026

Build a Soul-Aligned Business

A 6-month container for sensitive practitioners building a practice that can sustain them, with 12 private sessions, 6 workbooks and ongoing support on marketing, positioning and the mindset that makes it possible.

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Free resources for Highly Sensitive Humans

The blog

Long-form writing on nervous system regulation, the overlap between high sensitivity, autism and ADHD, and the research behind the trait.

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The podcast

Highly Sensitive Humans, with conversations on sensitivity, depth, purpose and the practice of living well in a loud world.

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The HSP directory

Find a certified HSP coach or practitioner trained through the Academy, wherever in the world you happen to be.

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