Partnering with High Sensitive Person (HSP) Clients

Virtual Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Programme

Programme Outline

With 15-20% of the population being HSPs, the chances are you are either a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) yourself, are perhaps in a close relationship with one, could be friends with another, maybe your related to an HSP family member, and you could very easily work with clients who are HSPs, whether they realise it yet or not.

Develop your awareness of the HSP personality trait, how it may show up in your clients, and how best to work with HSPs in this programme. Together we’ll explore what matters when you work with HSPs, ways of working deeply with HSP clients, and what to consider when coaching those who may identify as an HSP, or with having Sensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS), the trait’s scientific term; or who perhaps just see themselves, or seem to be, highly sensitive in nature.

Programme Objectives

Explain what the Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) personality trait is, and is not, busting myths about this often misunderstood way of being.
Identify how the sensitivity trait may show up in your clients and what this may mean for partnering more effectively with them.
Discover the essentials regarding cultivating trust and safety, maintaining presence, actively listening and evoking awareness.
Establish ways to work at a deeper, more impactful level with HSPs and sensitive souls through a beautiful balance of the doing and being of coaching.

Key Takeaways

Knowledge and understanding about the HSP trait and how it shows up.
Ways to work at a more impactful and meaningful level for HSP clients.
Tools and resources to support you as a coach and your sensitive clients.
Some things to consider if you yourself may be a HSP coaching, supervising and mentoring others.

Programme Format

This 2 hour online session will offer a mixture of content input, self-reflection and small/large group discussion and sharing.

Programme Tutor

Gillian Gabriel is an International Coaching Federation (ICF) Professional Certified Coach (PCC), a qualified Coaching Supervisor, Mentor Coach and coaching skills Trainer and Facilitator, and the founder of The Stars Are Aligned Coaching.

With a 26 year corporate background in leadership, Human Resources (HR) and Learning & Development (L&D), she combines her passion for mental wellbeing, humanistic psychology, personal development and growth in her personal and professional life’s work.

Gillian partners with executives, leaders and managers, L&D professionals, and coaches navigating life and work in a world not always conducive to our needs – especially the sensitive ones walking among us – to overcome the anxiety, overwhelm and self-doubt that Sensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS) can bring.

As a bibliophile and lectiophile, it’s no surprise she’s the writer of the sensitive coaches pHiloSoPhy on Substack — the vulnerable, brave and daring writing, sharing and community for Highly Sensitive People (HSPs). She’s a published poet with her poems appearing in ‘Poetry for Coaching: Transformation Through Verse’, a unique anthology bringing together the poems and stories written by coaches, counsellors and therapists.

Above all that, Gillian is a learner truly believing life is for learning, her purpose and number one value, is to learn with, from and alongside others. And, of course she is a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) and human being, being human in her life and work. Find out more about her here.

Programme Schedule

Monday 22 September 2025, 2 – 4 p.m. (London time)

Investment

£72

Note: Coach Advancement Alumni can benefit from a discounted fee of £60. Get your code by emailing lisa@coachadvancement.com.

CCEs

Participants will receive 2 ICF CCE credits for the completing this session as part of their Continuing Professional Development and to support the ICF credential renewal process!

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