Teachers & educators
Supporting the social-emotional wellbeing of highly sensitive children inside and outside the classroom, with tools you can use in the room the next morning.
Professional training certificate
Highly Sensitive Child Practitioner Training
A 3-month certificate for the teachers, coaches, therapists and parents who want a real framework for supporting the 1 in 5 children who feel everything more deeply.
Self-paced and fully online · 40 hours of professional development
40 hours of professional development
Self-paced & fully online
Next cohort 16 February 2027
Students in 20+ countries
You have already noticed them
The child who feels everything
There is usually one in every classroom, every club, every caseload. The child who notices what nobody else noticed. Who cries easily and is told they are too sensitive. Who comes home from a busy day completely overstimulated and unravels at the door.
High sensitivity, known in the research as sensory processing sensitivity, is an innate trait rather than a disorder, and it is found in roughly 1 in 5 children. The research is also clear that these children do not simply struggle more in difficult environments, they flourish more in nurturing ones than their peers do.
Which means the adults around them matter enormously. Without someone who understands the trait, sensitive children learn early that something is wrong with them, and their self-esteem and confidence carry that cost for years.
In their own words
“Why do I cry so easily?”
“Why does everything feel like too much?”
“Why can't I just get on with things like everyone else?”
“Why do I need so much time alone?”
“Is there something wrong with me?”
These are the questions highly sensitive adults tell us they were carrying as children, often for decades, before anyone gave them the language for the trait. Understanding it early changes the whole trajectory.
Who this training is for
If you work with young people, this is for you
The course is designed for experienced professionals and for those newer to working with children. Every tool and resource can be applied in a professional setting or at home.
Coaches & mentors
Working with young people in schools, private practice or community settings, and wanting a defined niche grounded in research rather than instinct alone.
Therapists & practitioners
Looking for an HSP-affirming, trauma-aware framework to bring into an existing practice, alongside a clear sense of your own scope of practice.
Tutors
Working one to one with young people in schools or independently, who want to understand why some students need a different pace and a quieter room.
Parents & home-educators
Exploring how to support your own highly sensitive child, and very often recognising something of yourself along the way.
Leaders & guides
Running workshops, clubs or activities where sensitive children need a space designed for their nervous systems rather than one they have to endure.
Whichever of these you are, you almost certainly became it because you noticed something in a child that other people walked past.
What is included
10 modules, worked through at your own pace
Each module includes a pre-recorded webinar, self-paced lessons, downloadable workbooks and reading materials. The recommended schedule is 12 weeks at 3 to 4 hours a week, and you can take it slower if life needs you to.
Module 1
An introduction to highly sensitive children
- Understanding high sensitivity. The key traits, the biological basis, and how the trait actually shows up in daily life.
- The strengths of HSCs. Deep empathy, intuition and creativity, and how to nurture them rather than flatten them.
Module 2
Mindfulness tools & holding space
- Mindfulness practices for HSCs. Gentle, grounding techniques including breathwork, visualisation and sensory awareness.
- Creating a supportive space. Holding space with presence and attunement, so children feel safe enough to be themselves.
Module 3
Emotional awareness and regulation
- Building emotional awareness. Reflective practice, storytelling and body-based awareness to help children name what they feel.
- Supporting self-regulation. Co-regulation, sensory tools and nervous system work for overwhelm and emotional intensity.
Module 4
Parts work with highly sensitive children
- Inner parts, child-friendly. Guiding children to recognise and name their parts, such as the Worried One or the Brave One.
- Integration and inner harmony. Storytelling, drawing and imaginative play to build trusting relationships with those parts.
Module 5
Healthy self-esteem & confidence
- Affirming the sensitive temperament. Reframing sensitivity so children feel seen and valued for who they actually are.
- Building inner confidence. Practices that help children trust their intuition and meet challenges with resilience.
Module 6
Boundaries & healthy communication
- Gentle boundary setting. Helping children recognise their own needs and limits, and voice them in ways that feel safe.
