Alane Freund, LMFT

11/14/2025

Highly sensitive people can get in the habit of being overstimulated, aka overaroused, more often than not. And guess what? Being overstimulated makes focus really challenging. It can even happen that your work or your work environment is what overstimulates you.

You can change this! You can thrive at work. It will take some effort and might make you wonder if it’s worth it, but IT IS. You got this. Highly Sensitive People are some of the most focused people in the world—and some of the highest achieving. If you aren’t experiencing life like that, please reach out. I’d love to support you.

Now it’s time for clinicians to gather and explore the most current definitions, assessments, and interventions in working with this personality trait which is very common among therapy clients.

Come and join me to an online lecture and discussion. Students, Trainees, Associates, and Interns attend for free. Sustainable Economy: No one turned away for lack of funds.

Register here: https://alane-freund.mykajabi.com/working-with-sensitivity
November 19, Wednesday | 10-11:30am US Pacific

11/13/2025

Do you or your patients have a keen imagination, rich inner life, and vivid dreams? That might be high sensitivity. Are time alone each day and deeply intimate relationships both as essential as air? Others might call HSPs too shy or overly sensitive. HSPs sometimes wonder if it’s possible to thrive?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, you might be a highly sensitive person, or HSP—20-30% of us are.

Working with Sensitivity: Temperament, Treatment, and Alignment with Adults and Youth who are Highly Sensitive.

ℹ️ By donation in support of the Are You Highly Sensitive scholarship fund. Students, Trainees, Associates, and Interns attend for free.
📉Sustainable Economy: No one turned away for lack of funds.
📅Wednesday, November 19 | 10-11AM Pacific Time
Register here: https://alane-freund.mykajabi.com/working-with-sensitivity

11/06/2025

When the world is full of pain & suffering, it’s critical we do not allow our hearts to harden into hopelessness or depression. 💙

Join me tomorrow for Gratitude Practice in action. Get a jump start on HOLIDAY mental health. You deserve and NEED it.

November 7th, 10am US Pacific | 1 pm Eastern
An Attitude of Gratitude – HSP Tools and Topics
Only for $7 (usually $57!) — a gratitude gift to this beautiful community. 💙
https://areyouhighlysensitive.thrivecart.com/hsp-gratitude/

11/05/2025

Why gratitude? You know... at least I think it’s common knowledge by now:

A Gratitude Practice is proven to improve mental health.

Join me on Friday for Gratitude Practice in action. Get a jump start on HOLIDAY mental health. You deserve and NEED it.

Now that November is underway, please check out lots of other opportunities to join me for support and fun as we move into this winter season.

I’m always grateful to and for you. If I didn’t have a calling to be of service to our HSP community, my mental health would suffer. Let’s keep sharing that Emotional Leadership that is our birthright.

Blessings and breath (and lots of gratitude),
Alane

Why gratitude? You know... at least I think it’s common knowledge by now:

A Gratitude Practice is proven to improve mental health.

Join me on Friday for Gratitude Practice in action. Get a jump start on HOLIDAY mental health. You deserve and NEED it.

Now that November is underway, please check out lots of other opportunities to join me for support and fun as we move into this winter season.

I’m always grateful to and for you. If I didn’t have a calling to be of service to our HSP community, my mental health would suffer. Let’s keep sharing that Emotional Leadership that is our birthright.

Blessings and breath (and lots of gratitude),
Alane

HSP Tools & Topics: An Attitude of Gratitude for just $7 (usually $57!) — a gratitude gift to this beautiful community: https://areyouhighlysensitive.thrivecart.com/hsp-gratitude/

10/31/2025

How are you truly doing?

A World Mental Health Day HSP event. Enjoy the recording of Alane Freund's facilitated conversation on highly sensitive people, trauma, mental health.

10/31/2025

https://youtu.be/J6AA4ga5Tjk

Halloween in the US is our secular version of celebrating Samhain and it’s also related to the Mexican holiday, Day of the Dead. ...

10/30/2025

Gratitude practice leads our busy, thinking, noticing, and feeling brains closer to the Joy our hearts crave.

HSPs, this one’s for you 🍁
On Nov 7, join my special HSP Tools & Topics: An Attitude of Gratitude for just $7 (usually $57!) — a gratitude gift to this beautiful community.
https://areyouhighlysensitive.thrivecart.com/hsp-gratitude/

I’m always grateful for my highly sensitive community. Together, we are more resilient. Sending love to all of you💙

10/22/2025

Changing seasons teach us how healthy transitions work. The last month of summer offers a few tastes of autumn..

Now here we are in the first month of autumn, and while some places are feeling it, many locations are still seeing summer here and there.

We HSPs like to look forward and prepare for transitions, sink deeply into them so we have time and space to process them deeply, and then we have made the transition and it might take a while to get our feet solidly on the ground.

In my equine assisted therapy work, I often talk about how the horses aren’t comfortable with a person until their insides and outsides catch up to each other… until we are in alignment.

Be gentle with your sensitive self. When your insides and outsides are aligned, anxiety melts away, dread can’t take root, and a smile comes to your face as you appreciate the new view and all the opportunity it represents.

Here’s to my favorite season. I’m going to do what I can to stay grounded in the present, embracing evenness and balance, and exercising outside as much as I can.

How are you transitioning? Are you celebrating yet? Let me know in the comments.

On November 7th, I am offering a special HSP Tools and Topics in honor of Gratitude Month. Normally $57, this special gratitude price is just $7 – a little appreciation for this beautiful community. Register here: https://areyouhighlysensitive.thrivecart.com/hsp-gratitude/

10/13/2025

Your sensitivity isn’t a flaw — it’s the foundation of your strength. 💙

Last chance to join Webinar + HSP Tools & Topics for half-off!

Reclaiming Your Worth: From Undervalued Self to Unshakeable HSP
Tuesday, October 14th
Webinar: 9am US Pacific | 12pm Eastern
Discussion (HSP Tools & Topics): 10:30 am US Pacific | 1:30 pm Eastern
Register here: https://alane-freund.mykajabi.com/undervalued-self

10/13/2025

Highly Sensitive People (HSPs) have tons of empathy, and sometimes that makes us more likely to focus on the linking, or the bonding in a relationship. But what happens when you need to set a boundary or assert yourself in another way. Maybe you would just like to change the topic of conversation. In order to do so, HSPs often have to "raise their volume" literally or figuratively and that can feel uncomfortable if it's not a muscle you often flex.

Come and join us for this webinar and discussion on October 14th. Reclaiming Your Worth: From Undervalued Self to Unshakeable HSP - https://alane-freund.mykajabi.com/undervalued-self