Erin Smith

Therapy for Highly Sensitive People (HSPs) & Emotional Overwhelm

HSP-Informed Therapy for Women & Young Adults

Erin supports Highly Sensitive People (HSPs) who feel deeply, notice subtle changes around them, and can become easily overwhelmed by emotional, relational, or sensory input. You may need more time alone to recover, absorb other people's moods, become overstimulated in busy environments, or wonder why experiences that seem manageable for others can leave you completely depleted.

As a neurodivergent therapist herself, Erin understands what it can feel like to move through a world that doesn't always accommodate the way you experience it. Her approach helps clients understand their sensitivity, recognize what overwhelms their nervous system, and develop boundaries, routines, and ways of responding that honour their needs rather than constantly pushing beyond their capacity.

Who Erin Supports

Erin works with women and young adults who experience the world intensely and may become overwhelmed more quickly than the people around them. Her clients often include:

• Highly Sensitive People (HSPs): Supporting people who feel deeply, notice subtle emotional or environmental changes, and become easily overwhelmed by sensory stimulation, conflict, busy environments, or other people's emotions.

• Women Experiencing Sensory & Emotional Overwhelm: Support for women who frequently feel overstimulated, emotionally flooded, depleted after social interaction, or in need of significant alone time to recover and reset.

• Highly Sensitive People Navigating Burnout: Helping clients recognize when constantly pushing through overstimulation, emotional demands, work, school, or relationships has exceeded their capacity and begin building a more sustainable way of living.

• Neurodivergent Adults & Teens: Supporting ADHD and autistic clients with emotional regulation, sensory needs, self-understanding, burnout, and the experience of navigating environments that may not accommodate how their brains work.

Young Adults Navigating Identity & Transition: Support through post-secondary education, career beginnings, changing relationships, independence, and the challenge of making major life decisions while learning to trust yourself.

Erin enjoys helping women understand their sensitivity in a new way. High sensitivity, sometimes described as Sensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS), isn’t something that needs to be “fixed.” Therapy can help you better understand how you experience the world, recognize what your nervous system needs, and create ways of living that don’t repeatedly push you beyond your capacity.

Behind the Bio: The Human Behind the Therapist

(Because yes, therapists are humans too—coffee-loving, podcast-bingeing, deep-feeling humans!)

A Comfort Food Favourite: Perogies!!! Piled high with sour cream, crispy bacon, and a sprinkle of chives.

A Highly Recommended Read: Magic Hour by Kristin Hannah (or honestly, anything by her—she’s just that good).

A Go-To Way to Unwind: Couch, cuddles, dog, partner, and an Ozark binge—it doesn’t get better than that.

Articles by Erin Smith

Erin writes about Highly Sensitive People (HSPs), nervous system overload, emotional overwhelm, neurodivergence, burnout, sensory processing, and how women can work with—not against—their highly sensitive nervous systems.

Most Read Articles: 

→ When Everything Feels Like Too Much: Tools For Highly Sensitive Nervous Systems

→Am I Codependent Or Just Highly Sensitive?

→Why Life Transitions Feel Harder For Highly Sensitive People

→What It Really Means To Be A Highly Sensitive Person

→ Nervous System Overload in Highly Sensitive People

→ Why Do I Need So Much Time Alone? | Highly Sensitive Person