The trait, properly understood
What sensory processing sensitivity actually is, why it is a temperament rather than a pathology, and what that distinction changes in the room.
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Coaching highly sensitive people: a professional guide
A transpersonal and integrative approach to coaching highly sensitive people, including 10 key takeaways you can bring into your practice.
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Worth knowing
50%
Of clients seeking coaching or therapy
identify as highly sensitive
identify as highly sensitive
A trait most training programmes never mention
Research suggests that around 50% of clients seeking coaching or therapy identify as highly sensitive, which is a striking contrast to the general population. Yet despite this prevalence, high sensitivity is still poorly understood and rarely addressed in professional training programmes.
This guide is an orientation for practitioners who sense that working with highly sensitive people requires a different approach.
What's inside
An orientation you can use in your next session
A transpersonal and integrative approach to coaching highly sensitive people, with 10 key takeaways drawn from the research and from practice.
A transpersonal, integrative frame
How depth, meaning and the body can sit alongside practical strategy, and why sensitive clients tend to need both rather than one or the other.
10 key takeaways
Practical points you can apply immediately, whatever modality you work in and whatever your existing training covered.
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Who this is for
Practitioners who sense something is being missed
If a good proportion of your clients feel everything more deeply than the people around them, you are already working with high sensitivity, whether or not it has ever been named.
- Coaches and mentors working with sensitive clients
- Therapists, counsellors and psychotherapists
- Psychologists and clinical practitioners
- Somatic and body-based practitioners
- Educators, facilitators and other space holders
- Anyone considering a specialism in high sensitivity
A note on scope
This guide is an orientation rather than a qualification. It gives you a coherent way of understanding the trait and ten things you can apply straight away, and it will tell you fairly quickly whether this way of working is one you want to go further into.
If it is, the Professional HSP Coach Training takes it considerably deeper.
Once you have read it
Where practitioners usually go next
Professional HSP Coach Training
A 3-month IACTM accredited programme in transpersonal, integrative coaching, with 160 to 200 hours of professional development.
Find out more4-Day HSP Practitioner Training
Four days of live, in-person practice in April 2027, with certification as an HSP Informed-Practitioner and 40 accredited PD hours.
Learn moreList your practice
Once you work with sensitive clients as a specialism, the HSP Directory puts you in front of people already searching for exactly that.
See the directory