Honoring Childhood and Adult Sensitivity Through Healing, Play, and Presence

In this episode, I’m joined by Angelique Foye-Fletcher. She’s a licensed therapist who works with highly sensitive children, adults, and families through play, presence, and neuroscience-informed healing. We talk about how early experiences shape our relationship with vulnerability, and why play isn’t just for kids but can also be a powerful tool for deeply feeling humans at any age.

Angelique shares:

• What it means to be a “deep-feeling kid” who grows up too fast.
• How play therapy supports emotional regulation, safety, and expression for children.
• Why play is just as powerful and necessary for adults as it is for kids.
• How highly sensitive parents often need to reparent themselves.
• Why joy can be a form of loving rebellion and healing.
• The importance of authenticity and being imperfectly human.

Topics covered:

• Vulnerability, safety, and emotional attunement.
• Play therapy and child-centered healing.
• Using play, sensory tools, and creativity for adult healing.
• Perfectionism, people-pleasing, and the fawn response.
• Reclaiming joy and presence as an HSP.
• Authenticity, boundaries, and emotional connection.
• Healing across generations for deep-feeling families.

About Angelique Foye-Fletcher:

Angelique R. Foye-Fletcher is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Registered Play Therapist based in Kansas City, Missouri. She is the founder and owner of Foye-Fletcher Therapy LLC, where she helps overwhelmed parents, children, caregivers, and families reconnect with their needs, heal from generational patterns, and rediscover joy through play, connection, nature, and story. 

Angelique has been featured as a mental health expert on Great Day KC, FOX 4 KC, and KMBC, and has presented for organizations such as the Mental Health KC Conference, Johnson County Library, and local school and community programs. Through her private practice, workshops, and collaborations, Angelique continues to bridge clinical insight with everyday tools that foster growth and connection. 

Follow along on Angelique’s journey:

Website: foyefletchertherapy.com

Instagram: @foyefletchertherapy 

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/afoyefletcher

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/p/Foye-Fletcher-Therapy-61577289801782/

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About Kimberly:

Kimberly Marshall is a career coach for highly sensitive people (HSPs) and host of The Happy HSP Podcast. After 20 years in the publishing industry working for companies like Time Inc., Monster.com, and W. W. Norton, she left her corporate career to pursue work that better suited her HSP needs. She now helps HSPs overcome burnout and low confidence in the workplace and create gentle and nurturing careers that bring them lots of purpose, meaning, and joy.

Through her work and creative ventures, Kimberly hopes to shed more light on the reality of living with high sensitivity and inspire more HSPs to embrace their empathetic, loving, and gentle natures.

• Hosted/produced by Kimberly Marshall
• Edited by Fonzie Try Media
• Artwork by Tara Corola
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