Barbara Allen-Williams

Barbara Allen-Williams is currently a speaker, trainer and mentor on the topic of high sensitivity and authentic sensitive living, in the UK and abroad.  She belongs to a group of 'International Consultants on High Sensitivity', trained by Elaine N Aron PhD and has advocated for accuracy and awareness in understanding and making the most of this innate temperament trait.  Barbara trained as a therapist in 1991 and worked as a supervisor, group worker and trainer both in addiction services and in private practice.  She retired from therapy in 2013 and for more than twenty years she has specialised in high sensitivity (sensory processing sensitivity), facilitating hundreds of events for HSPs.  Barbara's first book is a simple and straight forward look at common struggles for HSPs that helps to see those struggles in the context of developing  maturity as HSPs who can be the strong, gentle and insightful leaders that the world needs now and for the future.

Barbara is married with four adult (highly sensitive) children and two grandchildren  and straddles two locations in Hampshire and Cornwall.