Dialectical Behaviour Therapy for Highly Sensitive People
DBT for Highly Sensitive People
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) can be an effective form of support for highly sensitive people (HSPs) who experience intense emotions, become easily overwhelmed or find it difficult to cope with stressful situations.
At Home Counties Therapy, we offer comprehensive DBT programmes and DBT-informed therapy that help highly sensitive individuals develop practical skills to manage emotions, navigate relationships and respond more confidently to life’s challenges.
DBT Prices Starting from £2,250 for 6 Months of DBT
About DBT FOR highly sensitive people
What Does It Mean to Be a Highly Sensitive Person?
A Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) is someone who naturally processes emotions, experiences and sensory information more deeply than others. Being highly sensitive is considered a personality trait rather than a mental health condition.
Highly sensitive people may experience:
Strong emotional responses
Feeling overwhelmed by busy or noisy environments
Increased empathy for others
Difficulty recovering from stressful situations
Sensitivity to criticism or conflict
A tendency to overthink or worry
While sensitivity can bring many strengths, it can also make everyday life feel emotionally demanding without effective coping strategies.
How DBT Helps Highly Sensitive People
DBT is designed to help individuals better understand and regulate their emotions while developing healthier ways of responding to difficult situations.
DBT focuses on helping you:
Manage overwhelming emotions
Reduce emotional reactivity
Build healthier coping strategies
Improve resilience during stressful situations
Strengthen communication and relationships
Increase self-awareness and self-acceptance
Rather than trying to change your sensitivity, DBT helps you work with it more effectively so it becomes a strength rather than a source of distress.
DBT Skills
DBT Skills for Highly Sensitive People
DBT is a practical, skills-based therapy that teaches techniques you can apply in everyday life.
Emotional Regulation
Highly sensitive people often experience emotions more intensely than others. Emotional regulation skills help you recognise emotional triggers, understand your responses and manage strong feelings in healthier ways.
Distress Tolerance
Distress tolerance skills provide practical techniques for coping with overwhelming situations without becoming emotionally flooded or reacting impulsively.
Mindfulness
Mindfulness helps you stay grounded in the present moment, reducing overthinking while increasing awareness of your thoughts, emotions and physical responses.
Interpersonal Effectiveness
Many highly sensitive people find relationships challenging due to conflict avoidance, people-pleasing or sensitivity to criticism. DBT teaches communication skills that support healthier boundaries and more balanced relationships.
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Start DBT for Highly Sensitive People
If you’re looking for practical ways to better manage overwhelming emotions and build emotional resilience, Home Counties Therapy offers personalised DBT programmes tailored to your needs.
Contact our team today to learn more about our DBT services and discover how they can help you thrive as a highly sensitive person.
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Our Dialectical Behaviour Therapy For Highly Sensitive People Pricing
Our Dialectical Behaviour Therapy packages are paid for monthly with no hidden fees or extra costs.
Please note that before starting our DBT course, we require new clients to start with an initial assessment. This is an essential step to ensuring you receive the right support and it will help us place you in a group best fit for your needs.
Please note, prices are set as of September 2025 and are subject to review annually.
If you’re interested in starting DBT online rather than in person please view our online course information here.
Adults In-Person DBT Therapy Pricing and Features
- Pre-Assessment Appointments Included
- Weekly 2 1/2 hr DBT Group
- Weekly one to one 1hr Therapy
- Phone Support
- Whatsapp Support Group Access
Adults In-Person DBT Group Only Pricing and Features
- Pre-Assessment Appointments Included
- Weekly 2 1/2 hr DBT Group
- Whatsapp Support Group Access
- Additional 1-1 therapy can be booked in addition. Prices from £60-£150
DBT Adolescent Therapy Package
- Pre-Assessment Appointments Included
- Weekly DBT Skills Group
- Weekly 1-1 Therapy with advanced DBT Therapist
- Contact us for a tailored price for you and your family
Cost per DBT Skills Training group is £100
Cost per Psychotherapy appointment is £90
Cost per DBT coaching appointment is £60
Cost per online family group is £40
DBT Adolescent Group + Family Group
- Weekly DBT Skills Group*
- Monthly Family Support Group
- Additional 1-1 therapy can be booked in addition. Prices from £60-£150
Cost per DBT Skills Training group is £100
Cost per Psychotherapy appointment is £90
Cost per DBT coaching appointment is £60
Cost per online family group is £40
*If you're having therapy elsewhere or would like to discuss a group only option in limited cases we may be able to offer group only.
Getting started
Emotional Sensitivity and Everyday Life
Being highly sensitive can affect many aspects of daily life, including work, relationships and personal wellbeing.
You may experience:
Feeling emotionally drained after social interactions
Becoming overwhelmed by busy environments
Difficulty letting go of upsetting experiences
High levels of empathy that become emotionally exhausting
Anxiety about conflict or disappointing others
DBT helps build practical skills that allow you to respond to these situations with greater confidence, flexibility and emotional balance.
Who Is DBT for Highly Sensitive People Suitable For?
DBT may be particularly helpful if you:
Feel emotions very intensely
Become easily overwhelmed by stress
Find it difficult to regulate emotional responses
Struggle with boundaries in relationships
Want practical coping skills for everyday life
Experience anxiety alongside high sensitivity
Our therapists tailor DBT to your individual experiences, helping you develop strategies that work for your unique needs.
