Coaching Highly Sensitive People
A 6-month accredited training in transpersonal, integrative coaching, for practitioners who want the depth and the professional grounding to truly meet sensitive clients.
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Capped at 15 to 20 places · Scholarships available
About the Training
Around 50% of people who seek out coaching, therapy or mentorship are Highly Sensitive. This training gives you the depth, the tools, and the professional grounding to truly meet them.
Highly Sensitive People are not simply emotional or easily overwhelmed. They are deep processors who are gifted with empathy, attunement, and a sensitivity to subtlety that, with the right support, becomes a profound source of strength. They respond extraordinarily well to positive interventions, and they flourish when they are met by a coach who genuinely understands their inner world.
This programme is unlike conventional coach training. Grounded in transpersonal and integrative coaching, parts work, somatic awareness, shadow work, trauma-informed approaches and frameworks for connecting to one's values and purpose, it offers a genuinely integrative framework - one that honours the whole person and holds space for transformation at every level.
Over three months, you will not only develop the skills to coach highly sensitive clients with confidence and depth. You will also be supported in your own journey of healing and personal growth, because the most powerful coaching always begins with the coach.
Is this for you?
You are in the right place if…
You already work with sensitive clients
You are called to more purposeful work
You carry self-doubt about stepping into this work
You are new to coaching and want to find your niche
You are a highly sensitive person yourself
You want a practice that feels truly aligned
Core Learning Areas
What you will learn
Key transformative areas that form the heart of the HSH coaching approach, each one chosen because of how profoundly it serves the highly sensitive person.
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The Science & Soul of High Sensitivity
A deep grounding in the research, neuroscience, and lived experience of the HSP trait, moving far beyond the surface to understand what sensitivity really means and how it shapes every dimension of a person's life.
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Transpersonal & Integrative Coaching
The philosophy and practice of the HSH Integrative Model, a framework that holds the whole person, from the psychological to the spiritual, and creates real space for embodied transformation.
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Parts Work & IFS
How to work with the inner landscape of an HSP client, identifying and integrating protective, exiled and manager parts, facilitating self-acceptance, and moving clients from internal conflict towards wholeness.
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Shadow Work & Integration
The disowned self, the golden shadow, and the suppressed emotions that quietly run the show. Some of the most transformative work you will ever do with a client, held safely and ethically within the coaching container.
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Trauma-Informed Practice
The polyvagal ladder, the window of tolerance, and how to hold a nervous-system-aware coaching space. Essential for working with sensitive people, whose systems are more responsive and need more careful attunement.
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Self-Compassion, Boundaries & Purpose
Three of the most consistently challenging areas for highly sensitive people, each explored in depth through research-backed frameworks, coaching processes, and practical tools you can use in sessions from day one.
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Building Your HSP Coaching Practice
A full suite of business and marketing materials designed specifically for sensitive coaches, covering niche clarity, brand values, story-led marketing, social media, and a 90-day visibility plan.
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And beyond…
Bonus modules on communication skills and NVC, working with highly sensitive children, and going beyond our pre-programming, plus a growing library of guest expert webinars and somatic workshops.
What you receive
A rich, layered programme built with care, every element chosen to support your professional development and your personal growth as a sensitive practitioner.
12 Core Modules
Weekly pre-recorded video lessons, in-depth written content, guided meditations, and practical exercises released each week throughout the programme.
Live Workshops
Two-hour Tuesday evening workshops with coaching practice, live Q&A, and peer connection. Recordings available if you cannot attend live.
Workbooks & Resources
Downloadable workbooks, coaching scripts, meditation scripts, assessment tools, and resource packs for every module, yours to keep and use with clients.
Coaching Demos
Filmed coaching demonstrations of the HSH coaching model in practice, allowing you to observe and absorb before stepping into your own sessions with confidence.
Bonus Modules
Four additional modules covering communication skills and NVC, highly sensitive children, going beyond pre-programming, and a full business and marketing suite for HSP coaches.
Expert Guest Webinars
An ever-growing library of bonus sessions including somatic workshops with Simone Da Costa, and specialist sessions on integrative coaching and compassion.
Peer-to-Peer Coaching
Structured practice hours with your cohort, with full support and a tracking system, building towards your professional accreditation hours in a safe, supportive environment.
Professional Accreditation
Full pathway to IACTM accreditation and Association of Coaching membership, plus listing on the HSHA coach directory and a professional badge for your website.
