Space for the Soul

Space for the Soul Holistic psychotherapist and mindfulness teacher specialising in trauma healing and personal growth

In person and online psychotherapy, weekly mindfulness class, workshops and online courses in mindfulness and personal development.

Most HSPs don’t need to try harder, they need a completely different approach that supports their sensitivity. An approa...
23/04/2026

Most HSPs don’t need to try harder, they need a completely different approach that supports their sensitivity.

An approach that works with the nervous system instead of trying to push past its limits. An approach that helps heal the connection between mind and the body and gets to the root of why sensitivity became a source of suffering in the first place.

That’s what my Sensitive Soul Framework is built around.
Through the 4 pillars - Regulate, Reconnect, Release and Reclaim - we work across every level of your experience. Body, nervous system, mind, and soul.

Because lasting change doesn’t happen when you only address one part of yourself, but when you’re supported to heal as a whole person.

The Sensitive Soul Immersion is my six-month 1:1 programme for HSPs who are done managing their symptoms and ready to actually return to their wholeness.

If that’s you, see the link in my bio to find out more and to apply.

Fifteen years as a holistic psychotherapist and spiritual coach specialising in HSPs and these still make me wince every...
21/04/2026

Fifteen years as a holistic psychotherapist and spiritual coach specialising in HSPs and these still make me wince every time.

Because I know what happens when sensitive people take this advice seriously. They try more, push harder, and end up further from themselves than when they started.

HSPs don’t just think differently. We process everything differently, at a neurological level. Which means surface-level solutions will always fall short.

The work that actually moves the needle addresses all levels of experience: nervous system, body, mind, and soul. That’s what I call the Sensitive Soul Framework, and it’s the foundation for all my work.

The Sensitive Soul Immersion is my 6-month 1:1 programme for HSPs who are done with approaches that treat sensitivity as the problem. Link in bio for more info and to apply.

As an HSP therapist with 15 years of experience, I have some strong feelings about what actually helps highly sensitive ...
16/04/2026

As an HSP therapist with 15 years of experience, I have some strong feelings about what actually helps highly sensitive people heal and what gets in the way.

Some of what’s out there is well-meaning but incomplete. Some of it actively reinforces the shame and exhaustion that brought people to therapy in the first place.

If you’ve tried to get better and found yourself wondering why it isn’t working, it might not be you. It might be the approach.

HSPs deserve support that works with their nervous system, not against it. Support that takes the body seriously. Support that doesn’t ask them to become someone they’re not.

If that resonates, my Sensitive Soul Immersion 1:1 programme is for you. Check out the link in my bio and reach out to talk about what working together looks like.

None of these things are actually unhinged.They just look that way when you’ve spent most of your life being told to pus...
14/04/2026

None of these things are actually unhinged.
They just look that way when you’ve spent most of your life being told to push through, toughen up, and keep going.

If you’re highly sensitive, the conventional advice was never designed for your nervous system. And trying to follow it is probably a big part of why you’re exhausted.

What actually works looks different. It’s slower, softer, and a lot more honest about what you genuinely need.
I know because I lived it. Learning to do things differently didn’t just change how I felt day to day. It changed my relationship with myself and thereby my relationship with life itself.

If you’re an HSP who is tired of white-knuckling your way through life and ready to actually heal, I work with people 1:1 inside the Sensitive Soul Immersion. A six month therapeutic programme, focused on helping you heal your relationship with yourself at every level: body, nervous system, mind, and soul.
Link in bio to find out more.

The most common thing I see in HSPs who are struggling is that they’ve spent years disconnected from themselves. Overrid...
12/04/2026

The most common thing I see in HSPs who are struggling is that they’ve spent years disconnected from themselves. Overriding what they feel and pushing through what they need. Always trying desperately to fit into a pace and a world that was never designed for them.

And when you’ve been doing that for long enough, you stop being able to hear yourself fully. I know this because I lived it. Chronic stress and stress-induced illness was my body sending signals I didn’t know how to listen to.

What brought me back into alignment wasn’t trying harder. It was learning to come home to myself. Through the body and the nervous system. And to reclaim all the parts of me I’d learned to abandon.

That’s the work I now do with clients in the Sensitive Soul Immersion. Six months of deep, one-to-one therapeutic work where we get underneath the exhaustion, the overwhelm, the physical symptoms, and the self-doubt, and heal what’s actually driving them.

This is never about by fixing you. It’s about helping you find your way back to yourself so that you can embody your whole, authentic self.

If you’re ready for this kind of deeper work, see the link in bio to find out more and apply.

There’s a particular kind of tired that most HSPs know too well. Not just physically tired, but tired of holding yoursel...
09/04/2026

There’s a particular kind of tired that most HSPs know too well. Not just physically tired, but tired of holding yourself together. Tired of explaining yourself and feeling like everyone else got a manual for life and you never received your copy.

If you’re at the point where you know something needs to change but you don’t want another surface level fix, the Sensitive Soul Immersion might be what you’ve been looking for. This deep, holistic, one to one work over six months is designed to help you regulate your highly sensitive nervous system, reconnect with all parts of yourself, release the unhelpful patterns you’ve been holding (yes the people-pleasing, perfectionism and self-criticism) and reclaim your true self. Link in my bio to find out more. 💜

Healing as an HSP isn’t about learning to cope better with a life that doesn’t work for you. It’s about rebuilding your ...
07/04/2026

Healing as an HSP isn’t about learning to cope better with a life that doesn’t work for you. It’s about rebuilding your relationship with yourself from the inside out.

