Overstimulation
Therapy for Sensory Overload and Overstimulation
Noise, light, crowds, back-to-back meetings, one more question at the end of a long day. For some nervous systems, ordinary input adds up until there is no capacity left.
What Overstimulation Feels Like
If several of these sound familiar, you are in exactly the right place. None of them need to be severe to be worth bringing to a session.
- Needing silence and darkness after a normal day
- Irritability that arrives with no obvious cause
- Shutting down or going blank in busy environments
- Dreading events you genuinely want to attend
- Recovery time that keeps getting longer
How We Work on This Together
Mapping Your Inputs
We identify which specific inputs cost you most, because it is rarely everything. It is a handful of predictable things.
Pacing the Week
Then we design a realistic rhythm: what gets scheduled next to what, and where recovery has to be protected.
Recovering Faster
We build a personal set of practices that actually reset you, instead of the ones that are supposed to.
Approaches I Draw From
- HSP-informed treatment planning
- Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Boundary and pacing work
Sessions are held online over a confidential, HIPAA-compliant platform and are available to residents anywhere in North Carolina.
Questions People Ask
- Is this related to being an HSP?
- Often, yes. You can try our short self-check on the Therapy for Highly Sensitive People page, and we can go through it together during your consultation.
- Do you diagnose sensory processing conditions?
- I focus on therapeutic support rather than sensory processing evaluations.
- How do sessions work?
- All sessions are held online, over a confidential, HIPAA-compliant platform, and are available to residents anywhere in North Carolina.