How do you approach therapy for intersectional sensitive people versus traditional therapy?
Each month in my free newsletter, I share an exclusive video answering a community question about holistic, intuitive, or intersectional healing.
For this first installment, I’m exploring a question I hear often:
"How do you approach therapy for intersectional sensitive people versus traditional therapy?"
This space is created for those who feel deeply, think expansively, and carry stories the world hasn’t yet learned to hold. It’s for people whose identities intersect across race, gender, queerness, neurodivergence, spirituality, and culture—those who understand that true healing is both personal and collective.
How Traditional Therapy Differs from Holistic Care
In many traditional therapy models—particularly those grounded in Eurocentric frameworks—the clinical goal has often been adaptation: learning to cope within systems as they are. This approach can be useful for some, but for intersectional sensitives, the question is not simply How do I adjust? but rather How do I live authentically in a world that was not built to honor all of who I am?
For clients with layered identities and high sensitivity, I center an approach that is holistic, relational, integrative, and culturally responsive.
Acknowledgment
We begin with acknowledgment—naming the complex interaction between the nervous system, identity, environment, and lived experience. For many, this includes the ongoing impact of systemic oppression, internalized expectations, and generational trauma. This is not pathology—it’s context. Understanding that context is essential to any meaningful clinical work.
Spirituality
Another distinction is the need to explore spirituality—even if we’ve experienced religious trauma, which many of us have. Because we see life as interconnected and can feel and perceive energy, it’s important to frame our spiritual inclinations within a healthy framework that affirms our humanity and aligns with our true nature. Spiritual exploration—generally speaking, not about endorsing one religion over another—is an essential part of healing, so we can fully accept ourselves. Healthy spirituality is a pathway that supports the further development of our intuitive awareness.
Existential issues
In my approach, a third distinction in working with intersectional sensitives is that I openly address existential issues in therapy. We discuss how systems impact the psyche. As diverse empaths and sensitives, we absorb our environment—even when that includes the socio-political climate, which is a charged energy source influencing the systems that have oppressed us. In my work with clients, we sort through and process these external energies so they can process the harm that was caused, and what happened to them, even if their reality hasn’t been affirmed. This also helps clients distinguish their own energy and return to it.
Unpacking systemic discrimination, societal expectations, and how these forces influence subconscious thoughts—and the trauma stored in the body—is another key aspect of healing I support to foster holistic mental health.
What Integrative Holistic Therapy Offers
Integrative holistic therapy with me combines depth psychology and intuition, allowing us to explore what lies beneath the surface. Unlike traditional mental health settings, it creates space for intersectional empaths and sensitive people to be fully seen. Many of us sensitives have experienced being dismissed, minimized, or even inadvertently doing emotional labor for the mental health providers who are meant to help us—because of our larger empathetic capacity or broader view of life and phenomena. This can lead to retraumatization rather than healing. Sensitive people think, feel, and live deeply, so finding an affirming provider is essential.
Remember: your decolonized health is activism.
You are the reason I create this content. Even if we never work together, I want you to know that you can find affirming mental health care—you are deserving and worthy of health and vitality, even if the world system sometimes mirrors a different reality.
Remember:
You are not too much.
Your sensitivity is not a liability—it’s a divine, extraterrestrial connection.
You are worthy of care that sees all of you.
If you’d like to work one-on-one, I offer Integrative Holistic Therapy with Concierge Service for ongoing support, as well as one-off intuitive sessions, where I intuitively mirror your energy and answer your questions about healing. My free monthly newsletter now includes an exclusive video where I answer a community question on holistic, intuitive, or intersectional healing, along with links to join my free quarterly Q&A gatherings.
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Until next time, take care of your inner world—it’s sacred. And so are you.
Solidarity Forever,
Morganne