6 Ways Julie Bjelland, LMFT, Supports Highly Sensitive People
When life feels loud and feelings run deep, it isn’t that you’re doing sensitivity “wrong.” It’s that your nervous system needs different support avenues. It requires a clear understanding, gentle rewiring, and a community that gets you.
Julie Bjelland, LMFT, is a licensed psychotherapist specializing in highly sensitive and neurodivergent individuals. She provides support through:
- self-paced free webinars,
- step-by-step courses that change how your brain responds,
- group spaces that hold and normalize your experience, and
- practical help for living and working with sensitivity, not without it.
This post shares exactly how Julie Bjelland supports Highly Sensitive People toward calmer, fuller lives and then points you to the exact resources to get started.
1) Understand your anxiety, then reduce it with repeatable practice
Many HSPs discover anxiety not as a personality flaw but as a nervous-system response where you notice more, feel more, and your brain speeds up to process it all.
When you understand why you’re reactive, the shame melts, and you can start using targeted practices that actually change how you respond.
Julie’s approach pairs explanation and practice. She helps HSPs learn the brain-based reasons anxiety shows up for them (that’s validating), and then gives step-by-step tools to train the nervous system so those anxious spikes happen less often.
For many people, this combination reduces panic, rumination, and the “always on” feeling within weeks.
Try these resources:
- High Sensitivity & Anxiety (Free Masterclass) — learn the ins and outs of the trait and why anxiety hits harder in HSPs.
- Brain Training for the Highly Sensitive Person (Online Course) — an 8-week self-paced program of practical, neuroscience-informed exercises to lower reactivity and soothe overwhelming emotions.
2) Learn boundaries that protect your energy and practice self-compassion while you do it
For HSPs, saying no often feels like stepping on someone else’s toes. So the boundary work that sticks is the kind that begins inside with clear values, small experiments, and language that feels authentic (not cold).
When boundaries are taught alongside compassion, they stop being “armor” and start being the soil where your needs and relationships thrive.
Julie’s material frames boundaries as a self-care practice, not a moral failing, and gives scripts and micro-steps HSPs can actually use in real conversations. That inner work (identity + compassion) is what makes boundary practice sustainable.
Try these resources:
- How to Set Healthy Boundaries & Why It’s Essential for Wellness (Free Masterclass) — Learn short, HSP-specific strategies and sample scripts.
- Blooming Brilliantly (Online Course) — deeper identity and self-compassion work that supports firm, kind boundaries from the inside out. (Often paired with Brain Training for maximum outcomes.)
3) Regulate sensory overload so your body and mind can rest
Overwhelm isn’t just “too many thoughts.” For sensitive nervous systems, it’s sensory overload, emotional contagion, and small stresses stacking up until you’re exhausted.
Practical regulation involving small daily practices and environmental shifts prevents those stacks from turning into shutdown or meltdown.
Julie Bjelland’s resources help HSPs identify overload clearly and share concrete routines such as grounding, micro-breaks, sleep techniques and sensory adjustments.
The goal is not to avoid life but to reduce the background noise so your strengths can stand out.
Try these resources:
- Navigating Sensory Overload (Free Masterclass & Online Course) — what overload looks like for HSPs and exact fixes to try at home and work.
- The HSP Toolbox (Course) — a practical collection of daily tools to keep your nervous system calm and balanced.
4) Rebuild your relationship with sensitivity; from shame to strength
When you start to treat your sensitivity as information instead of a liability, everything shifts: you make career decisions that fit, you stop shrinking in relationships, and you steward your energy like the asset it is.
That shift requires both knowledge and practice with stories that normalize you, exercises that build self-kindness, and stepwise challenges to increase confidence.
Your Self-Discovery Journey course and Julie’s free self-compassion tools work together here: the course gives the deeper curriculum on identity and purpose, and the free practices give immediate, calming wins you can use between modules.
Together, they help HSPs replace self-criticism with steady self-support.
Try these:
- Your Self-Discovery Online Course — an 8-week deep dive into accepting and using sensitivity as a guiding strength and uncovering your true self.
- Free Self-Compassion Techniques & Quick Calming Guide — immediate exercises you can use when overwhelm hits.
5) Find a safe community where your sensitivity is an advantage, not a problem
Progress is easier when you’re surrounded by people who understand how sensitivity shows up.
Community shortens the path from insight to habit through prompts, shared experience, live events, and smaller support groups that make practising new skills less lonely and more consistent.
Julie Bjelland’s Sensitive Empowerment Community is built for that purpose. It’s a moderated, HSP-friendly space with themed subgroups so you can join the smaller circle that fits your phase of life or focus.
For many HSPs, finding this kind of consistent belonging is what keeps the new tools in place.
6) Start & Grow a Heart-Led Online Business
Many HSPs feel called to create businesses that align with their values, but traditional business advice often feels overwhelming or pushy.
Through personal experience and professional expertise, Julie Bjelland provides guidance tailored to sensitive entrepreneurs, highlighting practical tips and techniques to grow their businesses in a sustainable, heart-led way.
The focus is to honour sensitive needs, not ignore them.
Resources to explore:
- Growing a Heart-Centered Business (free masterclass) – An introduction to running a business that supports your energy and values.
- How to Grow a Heart-Centered Online Business You Love (8-week online course) – A deeper dive into building an online business with sensitivity and purpose.
Where to Begin When You’re Starting Out
- Pick one free masterclass that speaks to your current needs (anxiety, boundaries, sensory overload, or tools to help sensitive people thrive).
- Add one focused online course (Brain Training for anxiety; The HSP Toolbox for daily regulation; or Blooming Brilliantly for identity & boundaries).
- Join the Sensitive Empowerment Community to practice with others and keep momentum.
Final Thoughts on How Julie Bjelland Supports Highly Sensitive People
Sensitivity isn’t a problem to fix. It’s a wiring to understand and steward. Julie Bjelland’s work creates a compassionate, science-infused path to help HSPs go from “why does this keep happening?” to “here’s what calms me, and here’s how I show up differently.”
Whether you’re looking to reduce anxiety, strengthen boundaries, balance your nervous system, connect with others, or even start a meaningful business, Julie has created tools to support you along the way.
If you’ve ever felt like the world is “too much,” know that you don’t have to figure it out alone. With the right strategies and support, high sensitivity can become the source of your greatest strength and joy.
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With love and kindness,
