Reclaiming Your Strengths as a Highly Sensitive Person

• This is an in-person conversation event with audience Q&A. You can also register for the livestream.
• Books are available to add to your order at checkout.

CIIS alum and licensed psychotherapist April Snow has worked with thousands of Highly Sensitive People (HSPs) around the world in her clinical practice and popular workshops. Most have been told they’re “too sensitive,” but April believes that sensitivity isn’t a problem to be solved; it’s something you’re born with and a gift that can lead to a more engaged, fulfilling, joyful life if you know how to live in alignment with your unique needs.

Join April, for a conversation exploring her practical and hopeful approach to helping Highly Sensitive People thrive. An HSP herself, April is intimately aware of both the struggles and strengths of being a big feeler and deep thinker, and how it impacts your identity, daily life, work, and relationships. Drawing from her lived experience, community connections, and the three-part framework she uses in her therapy practice, April shares tools to help you accept your sensitivity rather than try to "fix" it. She discusses how to recognize your high sensitivity, tend to your overwhelmed nervous system, nurture your inner world, and reframe sensitivity as a strength. She also shares how to support Highly Sensitive Children (HSCs).

Whether you identify as a Highly Sensitive Person, or you’re supporting clients who are, discover essential frameworks for HSPs to embrace their big feelings and live by their own rules.

April Snow, LMFT, is a licensed psychotherapist, author, and consultant. She specializes in working with highly sensitive people to help calm the storm of overload, guilt, and self-doubt to allow their innate sensitive strengths to shine through. Deeply committed to changing the narrative of what it means to be highly sensitive, April supports HSPs around the world through her Sensitive Circles community, Sensitive Sessions workshops, and Sensitive Stories podcast. In addition to Big Feelings, Big Joy she has written Find Your Strength: A Workbook for the Highly Sensitive Person.

April holds a Master’s Degree in Integral Counseling Psychology and is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California where she lives with her wife. In her free time she enjoys being at the beach, curled up in bed, on her yoga mat, spending quality time with her nieces and nephews, or seeing live music.

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Recording Policy
Ticket holders will have access to an ad-free replay of the event for one month after the live event, after which unlimited viewing with ads will be available. Portions of the audio will also be released on our podcast. Only registered ticket holders who choose to watch live can participate in the chat and Q&A.

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