Are You Highly Sensitive?
Are you an Orchid, sensitive to your environment and beautiful when allowed to flourish? Do you have a rich inner life and vivid dreams? Are you conscientious, highly intuitive, and sensitive to noise, pain, and others’ emotions?
If so, you are probably a highly sensitive person (HSP). Twenty percent of people are born with this trait. Young and old, across gender, race, and even species (documented in over 100 species.)
Is sensitivity impacting and controlling you or your family? Are you experiencing chaos, stress, overwhelm, anxiety, hopelessness?
It's time you know that high sensitivity is a superpower...one that you can harness in yourself or your child when you practice the hsp FIVE TO THRIVE with Alane Freund, LMFT
Learn to appreciate being highly sensitive and explore the latest scientific research on your superpower through workshops, consultation, and speaking engagements with Alane Freund, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (Lic. LMFT36077), and expert consultant on the innate trait of high sensitivity.
Alane Freud, MS, MA, LMFT
Through two and a half decades as a therapist, Alane Freund, MS, MA, LMFT, (Lic. #36077) has helped youth and families focus on solutions through psychotherapy and consultation. Working closely with Dr. Elaine Aron, Ms. Freund has developed and implemented programs for highly sensitive people, children, families, and clinicians who serve them in her California therapy and team-building practice, Heart and Mind Equine. An Advanced Certified Consultant on high sensitivity, she also holds Masters’ degrees in clinical psychology and school counseling. Ms. Freund speaks and teaches about highly sensitive people around the world. She specializes in families, including alternative families, and especially those navigating the innate trait of high sensitivity. A skilled facilitator and therapist, an HSP herself, and the parent of a highly sensitive teen, she teaches workshops, offers consultation, and leads groups and retreats, including the HSPs & Horses retreats in northern California with Elaine Aron, Ph.D. Ms. Freund is on faculty at Kripalu in Massachusetts and 1440 Multiversity in California as well as teaching at California Institute for Psychotherapy and the California Institute of Integral Studies in California.
Is this you?
Are you easily overwhelmed by such things as bright lights, strong smells, coarse fabrics, or sirens nearby?
Do you get rattled when you have a lot to do in a short amount of time?
Do you make a point of avoiding violent movies and TV shows?
Do you need to withdraw during busy days, into bed or a darkened room or some other place where you can have privacy and relief from the situation?
Do you make it a high priority to arrange your life to avoid upsetting or overwhelming situations?
Do you notice or enjoy delicate or fine scents, tastes, sounds, or works of art?
Do you have a rich and complex inner life?
When you were a child, did your parents or teachers see you as sensitive or shy?
