132: Tools for the Highly Sensitive Person with Allison Lefkowitz, LMFT

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Join me in a laughter-filled conversation with Allison Lefkowitz, author of “The Highly Sensitive Person’s Toolkit: Everyday Strategies for Thriving in an Overstimulating World,” and one of the best resources for highly sensitive individuals. Allison is a licensed marriage and family therapist in private practice in New York City who specializes in working with highly sensitive people (HSPs).

Topics discussed in this episode:

• What it means to be Highly Sensitive (8:18)
• Areas where Highly Sensitive Persons (HSPs) struggle (9:30)
• How to differentiate an empath versus an HSP (10:16)
• Self-Advocacy and Self Parenting: the first of the nine Core Skills for HSPs (13:26)
• The Self-Advocacy and Self Parenting Skill Set (14:51)
• The *5 Different Sensitive Styles (23:19)
• What has surprised Allison the most in her work with HSPs (30:02)

Resources:

Allison’s website: http://almft.com/

Allison’s email: [e-mail]

The Highly Sensitive Person’s Toolkit: http://almft.com/highly-sensitive-persons-toolkit-book/

*Resource for the 5 different sensitive styles: Living With Intensity: Understanding the Sensitivity, Excitability, and the Emotional Development of Gifted Children, Adolescents, and Adults,

edited by Susan Daniels and Michael Piechowski