Free Highly Sensitive Child Test

Has your child always been called hyper-sensitive, highly strung or perhaps even dramatic?

This test can help you understand them better and put your child’s sensitivities into a wonderful new light.

Take the free Highly Sensitive Child Test to discover whether your child fits this remarkable trait and start understanding what their big emotions, overwhelm, and sensitivities truly mean.

Coming across Elaine Aron’s Highly Sensitive trait completely changed everything for me as a parent.

I always knew I had a ‘hyper-sensitive’ child, but I didn’t realise this was actually a recognised trait — one shared by roughly 20% of children — and that there was solid science behind it.

Once I understood why my child was so intense, and what was truly happening in their nervous system, everything shifted. My parenting approach transformed, and so did our connection.

Is your child highly sensitive? Start the test-

There are four key characteristics of this trait which are explained as you work your way through. If you answer YES to one or more bullet points in each, it’s highly likely your child fits the trait:

1. Deeper Processing

   -Their brain works in a very deep way, processing the world more thoroughly and taking note of EVERYTHING.
   

   Does Your Child:

   • Seem very intuitive?

   • Ask lots of questions?

   • Ask deep, thought provoking questions?

   • Seem especially observant?

   • Seem overly aware of themselves and others?
     
     

   2. Easily Overstimulated or Overwhelmed

   -All of this busy and non-stop work within their brain leads to your child feeling easily overwhelmed.

   Does Your Child:

   • Find many things ‘too much’- e.g. loud noise, busy places, smells, unfamiliar environments?

   • Often struggle to calm down?

   • Find it hard to get to sleep after a busy day?

   • Struggle with change?

   • Get upset over seemingly trivial things?

   3. Emotional Intensity

   -They feel their emotions more deeply and may have stronger reactions to both positive and negative experiences.
   

   Is Your Child Prone To Being:

   • Easily distressed by things like scary stories or unfairness?

   • Especially happy and excited about life’s positives, but also overly sad and distressed about life’s negatives?

   • Very empathic and aware of other’s emotions?

   • A very sore loser or having a hard time with criticism?

   • Disproportionately upset by unexpected situations such as accidentally hurting someone, making a mistake, or even pleasant surprises?

   4.Sensitivity To Subtleties:

   - They are highly perceptive and pick up on even the smallest details or changes within their environment or even within themselves.
   

   Is Your Child Prone To Being:

   • Fussy and easily bothered by sensory factors such as scratchy clothing, noise, light, touch, taste?

   • Keenly observant of things in their physical and social environment that other people often miss?

   • Quick to spot something that’s changed?

   • Pick up on the distress of others/ of animals?

   • Extremely perceptive, perhaps with a keen sense of smell, or overly aware of the mood or even the hypocrisies of yourself or others?
     
     

🌟If you answered YES to at least one bullet point in each of the four categories, there’s a very strong possibility you have a Highly Sensitive Child.🌟

While no two highly sensitive children are alike, they all share these four core characteristics to some extent. No test can be completely conclusive, but take this as a meaningful sign — an invitation to understand your child more deeply.

What Does The Highly Sensitive Child Test Reveal?

If your result from this test suggests high sensitivity, it means your child has a trait that makes their nervous system more finely tuned and easily over-aroused.

It’s not a disorder or a weakness, and it’s certainly not an excuse for behaviour. Nor are they simply ‘overly-emotional’ or hyper-sensitive’.

They have a beautifully complex and often misunderstood sensitivity that around 1 in 5 children are born with.

WHAT NEXT?

You can learn so much more about supporting a highly sensitive child in my dedicated hub, A Safe Space to Land — a place designed especially for parents of deep-feeling children.

Come join me there and discover how to support your child’s emotional world, nurture their confidence, and help them thrive.

Or, if you’d prefer a more personal start, contact me for a free exploratory session. — I’d love to help you begin this journey.

Our mission

At A Safe Space to Land, we’re dedicated to ensuring that highly sensitive children thrive, feel deeply valued, and take up their rightful space in a world that so often overlooks them.

Here’s the good news: once you understand this trait, you have an incredible opportunity to change everything.

It’s not that you’ve done anything wrong — it’s simply that no one ever gave you the roadmap for parenting this kind of child... until now.

Since children with this trait experience their emotions in a much more dialled-up, magnified way, it’s easy to see why the more expressive ones can feel like little volcanoes — erupting often and with intensity.

The constant bombardment of sensations that accompanies a busy day can easily push them into overload…

The noise, feelings, sensations, faces, unfamiliar surroundings, smells, vibes, thoughts, visuals — and then WHOOSH! Overstimulation hits, and the ‘outbursts’ and ‘eruptions’ begin.

It’s not their fault.
It’s not your fault.
But with this new understanding, you now hold the potential to make today’s stress and unhappiness a distant memory.

With the right insight, you’ll finally be able to see what’s really happening beneath the surface and find far more helpful, compassionate ways to respond to your child.

I now have a relationship with my son that is truly beautiful and my proudest accomplishment in life. And my son has blossomed from his emotionally eruptive beginnings into an empowered, resilient teen.

As an experienced Psychotherapist and Parenting Coach I became dedicated to making sure children like ours are better understood.

And that’s why I’m here — to help you begin your own journey of discovery and change.

Yes, children with high sensitivity can be more challenging to raise, but they also come with immense gifts.

When nurtured the right way, their natural empathy makes them wonderful company. Their deeply processing minds bring extraordinary creativity, insight, and innovation to the world.

And that’s just the beginning.
Once their unique needs are met, the outbursts fade, and your family begins to flourish in ways you may not have imagined possible.

But staying where you are now means you’ll all keep hitting the same default buttons — and nothing will change.

As Einstein famously said, “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.”

If you’d like to explore whether your child may have this trait — and learn how to stop hitting those default buttons and make truly life-changing shifts in your family — then book your free discovery call here.

Your child is so much more than just over-sensitive or hyper-sensitive…

And if you recognised your child in the Highly Sensitive Child Test, you’ve already taken the first step toward understanding them in a whole new way. I’d love to show you the next step