- Open, empathic communication. Modelling honest dialogue that builds trust and emotional safety in relationships.
Module 7
Self-compassion & self-care
- Nurturing inner kindness. Age-appropriate practices that build a gentler inner voice and emotional resilience.
- Self-care as empowerment. Simple rituals of rest, creative expression and sensory nourishment.
Module 8
Values, purpose and spiritual exploration
- Inner guidance and meaning-making. Reflective practices exploring values, personal truth and what matters most to them.
- Gentle spiritual curiosity. Safe spaces for wonder and belonging, through nature, dreams, ritual or imagination.
Module 9
Research articles & additional resources
- Evidence-based insights. Academic articles on high sensitivity in children across psychological, neurological and developmental perspectives.
- Further learning. Recommended books, podcasts and tools for deepening your practice at home, in school or in therapeutic settings.
Module 10
Practical application & work-based project
- Integrating learning into practice. A personalised project applying the tools and insights to your own professional context.
- Creative project options. A leaflet, presentation, workshop plan or another format that fits your setting and your own voice.
10 pre-recorded webinars
Downloadable workbooks
Reading materials & MP3s
Lifetime access
Professional development
40
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You will be certified as
Illustrative example
A Highly Sensitive Child
Informed Practitioner
A framework, a certification, and tools you can use on Monday
This is a practical training, not a theory course. Everything is designed to be taken straight into a classroom, a session or a kitchen table conversation. By the end you will have:
- Certification as a Highly Sensitive Child Informed Practitioner, having completed 40 hours of professional training you can list on your website and your professional profile.
- The ability to recognise highly sensitive children with confidence, and to distinguish the trait from the things it is so often mistaken for.
- A holistic, integrative and transpersonal framework for supporting their social-emotional wellbeing, grounded in research rather than instinct alone.
- Practical tools for co-regulation, parts work, boundaries and self-compassion, all adapted into language and activities that work with children.
- The evidence and language to advocate for these children with colleagues, school leadership and parents, so you are not the only one in the room who understands.
- A project of your own, built during the training, that becomes a real resource in your setting rather than an assignment you file away.
Your certification project
Work that becomes part of your practice
To receive certification you complete a work-based project exploring how your learning applies in your own professional context. You are supported through it throughout the training, and it is built around a real challenge rather than a hypothetical one.
You start by thinking of a current challenge or curiosity faced by you, your organisation, or the children you work with. From there, the project has three aims:
- To consolidate your understanding and knowledge of highly sensitive children.
- To show how you will implement that learning in a professional context.
- To create something new that can genuinely be used in your work, aligned with your own values and your purpose for becoming a practitioner.
What people actually make
There is no single format. Your project takes whatever shape is most useful in your setting and reflects your own voice, which is why so many students end up using theirs long after the training finishes.
A workshop plan
A presentation
A parent guide
A workbook
A leaflet
A short course
10 to 15 hours is the recommended time to spend on the project across the whole training, and it counts towards your certified hours.
The framework
An integrative approach to wellbeing
Everything in the training sits inside one holistic framework for empowering the social-emotional wellbeing of highly sensitive children, across four areas of their life.
Emotions & behaviour
Emotions, mindset and behaviour understood through the lens of a sensitive nervous system rather than a difficult temperament.
Relationships
Developing healthy relationships with others, including boundaries that hold and communication that feels safe to attempt.
Nature & environment
Connection and awareness of the wider environment, which sensitive children very often feel more keenly than anyone around them.
Inner life
Nurturing the child's own sense of meaning and expression, and empowering the innate gifts of sensitivity from a young age.
The aim is not to help sensitive children cope with the world as it is, but to help them thrive in it as they are.
Founder and course leader
Jules De Vitto
Jules is an accredited transpersonal coach, trainer and experienced educator, and the founder of the Highly Sensitive Human Academy. She spent 14 years working in education before this work, which is where most of the material in this training comes from.
