Coaching for Highly Sensitive Leaders Ready to Redefine Midlife
Redefine Midlife. Reclaim Your Power
One moment you’re the quiet star of the show, the next minute you’re the “old” person overwhelmed by the noise and pace of constant change. If you're highly sensitive, this transition can feel particularly intense.
This isn't a crisis. It's a calling.
It's a potent moment between 35 to 55 when a new creative current stirs beneath the surface. As a highly sensitive person, you may be feeling this shift more acutely than others. Your deep intuition is trying to tell you something important. You may not have the words for it yet, but you know something's shifting.
For sensitive souls, midlife isn't a time to fade or retreat from overstimulation. It's a time to awaken to your gifts and find sustainable ways to thrive. And it's the perfect moment to have a coach who understands your unique wiring by your side.
Midlife callings for highly sensitive people typically have recognizable themes.
Career: You're feeling the urge to pivot toward work that honors your values and sensitivity, perhaps something more meaningful, with better boundaries, or in an environment that doesn't drain your energy.
Creativity: You long to express your rich inner world, to finish that book, explore an artistic vision, or reignite the creative part of yourself that's been overwhelmed by life's demands.
Spirituality: Your natural depth and intuition are calling you to go deeper, connect with something larger, or create more space for reflection and inner listening.
Family & Relationships: Your heightened sensitivity knows time is precious, and you want to be more present with the people who matter most.
Coaching Through Midlife
My role as your coach is to help you work with your sensitivity, not against it. Together we'll identify what's calling your attention while honoring your need for processing time, reimagine your next chapter with clarity and creativity at a sustainable pace, experiment with real-life changes that protect your energy and amplify your strengths, and create accountability, with gentle consistency rather than overwhelming pressure.
What might change? Your career path to something more aligned. Your pace to something more sustainable. Your priorities to honor what truly matters. Your sense of meaning as you embrace your depth as a gift. You—as you step into your power as a sensitive person.
Why This Season Matters
Our lives are longer than ever. Midlife is no longer the beginning of the end. It's the start of something rich and powerful, especially for sensitive people who have spent decades learning to navigate a world that wasn't designed for them.
Many of my highly sensitive clients want to shape a legacy that honors their deep values and guides those coming after them. Your sensitivity isn't something to overcome—it's your superpower waiting to be fully expressed.
This is your time to lay the foundation for the next two decades and beyond, building a life that works with your nature, not against it.
Working Together
Here's how it works: Contact me via the web-form below to set up a time to video chat. I understand you will likely need time to process, so I'll also send you an agreement to review before our session—no pressure, just clarity about what we'd be creating together.
If we both feel aligned after about 30 minutes of talking, we'll discuss the next steps at whatever pace feels right for you. Three month packages for nine sessions are $1,300 when paid in full, which allows for the deeper, more gradual work that sensitive people often prefer. I also offer individual sessions at $150 for those who want to ease in slowly.
Hi, I’m Kay
I'm an International Coach Federation Professional Certified Coach who deeply understands the highly sensitive experience. I've been in this business for about 10 years, and I've had the privilege of coaching many sensitive souls from across industries, sectors, and walks of life.
My work is informed by the latest research on coaching and high sensitivity, along with ancient wisdom traditions that honor depth and intuition. Prior to coaching I worked in development, communications, and program management—environments where I learned firsthand how sensitivity can be both a challenge and a tremendous asset.
One of my greatest joys is to coach people toward their dreams while honoring their unique nervous system and processing style. As you may have guessed, I'm both middle-aged and highly sensitive myself. Learn more
Testimonials
One of the themes that I grasped as [Kay and I ] worked together is that life is about process. Too often, I want to make a decision about something, such as "who I want to be" and then be done with it. But this isn't reality. I am constantly evolving and changing. I will hold on to core values and characteristics that we identified, but am more comfortable with the idea of venturing out into the unknown and exploring. Coming into coaching, I wanted to "figure out" what I was to do next year. I've since learned (or re-learned?) that it's ok to live with ambiguity and to enjoy the journey. What I end up doing is not as important as living by my values.
Professor
Kay has provided a safe supportive space for me to work through issues impacting my effectiveness. She's helped me build confidence in my own ability to come up with solutions by prompting me to explore viable options in an encouraging and questioning way.
Technology Professional
Coaching with Kay was empowering. I got the opportunity to create together with my coach, a vision of what I wanted to accomplish and where I wanted to go. The process of coaching exposed the subtleties of the influence of my “subconscious” on my present life, and through that process, small but practical and useful changes were added to begin the journey towards my destination. The best part was getting a glimpse of how I could tap into myself and my surroundings to empower my transformative journey.
Research Scientist
COACHING, PSYCHOTHERAPY, AND CONSULTING
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE?
Typically the difference between a coach and a therapist is that coaches focus on moving forward toward desired change, with an emphasis on “what,” such as what is keeping you from making this change and what do you need to move forward? Psychotherapists and mental health care practitioners focus on healing the wounds of the past, with an emphasis on “why,” such as why do I feel so much anxiety, and why can’t I get out of bed? Both practices utilizing knowledge of human behavior, motivation, behavioral change, and interactive counseling techniques, and there can be some overlap, but as a coach I am ethically bound to tell you when we have crossed over into territory where I don’t have training.
People who seek coaching are generally in good health, or already under the care of a mental health provider, and want to improve and deepen their relationship with their inner guidance to function at a higher level. In contrast, psychotherapy is a health care service people seek out to restore their emotional selves back to baseline health and frequently reimbursable by insurance. It is not uncommon for my HSP clients to work with both a coach and a therapist, and this collaboration often produces the most profound results.
Consultants are experts in a particular field who you hire to help you solve specific problems. They focus on the word “how,” such as here’s how you do this. A coach will never presume to be an expert on your life and will not provide consultative advice unless otherwise agreed on.
ETHICS
Coaches are not subject to government oversight. As a commitment to my clients and my integrity I keep my accreditation up-to-date and adhere to the International Coaching Federation's Code of Ethics.
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