Hello! My name is Deborah Orandon, and I am a mental health counselor in Portland Oregon and have been working with highly sensitive clients for many years in my movement & massage practices and now also in my counseling practice. (Please visit: http://www.selfawarenesscounseling.com/ to get to know me a bit better.) Discovering Elaine Aron’s Highly Sensitive Person work ( http://www.hsperson.com/index.html ) 15 years ago, and honoring my own sensitivity, was a turning point for me in being able …

This group was created to help Port Townsend, Olympic Peninsula, Kitsap Peninsula and Whidbey Island HSPs connect with each other in friendship and support. As the former organizer of an HSP meetup in Austin, TX-- as well as a past attendee of many of the large "HSP Gatherings" around the country, I cannot say enough positive things about the importance of HSPs connecting and making friends with their peers. Why a second group in this region? This is an alternative for those who don't always fee …

Hi! We've been bemoaning the lack of opportunities to meet professional, healthy, happy, attractive, interesting, adult polyamorous people in the Seattle area. This is supposedly one of the biggest, most active polyamorous communities in the US, and yet it appears that all of us poly folk are just groping around in the dark, trying to meet each other! SO, after thinking about ways to meet others, we had the bright idea to start a group poly folk in the area. We personally are half-closeted (she …

I decided to start this group as the more and more people that I meet have expressed an interest in learning more about how their own inner workings work and have the need for an un-biased loving guide.