HSP Coach - Highly Sensitive Persons

Supporting your growth journey

 

I’m Joanne Ostler, a fellow Highly Sensitive (HSP) and a certified HSP coach.

I love helping other HSPs learn about and accept themselves more so they can feel calmer, more at ease, more fulfilled, and more comfortable day-to-day.

Having a coach is like having a trusted thinking partner who will help you navigate your way through challenges in this increasingly complex and unpredictable world.

Joanne Ostler, certified HSP coach

Does any of this resonate with you?

  • Are you easily overwhelmed by sensory stimuli (e.g. loud sounds, strong smells, bright lights, coarse fabrics)?
  • Do you get rattled when you have a lot to do in a short period of time?
  • Does your sensitivity make you wonder if maybe there’s something wrong with you?
  • Have others called you “ultra-sensitive”, like it’s a problem that you should just get over?
  • Do you often feel like you don’t belong, like you’re an outsider, even in your own family?
  • Have you been wondering whether being an HSP might explain why you feel the way you do?
 

If so, you’re in the right place.

And I have some wonderful news for you: there’s nothing wrong with you.

You may simply be part of the 15-20% of the population who have the Highly Sensitive Persons (HSP) trait - also known as Sensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS).

 

How is HSP coaching different from typical coaching?

It’s deeper and more personalised. Quite often, with a typical (non-HSP aware) coach the process is much more transactional, superficial and task focused. For example: write up your actions, and do them, or write up your limiting beliefs, challenge them, and you’ll change. Yes, while these ideas MAY or may NOT be part of YOUR coaching journey, in my experience, HSPs need a deeper and bespoke process that respects your process. This may mean we use different tools, we work at a different pace, we notice when you need space and grace, or when you are spiraling in (for example) overwhelm, triggers, procrastination, over-anaylusis and so on.

In our work, we will weave together working on your coaching goals AND your personal healing needs, in a way that will be entirely unique to you.

It’s very, very personal. My aim is to offer a really safe space. One of my gifts is my ability to really “see” my clients and I attune with them, and that helps my clients to lean into difficult spaces and to start to have the courage to see their true selves, not their masks, nor the personality strategies they have applied as a way of surviving in the world (and thank goodness they did).

HSP coaching
 

If you’re curious to dive deeper into HSP, feel free to download my Free HSP ebook. It is a summary of Key Facts you might like to read at your leisure. Click here.

Finding out whether or not you’re an HSP could be helpful for your self-awareness and it could have implications on your career and life. My life work and evolving purpose is about empowering others by deepening inner awareness to find clarity and inspiration and help create a better and gentler world.

Interested to learn a little more more about Vertical Development or how I often use the Enneagram as a fast-track tool for development?

Or check out the FAQs for more information.

Brief Summary of Key Facts about HSP

A gift for you.

 

MY TOOLKIT INCLUDES:

Vertical Development:

  • Certified Global Leadership Profile Coach and Debriefer (Global Leadership Associates)

  • Growth Edge Coaching: Conversations at the Growing Edge and Dancing at the Edge

  • Immunity to Change

Deepening Self-Awareness

  • The Narrative Enneagram (Completed all four core programmes and their Enneagram Typing course for Coaches)

  • Gallup Strengths

  • StandOut Strengths (Marcus Buckingham)

  • Love + Work Leader (Marcus Buckingham)

  • MBTI (Certified by the MBTI Company)

  • Highly Sensitive Persons (Certified by Dr Elaine Aron’s organisation hsperson.com)

Coaching

  • Professionally Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coach Federation

  • Results Coaching Systems (Now Neuroleadership Institude) - Level 3 certified

  • Somatics and Mindfulness Mastery

  • I also participate in regular coaching peer superivison and coaching maturity sessions. This is something I think very important for any and all coaches because it not only is a space to explore ideas, trends, challenges, new tools but is somewhere to check on coaching ethics and coach wellbeing.

Careers

  • Graduate Certificate of Career Development (AUT)

  • Professional Member of CDANZ (for nearly 20 years ending 2022)

  • Considerable experience with a wide range of career development assessments, job search and career strategies

Other courses include

  • Interpersonal Neurobiology (Dr Dan Seigel - completed comprehesive course); Self-compassion (Dr Kristen Neff); ACT (Acceptance Commitment Therapy - course with Dr Russ Harris); Emotional Agility; Positive Intelligence (Level One course completed); Active Hope Training.

 

CLIENT PRAISE

‘Jo has guided me on a journey that has not only been a joy but also a huge learning about myself as an HSP. 

After our calls I always felt like I could do and be anything! An unforgettable experience, thank you.’

- SP 

I felt like I was overly sensitive to everything and didn’t know how to move forward.

I started coaching because I felt stuck in my personal life and professional role. I felt like I was overly sensitive to everything and didn’t know how to move forward. I was deeply dissatisfied with everything in my life and didn’t know who I was anymore. It was very difficult for me to open up and I was aware I was selectively revealing odd layers of myself, a little here and a little there. I had decided I would be open to what was suggested even if I had reservations about what I was doing. My feeling was, nothing else I had tried was working, I needed to be open to alternatives. What did I have to lose by trying? 

What surprised me most was the rapport we built so quickly. My willingness to trust you. I broke through that brick wall. I realised I was ok, that life was ok, that I actually like the adventure and I was enjoying the long overdue acknowledgement of the work I had done and the knowledge and skills I have. 

What’s next? Exciting isn’t it! Things are looking good. With your help I gained the courage to follow my intuition again and trust it. Jo, you have also guided me in a way no one has been able to. I never resented you prodding me for an answer when normally I would probably have shut down. There was a little humorous recognition in myself when I became aware you were asking me the same thing in slightly different ways. I find it hard to put into words what the past months have been like: painful, exciting, confusing, frustrating, insightful and bizarre are a few. And how instrumental you have been getting me through to the other side. It is not an exaggeration to say I think you went above and beyond what was expected. All I can say is, the universe works in mysterious ways and I’m glad I followed my hunch to contact you.

- FT August 2020