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How To Help An Overwhelmed Child in Ways Other Parenting Approaches Miss.

Finally understand how to build confidence in your sensitive child, gain tools to navigate intense emotions, sleep, anxiety — and so much more.

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It’s hard to know how to help an overwhelmed child, especially one who is a sensitive and deep-feeling. I’ve been in those shoes, and every day can feel like a balancing act.

You want to guide them, protect them, help them grow into kind, regulated, resilient humans — while ensuring they experience the best life has to offer…

But sometimes it feels like your efforts aren’t reaching them.

My mission is to show you how to fix this — and how to build confidence in a sensitive child.

You may feel exhausted, second-guessing yourself, or unsure how to navigate their struggles, or the intensity of their emotions.

This is why I created Safe Space to Land- so your child can become a happy and secure master of their big emotions, confident in themselves, and able to navigate anxiety, overwhelm, and other challenges with resilience.

 
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I was a child who never quite felt met.
I sensed everything. Felt everything.
But the world didn’t know what to do with that.

I didn’t have a space where my big emotions, deep thoughts, or quiet sensitivities felt safe to land.

No one mirrored them back to me. No one helped it all make sense.

 
Sensitive and overwhelmed little girl holding a flower and looking sullen

The World Didn’t Understand Highly Sensitive Children

It wasn’t anyone’s fault. We didn’t yet have the language or understanding we do now.

As a result, I struggled to understand myself—and to feel comfortable in my own skin.

When the world doesn’t see you, it becomes extremely hard to see yourself.

That disconnection shapes everything about how you live your life.

It builds an underlying sense — often unconsciously — that “it’s not safe to be me.”

With a body already tuned to feel the world deeply, this all became a recipe for overwhelm, anxiety, and disconnection.

 

Discovering the Truth About Highly Sensitive Children

Then, as a mother of an emotionally intense son, I experienced first-hand just how overwhelming parenting could be— especially when you’re trying to figure out how to help a sensitive child.

— and, more importantly, I discovered the highly sensitive trait, realising that this was biologically-based: we were wired differently!

I fully resonated with how overwhelming the world could feel for him.

 

If You’ve Ever Wondered How to Help a Sensitive Child

I know many of you reading this will feel similar uncertainty, or worry for your children. Perhaps you’ve wondered, “how do you them find calm in the overwhelm?” or “how do you help them build confidence in a sensitive child?”

I had my own “penny-drop” moment when I realised that my child and I both shared an innate sensitivity and I began to see exactly what was needed to help my sensitive child thrive. That’s when my journey truly began.

We were constantly walking on eggshells and couldn’t understand what was causing our son to react the way he was.

Adapting our parenting to work for a Highly Sensitive child has been an absolute game changer.
— Lisa, Scotland.
Family bonding moment with parent and sensitive children, happy and connected

From Struggle to Understanding

Since then with over a decade supporting families just like yours professionally, extensive training, combined with my unique experience, I’ve been able to identify exactly what gets in the way, creating unnecessary tension and disharmony in families

—and developed a precise roadmap for raising sensitive and deep-feeling children who flourish.

I’ve seen the difference it makes, not just with my clients, but with my own children.

Happy family stood together who learnt how to build confidence in their sensitive children via the parenting course a safe space to land

“It felt like I had my own personal parenting coach in my pocket!

I loved applying the actions, which have made a real difference in so many family situations already.

Life-changing stuff and I can’t recommend it enough.” — Lucy, UK.

 
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The Science Behind Sensitivity and Overwhelm

Discovering the unique needs of highly sensitive children—and learning the neuroscience behind their overwhelm—was life-changing for me.

Through years of working with both children and their parents, I began to see the same repeating patterns

— the subtle yet powerful cues that these finely tuned children absorb from the world around them.

And that these cues quietly shape who they believe they are, and whether they feel safe, capable, and free to grow… or anxious, self-doubting, and held back.

I started to realise the influence we get to have over all of this as parents, which this was not only empowering, but life-changing for me and so many families I went on to support.

What I came to understand is that this sensitivity is biological and hard-wired — but nothing about the struggles or behaviour are fixed.

Not only that, but the emotional depth and heightened sensitivity can also become your child’s greatest strengths, allowing them to thrive beyond what we’d ever imagine, when nurtured correctly.

Parent and son enjoying a moment of connection playing a computer game together and resolving his overwhelm

Small Shifts That Change Everything

Once we understand what their sensitive systems are truly asking for, everything can begin to shift…

The big emotional eruptions, the quiet withdrawal, the fears, or the constant “I’m not good enough” thinking that holds them back

— And often, these changes happen more quickly than you might imagine.

I helped my own sensitive child, now a teenager, build his confidence and significantly reduce the overwhelm he experienced as deep-feeler and thinker.

I can honestly say that he now thrives because of it. His confidence, his depth, his emotional insight and how he shows up in the world- it’s extraordinary. And it blossomed through understanding, not pressure.

The good news? Even small, daily shifts can start to make a real difference—sometimes immediately.

It doesn’t have to stay this way for one more day. The brain and nervous system are constantly adapting, responding to every experience and every small sign that they are safe, understood and accepted. And you get to influence this deeply.

From this understanding, I developed a practical framework for parents to weave into daily life so they can start making a difference fast.

And it’s been carefully designed in a bite-sized, easy to consume format, so that it doesn’t add to the overwhelm you’re already feeling.

Transform tension into trust and help your child rediscover their natural confidence and ease. It’s time to give them a safe space to land and you the most wonderful peace of mind.

Woman smiling after completing parenting course for her sensitive child, sharing a positive review of how it helped them to hugely build his confidence as well as improve her marriage.

”This course is spectacular! Not only did it help us communicate better with our highly sensitive child, it also helped us see his point of view more.

An added and unexpected bonus is that our marriage has improved due to our newfound understanding! Heidi, USA.

You can start here with my free online webinar, COMING SOON-

Beyond Ordinary Parenting: A Peek into What Your Sensitive Child Needs to Thrive.

 
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A Space Where Emotional Safety Comes First For Highly Sensitive and Deep-Feeling Children

It took me years to start finding my way back to a sense of safety and to who I truly am.

And that’s why this work exists: to offer the kind of space I never had.

  • A space where an overwhelmed child can be fully seen and supported

  • Where their sensitivity can be nurtured into confidence and resilience

  • Where a parent can trust what they’ve sensed all along

    …and step into the parent they’ve always wanted to be.

  • Where emotional security isn’t an afterthought

    … it’s the foundation your sensitive child has been needing all along to thrive, connect, and grow

This is Safe Space to Land.

For your child.
For you.
And for every part of me that waited years to know it was safe to be fully here.

 
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