Professional Training:
Coaching Highly
Sensitive People

We begin by laying the foundations, exploring what it truly means to be a Highly Sensitive Person through the lens of research, neuroscience, and lived experience. You will develop a rich understanding of the HSP trait, moving far beyond popular misconceptions to examine the biology and temperament of high sensitivity in depth. This module also introduces key assessment tools you can use with clients and invites you to begin reframing sensitivity not as a limitation, but as a profound and meaningful way of engaging with the world.

This module introduces the holistic and integrative coaching philosophy at the heart of everything we do at HSHA. You will explore what distinguishes this approach from conventional coaching and from therapy, and begin working with the HSH Integrative Model for Embodied Transformation. Through case studies, articles, and foundational principles, you will develop a clear sense of how to hold a coaching space that honours the whole person, mind, body, soul, and the deeper dimensions of human experience.

Drawing on IFS, integrative psychology, and depth approaches to identity, this module takes you into one of the most important questions a coach can hold with their clients: who am I, beneath the roles, the conditioning, and the stories? You will explore the nature of the Self, work with the 8 C's of Self energy, and be introduced to the 8-Step HSH Coaching Process, alongside guided meditations and a coaching demonstration.

Before we can support our clients in going inward, we must first learn to be fully present ourselves. This module explores the art and practice of holding space, what it means to show up with a healing presence, and how open awareness and mindfulness become tools for both the coach and the highly sensitive client. You will deepen your own practice and learn how to guide your clients into states of expanded, receptive awareness as part of the coaching process.

Grounded in Internal Family Systems and an integrative understanding of the psyche, this module explores how to work with the inner landscape of an HSP client. You will learn to identify and work with different parts, including protective, exiled, and manager parts, helping clients move from internal conflict towards greater integration and self-compassion. Includes a coaching demonstration and a full parts coaching process.

Research consistently shows that self-compassion is one of the most powerful antidotes to the self-criticism and emotional overwhelm that many HSPs experience. This module draws on the work of Kristin Neff and the RAIN framework, equipping you with compassionate letter exercises, the self-compassion break, compassionate chair work, and guided meditations your clients will return to again and again.

Highly sensitive people often carry a deep longing for meaningful, values-aligned work and a life that truly reflects who they are. This module explores the relationship between sensitivity and purpose, drawing on values clarification, the Ikigai model, Acceptance and Commitment approaches, and intuition-based practices to help your clients connect with what genuinely matters and move towards aligned, embodied action.

This module takes you into some of the most profound territory a coach can explore with their clients. We examine the shadow, suppressed emotions, and the golden shadow, the gifts HSP clients have often learned to hide, and explore practical integration techniques to bring what has been fragmented back into wholeness. Safely, ethically, and with real depth.

Working with highly sensitive people requires a trauma-informed lens. This module gives you a solid grounding in trauma-informed practice, introducing the polyvagal ladder, the window of tolerance, and practical somatic and regulatory tools to support your clients in feeling safe enough to do the deeper work. An essential ethical foundation for every HSP coach.

Non-Violent Communication, authentic expression, and the throat chakra as a symbolic gateway to finding one's voice. Practical tools and scripts for coaches working with clients who are learning to communicate from a more grounded, authentic place.

The closing module, an invitation into the deepest layer of transformation. Moving beyond the conditioning and programming that has shaped how sensitivity has been lived and hidden, and stepping into the fullness of who we truly are. Includes a letting go meditation and a holistic model of change for the final integration of your three months together.