Online DBT for Highly Sensitive People
Home Counties Therapy offers online DBT programmes, allowing you to access structured therapy from anywhere in the UK.
Online DBT may include:
One-to-one therapy sessions
Skills-based learning
Practical exercises between sessions
Ongoing therapeutic guidance
This flexible approach enables you to develop new coping skills while receiving support in a familiar and comfortable environment.
DBT as Part of Emotional Wellbeing
DBT can be used alongside other forms of therapeutic support where appropriate, helping individuals strengthen emotional resilience and improve their overall wellbeing.
It may complement:
Individual therapy
Anxiety support
Stress management strategies
Mindfulness practice
Other therapeutic approaches recommended by your clinician
Our goal is to provide personalised support that reflects your circumstances, strengths and therapeutic goals.
Client Reviews
What Our Clients Say About Our DBT Therapy
The DBT group is helpful in finding methods to allow for improvement of life experiences. I’ve found the group experience to be insightful with members sharing their personal experiences with the methods taught and how they have adapted them to make them fit to their specific needs. Making connections to the facilitators and group members dealing with difficulties and still showing up to help improve themselves is inspiring and encouraging to keeping the commitment to yourself of showing up every week. I’ve found group to be a safe space and being surrounded by supportive individuals you truly feel as if you have people in your corner and on your team building together.
Anonymous Client
I first came into contact with Home Counties Therapy two years ago and at that point was in a very dark place feeling like I didn’t have options or anywhere to turn to.
I have been seeing them on a 1.2.1 basis and have had group DBT sessions as well.
From the outset Lorna was welcoming, understanding and has helped me to get my life back on track. I’m now back in education, have a great relationship with my family and am feeling the best I ever have, this is all down to HCT guiding me along the way and encouraging me to persevere with change.
Jared
I have just completed a 6 month course of Dialectical Behavioural Therapy with Home Counties Therapy.
This course has been invaluable in providing me with skills that I did not possess before beginning the course. In particular I have found the interpersonal skills training and the distress tolerance tools to be helpful.
The trainers are compassionate and have fantastic knowledge of both the course material & the supporting psychology. They have a great way of helping every member of the group to understand the course material and apply it to our own lives. No one gets left behind.
Jackie
Through DBT and my 1-2-1 sessions I have noticed a change in myself and started to challenge my thoughts and have come to understand why I’m feeling the way I do.
My therapist has been fantastic! Home Counties has helped me a lot and I’ve got skills to set me for life I love the fact that if I am having a crisis someone is always at the end of the phone to help me get through it.
Highly recommend!
Jen
DBT has completely transformed my life, giving me the tools to cope with everyday challenges. I went from struggling to use the tools and not understanding how to utilise them and over time it has become easier and a way of life. I have my good and bad days like everyone but with the constant reminder that I have DBT to help me if I have my really bad days which pulls me through. Since using DBT I have less bad days which it takes me quicker to recover from. I recommend DBT to everyone and still to this day look at the tools to refresh my memory. I have even started using DBT with my children. Thank you to Matthew and their team for helping through a very dark time.
Anonymous Client
Being a part of the DBT Group has opened my eyes to some comforting truths: that I’m not alone in my struggles, that help and understanding is out there from peers as well as therapists, and that there are skills to learn that can help me manage the daily challenges I always seem to be facing.
I’ve found the DBT skills to be of great help in earning back competency, freedom of mind, and a healthy sense of control in my life. Having tools with which to navigate the difficulties of life, especially those created of my own mind, has opened doors for me that I felt were shut for good, and I feel the future is now manageable, and even hopeful.
Isaac B
meet the team
Meet our DBT For Highly Sensitive People Therapists
Lorna Wykes
Consultant Director
Matthew Molyneux
Senior Addiction Therapist
Tanya Dalton
Senior DBT Skills Trainer & Psychotherapist
Lindsay Riley
Senior DBT Skills Trainer & Psychotherapist
James Hansen
Senior Therapist & supervisor
Ashleigh Wykes
DBT Lead and Skills Trainer
Dan Harwood-Stamper
Senior DBT Skills Trainer and Psychotherapist
Marion Leishman
DBT Skills Trainer & Integrative Therapist
Jenna Stoodley
DBT Skills Trainer & Integrative Psychotherapist
Katy Lee
DBT Skills Trainer & Integrative Psychotherapist
Charlotte McKenzie-Cook
Lead Nurse
Emma Pomery
Clinical Manager
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Frequently Asked Questions About DBT FOR Highly sensitive people
What Would You Like To Know?
Yes. DBT can help highly sensitive people develop practical skills for managing intense emotions, coping with stress, improving relationships and responding more effectively to challenging situations.
No. High sensitivity is generally recognised as a personality trait rather than a mental health condition. However, highly sensitive people may experience anxiety, stress or emotional overwhelm that can benefit from therapeutic support.
DBT does not aim to remove your sensitivity. Instead, it helps you manage intense emotions more effectively while developing healthier coping strategies and emotional resilience.
Yes. Home Counties Therapy offers online DBT programmes across the UK, making it easy to access therapy wherever you are.
The length of therapy depends on your individual goals and circumstances. Your therapist will work with you to develop a personalised plan and review your progress throughout the programme.
Yes. DBT can be particularly beneficial for highly sensitive individuals who also experience anxiety, stress or emotional dysregulation by providing practical tools for managing emotions and building resilience.
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