She is a highly sensitive person herself. Her interest is in embracing the full spectrum of our emotional and sensory capacities rather than trying to fix ourselves, and in helping sensitive people navigate emotional overwhelm and align with what actually matters to them.
MSc Transpersonal Psychology
MA Education
BSc Psychology
Accredited coach & trainer
Featured in SAND and Highly Sensitive Refuge, and as a guest on the Sensitive SEO Podcast, the Quiet and Strong Podcast and the Healthy Sensitive Podcast.
Student voices
What people say after training with us
Students join from the US, Canada, Europe, Brazil, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore and the UK, among many other places.
“Jules has developed a fantastic course, covering so many modules which hugely resonated with me as a HSP, from learning about the trait itself to a framework for coaching, internal family systems and parts work, the shadow and self-compassion.
Adheem Malik Practitioner training
“This course is absolutely amazing and well written. Jules brings her knowledge from a teaching background together into a framework, which works. Her work is transformational and the content is perfectly detailed.
Mansi G Practitioner training
“Gained so much more knowledge about high sensitivity in general and specifically about children. I highly recommend the Highly Sensitive Human Academy.
Melanie Falkenstein Highly Sensitive Child training
Enrol
Highly Sensitive Child Practitioner Training
A self-paced online course with a recommended schedule of 12 weeks. The next group cohort begins 16 February 2027, and you are equally welcome to work through it entirely in your own time.
10 modules & webinars
Workbooks & resources
Certification on completion
IACTM accredited
7-day money-back guarantee
If you are not completely satisfied with the Highly Sensitive Child Practitioner Training, let us know within the first 7 days and we will refund you in full. No questions asked.
Before you enrol
Questions people usually ask
Who is the course for?
It is for professionals who work with young people and want to learn how to support highly sensitive children, and equally for parents or anyone wanting to understand how to support a highly sensitive child in their life. If you coach or mentor young people, it will be of interest too. Every tool and resource can be applied in a professional or a personal context.
How much time do I need to dedicate to it?
Around 3 to 4 hours a week, which comes to 40 hours in total. That breaks down as roughly 30 hours reading and reviewing the content, and 10 to 15 hours on your work-based project. The material is pre-recorded, so you fit it around your existing work rather than the other way round.
Do I have to join the live cohort?
No. The next group cohort begins 16 February 2027, and joining it gives you the rhythm of moving through the material alongside others. If that timing does not work, you can start whenever you like and go entirely at your own pace.
What is the work-based project?
It is a piece of work you design yourself, built around a real challenge or curiosity faced by you, your organisation, or the children you work with. It might become a presentation, a workbook, a parent guide, a workshop plan or a short course. It is required for certification, and you are supported through it throughout the training.
Am I qualified enough to take this?
The course is written for both experienced professionals and people newer to working with children, so no prior psychology training is needed. What matters more is the setting you will apply it in. Please do work within the boundaries of your own professional expertise, which the note below sets out in full.
Is the course all online?
Yes. Everything is online and made up of pre-recorded webinars, downloadable workbooks, worksheets, MP3s, videos and self-paced lessons.
Where are students based?
All over the world. Students have joined from the US, Canada, Europe, Brazil, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore and the UK, among many other places. Everyone is welcome, and because the material is self-paced, time zones are not a barrier.
What is the refund policy?
You can request a refund within 7 days of purchase, no questions asked. Refunds are not offered after that point. If you have chosen a payment plan, the plan must still be paid in full if the request falls outside the 7 days. If you have any questions about this, please get in touch before enrolling.
A note on good practice You are advised to apply the tools from this training within the boundaries of your professional expertise. A school teacher, for example, may use them in the classroom. If you do not currently work with young people and intend to practise independently, you must follow the safeguarding and legal requirements for working with under-18s in your own country.
Still deciding
Not sure whether it is the right fit?
Book a free 20-minute introductory call and ask anything you like. No pressure and no pitch, just a conversation about whether this training suits where you are and the children you work with.
Or email us and we will answer your questions in writing, if that feels easier.