Scholarship Access
A limited number of partial scholarships are available for those who need financial support, covering approximately 20% of the course fee. Applications are reviewed individually.
8th March to 6th September 2027
12 modules delivered in fortnightly blocks, each with a live workshop, followed by 2 self-paced bonus modules and an integration period to complete your peer-to-peer coaching and assignments before certification.
An orientation to the programme and to sensory processing sensitivity as Dr Elaine Aron's research describes it. You'll explore how the trait shows up in yourself and in your clients, and why it is best understood as a temperament, before meeting the rest of your cohort.
What makes a transpersonal and integrative approach different, and why it suits sensitive clients who often need depth alongside practical strategy. You'll learn how to hold an intake conversation and assess a client's focus area, so the work begins in the right place.
An exploration of the core Self, the inner source of strength that sits beneath our roles and conditioning, and how to help clients reconnect with it. You'll also be introduced to the 8-step HSH integrative coaching process that underpins the rest of the course.
How to create a container that feels safe enough for a sensitive nervous system, with attention to presence and co-regulation. You'll practise active listening and other ways of knowing in pairs, and begin receiving feedback on your own coaching.
Drawing on Internal Family Systems, this module looks at the parts that develop to protect highly sensitive people, such as the people-pleaser, the inner critic and the perfectionist. You'll learn a parts coaching process that helps clients understand these parts so they can gradually soften and unburden.
Many sensitive people are far kinder to others than they are to themselves, and this module works directly with that imbalance. You'll learn compassion-based practices grounded in research, along with a coaching exercise you can use with clients from your very first session.
Helping clients become clear on what matters to them and how that translates into a sense of purpose and direction in their lives and work. You'll work through the values and purpose coaching process, which forms the later steps of the 8-step model.
An introduction to the shadow as Jung described it, and to the way highly sensitive people often exile qualities such as anger, ambition or need in order to fit in. You'll explore the shadow mask activity and gentle ways of bringing disowned parts back into awareness with clients.
Highly sensitive people have more responsive nervous systems, which can leave them more prone to trauma symptoms. This module covers how to recognise trauma, work at a pace a client's system can hold, and stay within your scope of practice, including knowing when and how to refer.
A practical module on creating content that reaches the people you most want to work with, written in your own voice and grounded in your own story. It runs alongside the marketing and branding workshop, so you leave with material you can begin using straight away.
An exploration of the beliefs and conditioning we absorb about who we should be, and how these shape the way sensitive people live and work. It closes the live part of the course with space to reflect on your next steps as a practitioner.
Why boundaries are so often difficult for highly sensitive people, and how to help clients recognise their needs and communicate them without guilt. You'll explore ways of working with the fears that tend to sit underneath people-pleasing.
Drawing on Non-violent Communication, this module looks at how sensitive people can express feelings and needs clearly and kindly, particularly in moments of conflict. You'll consider how to bring these skills into your coaching and into your own relationships.
Integration period
No further live workshops, so you have space to work through the 2 bonus modules, review the course material, complete your peer-to-peer coaching sessions and submit your assignments at your own pace.
Authentic Marketing as an HSP Coach: Clarify Your Purpose and Story runs as an ongoing thread throughout the full programme.
Business and Marketing Materials
You will also have access to the Business and Marketing materials for HSP Coaches. The content is weaved throughout the course and includes 6 x workbooks and all the essential activities and resources needed to establish a thriving coaching practice. It includes:
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Module 1: Clarifying your Identity, Mission, Vision and Purpose
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Module 2: Getting Clear on your Niche & Creating a Customer Avatar
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Module 3: Overcoming Self-Doubt & Imposter Syndrome
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Module 4: Story Telling not Selling
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Module 5: Branding & Building your Website
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Module 6: Creating Visibility through Social Media
"High sensitivity is not a limitation to manage. It is a profound way of engaging with the world - one that carries extraordinary gifts for those who learn to honour it."
— Jules De Vitto, Founder of the HSHS Academy
The people who will hold this space
Jules De Vitto
Founder & Lead TrainerJules is the founder of the Highly Sensitive Human Academy and a leading expert in the field of high sensitivity. She is an accredited coach, trainer, and experienced educator who brings together academic rigour, lived experience as an HSP, and a deep passion for the inner life.
Her professional journey spans primary school teaching, ten months at a retreat centre in Portugal supporting individuals with addiction and burnout, teaching across three countries, and years of research and writing at the intersection of integrative psychology and the HSP trait.
