Not all highly sensitive people are also introverts.
Psychologists and therapists break down the two different dimensions of temperament.
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For starters, not all introverts are homebodies, nor are they allshy wallflowers.
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Alice Shannon, LMFT, has been in private practice for twenty years.
Alice Shannon, LMFT, has been in private practice for twenty years. Her full scope psychotherapy practice is in Arcata, CA. She specializes in helping parents and school staff to understand and respond effectively to temperament-based behavior problems and concerns in children. She has worked in the temperament field in a number of capacities including in the ground breaking anticipatory guidance program through Kaiser Hospitals in the San Francisco Bay Area and with The Preventive Ounce offering education and counseling services for temperament related issues to families with infants and young children.
Her full scope psychotherapy practice is in Arcata, CA.
Jadzia Jagiellowicz, PhD, is a psychologist offering individual advising sessions for highly sensitive persons (HSPs).
She is passionate about using scientific findings to help highly sensitive persons and deeply committed to evidence-based practice.
clinical psychologist, author, and associate professor of behavioral sciences at the Ross University School of Medicine.
Even so, these two personality types are not one and the same.
Introverts go inward and retreat into their thoughts, and extroverts go outward and interact with others.
But, of course, that still leaves 30 percent.
Enter: The sensitive extroverts.
Its not good or bad information, but just useful to know.
Alice Shannon, LMFT, has been in private practice for twenty years. Her full scope psychotherapy practice is in Arcata, CA. She specializes in helping parents and school staff to understand and respond effectively to temperament-based behavior problems and concerns in children. She has worked in the temperament field in a number of capacities including in the ground breaking anticipatory guidance program through Kaiser Hospitals in the San Francisco Bay Area and with The Preventive Ounce offering education and counseling services for temperament related issues to families with infants and young children.
If you find that others are insisting on your presence (e.g., Everyone will be there!
or It would be rude not to go!
And make a point of keeping additional stimulation to a minimum whenever youaremeeting socially, she adds.
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