When you get the right support, change becomes possible that no amount of willpower or self-help could ever achieve. The body can learn to settle and the inner critic can take a back seat. You can start living your life like it was actually made for you.

The Sensitive Soul Immersion is a six month 1:1 programme of deep, personalised work for HSPs who are done surviving and ready to actually reclaim their lives and themselves. Link in bio to apply. 💙​​​​​​

The hard part isn’t the sensitivity itself. It’s that you’ve spent so long being told you shouldn’t feel this way that y...
03/04/2026

The hard part isn’t the sensitivity itself. It’s that you’ve spent so long being told you shouldn’t feel this way that you’ve never learned how to actually live with it.

Your nervous system isn’t the problem. The lack of support is.

But sensitivity, when it’s understood and supported, stops being a burden and starts being what it always was.

A depth of experience, an attunement to others, a connection to something larger than everyday life. You don’t need to be less sensitive. You need to learn how to take care of yourself. 💖

Comment CALM for my free nervous system guide.

There’s a particular kind of exhaustion that comes with being a highly sensitive person who has spent years trying to ke...
29/03/2026

There’s a particular kind of exhaustion that comes with being a highly sensitive person who has spent years trying to keep up with a world that wasn’t designed for you.

It’s what happens when a finely tuned nervous system has been running on overdrive for so long that it’s started to affect your body, your relationships and even your sense of self.

I know this because I lived it. And I also know that it doesn’t have to be this way.

What I’ve seen, in my own healing and in 15 years of working with sensitive people, is that recovery isn’t about pushing through or learning more coping techniques.

It’s about getting to the root. The body that never learned it was safe. The nervous system that never got to rest. The wounds that never had the right conditions to heal. The self that got lost somewhere along the way.

When you work at all four levels - body, nervous system, mind and soul - things change in a way that no amount of willpower or positive thinking ever could. You stop managing your sensitivity and you start living authentically from it.

If you’re a highly sensitive person dealing with constant stress, overwhelm or feeling disconnected from yourself, you’re in the right place.

Follow for content that actually understands the HSP experience, and comment CALM to receive my free nervous system guide for a gentle place to start.

If you’re highly sensitive, tough days can feel like evidence that something is fundamentally wrong with you.Your nervou...
27/03/2026

If you’re highly sensitive, tough days can feel like evidence that something is fundamentally wrong with you.

Your nervous system processes everything more deeply and a difficult conversation or tension you picked up in a room can land differently when you feel everything this much.

These mantras won’t fix a hard day. What they do is give you somewhere to anchor when your thoughts are spiralling and your inner critic is loud. A way to talk to yourself that doesn’t make things worse.

Save this post for the days you need it. Because on those days, you’re unlikely to remember any of this on your own.

And if tough days are happening more than they’re not, that’s worth paying attention to as well.

Follow for support and tools designed specifically for highly sensitive people, and comment CALM for my free nervous system guide.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Most people only see behaviour from a surface level and make their own judgement about what is causing it.If they don’t ...
25/03/2026

Most people only see behaviour from a surface level and make their own judgement about what is causing it.

If they don’t have an understanding of how highly sensitive people experience the world they might see overreaction instead of a nervous system that never learned safety. They might interpret cancelling plans as flakey instead of a desperate need for rest. They most likely don’t see that physical symptoms are actually years of unprocessed stress finding the only expression they can.

When you’ve been told your whole life that you’re too much, too sensitive, too intense, it’s hard to trust that anyone is actually going to see you differently. That the thing you’ve been trying to fix about yourself might not be broken at all.

This is why HSP-informed therapy is so important. It’s not motivated by teaching you to cope like everyone else. It’s about helping you to understand and support yourself at the most fundamental level. Your sensitive nervous system, your unique patterns, your personal history and your body’s intelligence are not problems to be fixed. They are invitations to meet and care for yourself.

After working with sensitive people for a long time I genuinely believe that being seen, as we really are, is the key to healing. Real change happens in relationship, with someone who genuinely understands the HSP experience and knows how to work with it, without labelling or trying to ”fix” it.

This is exactly what The Sensitive Soul Journey is based on. A 12-week group programme for HSPs who are done wrestling with their sensitivity and ready to actually understand it, work with it, and build a life that honours it.

Inside we work with your nervous system, your patterns, and your relationship with yourself, in a container that’s built for people who feel everything deeply.

We start on Monday, there’s 1 space remaining.
If this sounds like what you’ve been looking for, the link to find out more is in my bio.

If you’re a highly sensitive person, you’ve probably spent significant time with people trying to influence you to be le...
23/03/2026

If you’re a highly sensitive person, you’ve probably spent significant time with people trying to influence you to be less sensitive, toughen up, tolerate more, be less inconvenient etc etc.

But I’m here to influence you to embrace who you are without apologies. To learn to trust yourself, deeply and unquestionably.

My hope is for all HSP’s to know that who they are is not a problem to manage. By learning to regulate your sensitive nervous system and give yourself the care and compassion you need, your sensitivity can honestly become your greatest gift.

If you’re tired of navigating an insensitive world and ready to forge your own path, one that truly works for you, the Sensitive Soul Journey 12 week group programme is developed especially for you.

Using my unique framework you will learn to:

Regulate your highly sensitive nervous system and learn to feel safe in your body

Reconnect with the parts of yourself you may have neglected or leaned to hide to accommodate others

Release painful patterns and internalised shame and criticism

Reclaim your true self and learn to live in alignment with your values and purpose

I have 1 space left. We start on Monday. I hope you’ll join us! Link in bio

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