Welcome to the Highly Sensitive Human Academy™

A central hub providing an abundance of resources and accredited courses for Highly Sensitive People all over the globe.

The HSH Academy empowers Highly Sensitive People by guiding them to step into their authentic gifts and purpose in life. What’s unique about the Highly Sensitive Human Academy is we offer a transpersonal and integrative approach to working with and supporting highly sensitive adults and children.

The academy's accredited professional training courses are aimed at supporting Highly Sensitive People to go from overwhelmed, burnt out, and stressed to feeling empowered, resilient and able to thrive in their innate gifts.

The courses and training are all based on an integrative framework – a unique transpersonal and integrative framework which encompasses eight key domains for HSP to embody in their transformation and healing.

Professional Coaching Bodies & Accreditation

The Highly Sensitive Human Academy is a recognised Coaching and Training Organisational Member of the International Association of Coaches, Therapists and Mentors (IACTM) as well as the Association of Coaching (AC). The Highly Sensitive Person Coach training is also an accredited training course approved by IACTM. Both IACTM and the Association of Coaching require the academy to adhere to a professional code of ethics. Taking the course also offers a number of coaching hours, which can contribute towards applying for coach accreditation through IACTM and offers a 12-month Associate Membership through the Association for Coaching. 

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Why choose the Highly Sensitive Human Academy?

The Highly Sensitive Human Academy offers courses and professional trainings for individuals and organizations across the globe.

The gifts of sensitivity – such as high levels of empathy, compassion as well as the ability to listen, and intuit the feelings of others, often lay hidden or dormant in Highly Sensitive People. There is usually an assumption that sensitivity is a weakness or a flaw, and those of us who are highly sensitive can internalise the message that there's 'something wrong with us' from a young age.

The HSH Academy offers professional training courses to educate and inform leaders, educators, coaches, parents, teachers, managers and other professionals on what it means to be a Highly Sensitive Person. It's crucial we reframe our understanding of sensitivity and provide resources to empower the 20% of the population who are HSP.

Research on vantage sensitivity shows us that HSP are more likely to thrive and excel in nourishing and positive environments – when offered the space in which to flourish, HSP are incredibly innovative, creative, and able to see the big picture; driven by high morals and values. Unfortunately, if the traits of high sensitivity are not understood, then we're in danger of neglecting the tremendous amount of potential that exists within HSP.

Our training courses educate professionals on how to work with Highly Sensitive People – empowering your HSP clients or employees to step into their authentic gifts and the roles they naturally thrive in. We also offer self-paced, short bundles on specific skills for HSP to implement into their lives straight away.

If you want to cultivate your own resilience, coach other Highly Sensitive People, gain awareness as a Highly Sensitive Parent, or learn how to work with Highly Sensitive Children, this academy will give you all the resources needed.

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The Highly Sensitive Human Directory

Visit our listed of qualified and certified HSP Coaches & Professionals via our directory below.

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Founder of the Academy

Jules De Vitto

Jules De Vitto, MAEd, MSc Certified Coach and Trainer for Highly Sensitive People.

Jules has a BSc in Psychology, MA in Education and MSc in Transpersonal Psychology, Consciousness and Spirituality. She is an accredited and certified Transpersonal Coach, Authentic-Self-Empowerment Facilitator, as well as an experienced trainer and educator. She works as a Transpersonal Coach Tutor as part of the 1-year certificate in Transpersonal Coaching Psychology with Alef Trust and is accredited as a Coach Trainer by the International Association for Coaches, Therapists and Mentors. She is the founder of The Highly Sensitive Human Academy — an online community that offers courses, coaching, articles and a podcast for Highly Sensitive People. She helps those who identify with the traits of high sensitivity to navigate emotional overwhelm, step into their authentic power and align with their true purpose in life. She is a published author who wrote 'Resilience: Navigating Loss in a Time of Crisis' which provides practical resources to cultivate greater resilience and find greater meaning and purpose through times of crisis. She has published her research in the peer-reviewed journal Consciousness, Spirituality & Transpersonal Psychology.

The Wider Team and Collaborators

Simone Da Costa

Teaching & Admin Support, HSP Coach, Integrative Psychotherapist

Meet Simone Da Costa who provides teaching and administrative support on the HSP Coaching Course. Simone is a certified HSP Coach, Integrative Psychotherapist, Facilitator, Author and Yoga and Meditation teacher. She is the founder of her private practice in Integrative Psychotherapy where she offers one to one psychotherapy for adults. Her training is in Core Process Psychotherapy which is the integration of Buddhist psychology and theology with Western psychodynamics and psychotherapy. Simone’s integrative approach to therapy offers a mind-body, somatic approach to traditional talk therapy. She uses the tools and teachings of mindfulness in order to help clients to build a relationship with both their mind and body and thus, take back control of their mental, physical and emotional health. Over the past eleven years, Simone’s journey towards her own personal growth and development has introduced her to multiple, alternative modalities of healing including; yoga, mindfulness, meditation and spirituality. She uses her years of personal experience and professional study to create unique, group workshops, retreats and online programs. These cover a variety of topics like emotional intelligence, stress management, self-care, mediation, personal empowerment, goal setting, femininity, self-compassion, self-love and more.

