A process of befriending, tending, and embodying your sensitivity so it can serve your life — not run it
The Sensitivity Mastery Framework is a step-by-step process for Highly Sensitive and empathic women who are ready to stop coping and start thriving. It’s designed to help you understand, support, and live in alignment with your sensitive nature — not in spite of it, but because of it.
This is not about fixing yourself.
It’s about building the nervous system care, emotional resilience, boundaries, and inner clarity you need to live sensitive and strong — grounded in who you are, not who you were told to be.
Inside this framework, you’ll learn how to:
Understand your unique Empathic and Highly Sensitive traits
Work with your sensitivity instead of against it
Down-regulate your nervous system when the world feels too much
Untangle from people-pleasing and over-functioning
Create boundaries that are both kind and firm
Build a life rooted in your values, not your fears
This is Sensitivity Mastery — not through force, but through tending.
Not through perfection, but through presence.
Hi, I'm Laurie Carlson - and I understand your struggle because I've lived it.
When I started out my career as a psychiatric nurse, I absorbed patients' trauma and carried it home. As a social worker, I felt responsible for my clients' pain and went above and beyond to help them.
I could tell what was going on - both what was said and what wasn't said - it never occurred to me that I didn't have to fix it. Even when my career moved into more traditional business environments I found myself overwhelmed and edgy much of the time.
Sound familiar?
For years, I thought being "too sensitive" meant I was weak or unsuited for the work I knew I was meant to do. I tried to toughen up, compartmentalize, and follow all the traditional advice about "leaving work at work." Nothing worked because I was fighting against how my brain is actually wired.
Everything changed when I learned about empaths and the trait of high sensitivity. I started working WITH my nervous system instead of against it.
Why HSP Helping Professionals Choose Me:
Psychiatric Nurse & Social Worker - I've walked in your shoes in healthcare settings.
Sexual Assault Crisis Response Specialist - I understand secondary trauma and emotional absorption.
11+ years as a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach in private practice - I've moved from feeling responsible for my clients' success to empowering them with tools that create sustainable, self-directed transformation.
Organizational Development & Leadership Professional - I understand workplace dynamics and systemic change.
Master's in Organizational Psychology & Leadership - I combine psychology with practical leadership skills
But here's what really matters: I'm an HSP who has thrived in multiple helping professions and can teach you how to do the same.
I don't give you generic self-care advice that doesn't work for HSP brains. My Sensitivity Mastery framework combines:
Clinical insight from psychiatric nursing and social work and my education in those fields.
Human systems and dynamics expertise from leading workplace culture change.
Coaching mastery from 11+ years of professional coaching
Neuroscience understanding of how sensitive brains actually work.
I know that you have to work WITH your sensitive brain, not against it. That's why everything I teach is grounded in both the science of high sensitivity and practical experience from multiple helping professions.
You're not broken, and you're not in the wrong field. You just need strategies designed for how your HSP brain actually works.