Her work has been featured in SAND and Highly Sensitive Refuge, and she has been invited to speak on multiple international podcasts on sensitivity and wellbeing.
Simone Da Costa
Teaching & Admin SupportSimone is a certified HSP Coach, Integrative Psychotherapist, Facilitator, Author, and Yoga and Meditation teacher. Her training is in Core Process Psychotherapy, the integration of Buddhist psychology with Western psychodynamics, and she brings a rich somatic and mindfulness-based lens to the programme.
Simone facilitates the bonus somatic workshop included in the course library, and her presence on the course offers students an additional layer of therapeutic grounding and integrative wisdom.
Your Path to Accreditation
This programme offers two levels of professional certification, depending on the coaching hours you complete. Both are recognised pathways, and both open the door to listing on the HSHA and IACTM directories.
Professional Practitioner for Highly Sensitive People
160 Hours of Professional DevelopmentCompleting the core programme gives you 160 hours of professional training and certification as a Professional Practitioner for Highly Sensitive People, without any additional coaching hours required.
Professional Coach for Highly Sensitive People
200 Hours of Professional DevelopmentAdd 40 hours of pro-bono coaching to your 160 training hours and you will receive full certification as a Professional Coach for Highly Sensitive People, with IACTM accreditation and AC membership eligibility. These 40 hours can, with appropriate evidence, include coaching hours accrued through previous coaching qualifications or practice.
On completing the programme you will receive:
Making this training accessible
We believe this training should be accessible to those who are called to do this work. A limited number of partial scholarships are available for the September cohort, covering approximately 20% of the course fee. Applications are reviewed individually and warmly welcomed.
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This course has been such a gift. I loved the mix of learning — each module was a mix of video, text, articles, resources along with practical exercises, live workshops, and the chance to connect in the community forum. It felt supportive and inspiring throughout, and I came away not only with so much new knowledge but with personal insights that have really stayed with me. I would wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone wanting learning, growth and connection.
Such a supportive and nourishing space. Jules has created the perfect program for Highly Sensitive People looking to support others. I have done many other trainings and this one is definitely one of a kind.
My expectations for quality were exceeded many times over during the course. I sincerely and professionally recommend anyone who is considering this topic to study here. You will not only gain in-depth and practical knowledge, but also a community of like-minded people with a sensitive understanding of your individual needs and abilities.
I trained with Jules to obtain the HSP Coach qualification, and her 3-month training course is absolutely amazing. So informative and inspiring, combining psychology with practical coaching and even marketing materials. This course has added an incredible wealth of knowledge and tools to my personal and professional development. I thoroughly recommend it to any aspiring coach who would like to work with HSPs.
I just finished the HSP coaching course and it was beyond my expectations. I feel I got everything that I expected and more. After this course I feel so resourced, supported and empowered, both as a HSP and as a coach, and taking the course was also a healing process for myself. I really feel you get so much for your money.
Jules provided a beautiful sacred and safe container for the course participants. Her warm, gentle and supportive approach was so welcoming and the course was so professionally structured and presented. I couldn't recommend Jules highly enough for anyone considering joining her courses or retreats.
If you're highly sensitive, an empath, or just feel like the world is too much for your tender nervous system, I highly recommend taking this course. It's packed full of evidence-based practices from psychology, neuroscience, mindfulness and tons of education from the research on the trait of sensory processing sensitivity.
I attended Jules' course to become a Professional HSP coach. Her course was full of thoughtful content, engaging live workshops that brought the content to life, and allowed me to meet and work with fellow HSP learners to put the coaching tools into practice. I'd highly recommend this course.
The HSP Coaching Course was everything I'd hoped for and more. Excellent insights and frameworks for working with highly sensitive people, well paced and organised and lots of personal learning too.
The course is so informative and pitched at just the right level for both people with a background of psychology and total beginners. Informative and well structured, and Jules delivers it in a calm and supportive way. 100% recommend.
It was really a wonderful and enriching experience to join the Highly Sensitive Human Academy for the coaching course. Having a community to share and understand sensitivity further made a huge difference in my own practice. The content of the course is deep, well organised and Jules is a wonderful teacher.
I had the absolute pleasure of joining Jules' course on Coaching for HSP. I learned so much about being Highly Sensitive, how to support others who are and myself. And it was all done in a very organised and supportive way. I'm extremely grateful to Jules for all her teachings and support.
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