Genevieve Von Lob

Clinical Psychologist and Coach

Dr Genevieve von Lob is a clinical psychologist and parenting coach based in London. After 15 years working in Britain's National Health Service, private practice in Harley Street and inside big corporations, she published her book "Happy Parent, Happy Child: A 10-step plan for a stress-free family life" with Penguin. She also authored a parenting book "Five Deep Breaths: The Power of Mindful Parenting."

Genevieve now works as an independent psychologist providing one-on-one sessions to adults and young people. Genevieve specialises in working with Highly Sensitive People (HSP) and parents with Highly Sensitive Children (HSC). Genevieve hosts a thriving community called the HSP Revolution which offers events, workshops, a members-only newsletter, weekly inspiration, tips and challenges and access to a community hub for connection and discussions. Her work is inspired in part by the pioneering research of Dr Elaine Aron, who brought the term HSP into widespread use.

William Allen

Course Instructor and Mentor for Highly Sensitive Men

William Allen, author of Confessions of a Sensitive Man and On Being a Sensitive Man, leads the course with insights drawn from his extensive work as an advocate for HSP men. He is a certified hypnotist and brain training coach , author and advocate for HSP Men. He believes that male sensitivity is not so rare, but it can be confounding for most males living in a culture of masculine insensitivity which teaches boys and men to disconnect from their feelings and emotions. As a highly sensitive individual himself, William combines personal experience, professional expertise, and engaging storytelling to create a transformative learning experience.

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Testimonials

“After working many years as a yoga and meditation instructor along with being a clinical health coach, I began focusing specifically on working with highly sensitive people who experience anxiety. I was excited when I saw the professional training for coaching highly sensitive people, because I was already interested in holistic and integrative approaches to our health and wellbeing. This course offered me the opportunity to connect and build professional relationships with other HSP coaches, while honing my coaching skills using a transpersonal approach. It has provided me with a very practical tool box full of introspective practices I can share with my HSP clients as well as increasing my confidence in coaching. This is a great course for anyone interested in contemplative practices and learning more about the many different aspects of yourself as an individual as well as helping other HSPs do the same! ”

Daphnie Leigh, E-RYT 500, Health & Ayurvedic Lifestyle Coach for HSPs with Anxiety (www.yoiranger.com)

“Jules' coaching and workshops have left me feeling confident and able to expand my professional work as a coach. She has helped me to discover my unique message as a coach and also connect with other like-minded souls on a similar mission!”

Community Member

“I already feel a lot more confident having a clearer mental structure on the topic, knowing which tools to use for what, where I still want to work on and also some metaphors that help me value our gift of sensitivity. So thank you Jules for all this great content, this is even better than I expected and is good for me to work on myself”

Chris

“​ "I am so deeply grateful for your work Jules and that of Dr Elaine Aron. You've enabled me to not only accept my sensitivity but to really explore what my traits are telling me. I'm realizing that I am struggling to find the words to describe how I feel; my whole world seems to have opened up"”

Community Member

“Jules is wonderful in the sense that, she holds the space for everyone, honouring each person’s process, allowing the transformation to occur slowly, silently, and soothingly. She is a caring, warm and sincere person who puts her heart and soul into helping people through their self-healing”

Course Member

“The 3-Month Professional Training on Coaching Highly Sensitive People was a very professional and well-designed course. The resources were full of practical information and they were also visually appealing. I enjoyed the sense of community created between the other course members, and the live trainings were very helpful.”

Course Participant

“Jules takes the time to guide each person through their journey of self-discovery. She helped me connect with my intuition and what my soul was actually looking for”

“Before I discovered Highly Sensitive Humans and Jules' work I often felt alone in my experience. I knew I wanted to help other people similar to me - but I had no idea where to start! Since going through the content I've learned what tools I can use for all the different struggles that HSP face. I feel confident in holding space for others and most importantly I no longer feel alone in my experience as an HSP”

Adam

“I enjoyed this course tremendously. I learned a lot from taking this course with Jules De Vitto. It definitely is money well spent as it not only helps one in a professional way but also in personal self-development.”

Maggie Kelly - The Unstoppable HSP

“Jules is a wonderful teacher and has been supportive and available throughout. Before I joined the course I had no clear direction but now am firmly on the path to using my own innate gifts to be a coach with a focus around HS children. As someone who’s only recently learned that I’m highly sensitive and high sensation seeker (again a whole new revelation to me) having chance to connect with other people who also experience the world in this unique way has been amazing and extremely validating and will hopefully be ongoing. ”

Course Graduate