Creativity Counseling for the Highly Sensitive Person

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The Highly Sensitive Person Survival Guide

Have you gone through your life struggling to feel "in control" of big feelings? Have you felt overwhelmed by the intensity of your feelings? Have you ever gotten stuck in situations or trapped in health systems that didn't understand your big feelings? That you were screaming inside that there was nothing wrong with you? Have you asked yourself that same question?  Powerful emotions are part of who you are, and they are in fact a  strength and important aspect of your personality. You do not have to quiet them or fight with to live well! They are an asset to you and you don't need to struggle! Did you know that big feelings are something that Creative People and Highly Sensitive People share?  To have a creative mind means to have big passions- passions for life, passions for art, passions for relationships- but this also means the passions in general!   In Creativity Counseling, you will discover the freedom and ease of understanding and living with your powerful emotions, as the all-important information sources they are in your life.  

Creative Minds are Highly Sensitive

Because powerful feelings are such a main feature of the Creative Personality, if you are a Highly Sensitive Person, I am taking the logical leap that you are also probably highly creative. While this may mean you have an inclination for the arts, it also means much more than that!  Creative People have passions and energies that are big, and focused on authenticity, making meaning, and paving their own way in the world. They have personalities with features and needs that are specific and need to be understood and supported- and those are the fundamentals of my healing philosophy!

Highly Sensitive Person Treatment

Most traditional mental health approaches do not serve Highly Sensitive People well, because they teach you to control, suppress, tolerate or block your emotions. When you feel all of your emotions powerfully, by suppressing your emotions you are inviting into your life a constant struggle.  Working with the philosophy of healing in Creativity Counseling, you instead embrace that as a Creative Person, it is part of who you are to feel deeply, and that feelings are an important part of your life experience.  When you start listening and stop resisting your experiences, you will begin to feel a release from your pain and suffering. 

A Sensitive Person is Not a Problem

One of the difficulties with the mental health system, is emotional experiences become labeled as problems and symptoms. This is especially marginalizing to HSP's whose life revolves around their emotional experience of the world. Your emotions are the way that your body is communicating experiences and information to your brain. As there is diversity in people, there is diversity in the intensity in emotions. It just so happens, that as the Creative Person has a natural need to make meaning of the world around them and live an authentic life, emotions are a natural and important part of that.  HSP's and Creative People are also often the same people. Unfortunately, then, the mental health system can fail to meet the needs of both groups, because of its clinical structure. What a tragedy!  Your feelings are not a problem- they are a gift! 

A Sensitive Person is Powerful

As an HSP and Creative Person with powerful emotions, you have very strong forces at your disposal, and, like anything powerful, this can go well, or, not so well for you.  When someone comes to me for counseling, it is usually because their powerful emotions have disserviced them in some way in their life.  The work we will do together in Creativity Counseling, is to understand where your strong feelings have caused you difficulties, and, how we can help channel them into directions that not only serve you, but ultimately launch you into the life of your dreams.

HSPs Counseling

As a Creative HSP, you are likely having emotional reactions along with thoughts and questions to your experiences every day.  I encourage you to consider a life where you use them and listen to them as a way to take care of yourself well, and live authentically. Your emotions can be the best way for you to find happiness within yourself. I would love to help you build a healthy and empowered relationship with the strong asset of your emotional sensitivity. You can use this natural personality gift as an energy and information stream to flourish! 

How you can Change your Life Today!

If you are interested in real, impactful and lasting life change for your creative mind, I would love to help you.  Let's connect and launch your life to the next level!  I have three steps you can take, right now from my site if you are ready to take an important step forward in your life: 

1) Join my Artists in Residency Program.  This is a Free, Online Community of Artists where you can build support, accountability and a network of Creative People as a stepping stone towards reconnecting and committing to your authentic, creative self. 
2) Book a Free Consultation.  All new clients to Creatively, LLC are entitled to a 15 min, free consultation to sit with me and discuss your needs, services available, and we can problem solve and hand-pick best next steps to help you succeed.
3) Book a Coaching Package. Are you a working Creative in need of specific support? I offer a range of Coaching Packages- let's get started with one that is right for you.