Individualized Misophonia Support — Available Worldwide
Living with misophonia can affect far more than your reaction to individual sounds.
Triggers can influence relationships, family life, school, work, travel, meals, shared spaces, and the amount of energy you spend planning around the possibility of being triggered.
Misophonia coping skills coaching provides individualized, non-clinical support for people who want practical help understanding their own misophonia and developing strategies that fit their lives.
Coaching is available worldwide and may be appropriate for adults, teens, parents, and families.
- Individual coaching: $150 USD per session
- 10-session package: $1,000 USD
- Format: Virtual sessions via Zoom
- Availability: Worldwide
What Is Misophonia Coaching?
Misophonia coaching is an educational and skills-based service rather than psychotherapy.
The purpose is not to convince you that your triggers should not bother you, force you to tolerate triggering sounds, or promise that misophonia can simply be trained away.
Instead, coaching focuses on the parts of living with misophonia where practical changes may help.
This can include understanding your own trigger patterns, developing coping strategies, improving communication, identifying sensory supports, advocating for accommodations, planning for difficult environments, and finding ways to participate in everyday life without ignoring your sensory needs.
Coaching may include:
- Psychoeducation about misophonia
- Understanding your individual triggers and responses
- Identifying patterns that increase sensory vulnerability
- Coping strategies for triggering situations
- Sensory-based regulation strategies
- Planning for school, work, travel, restaurants, family gatherings, and shared spaces
- Communication with partners, parents, children, siblings, or roommates
- Self-advocacy and accommodations
- Boundary setting
- Strategies for recovering after a triggering experience
- Managing anticipatory stress around situations where triggers may occur
- Reducing avoidable conflict surrounding misophonia
- Creating realistic coping plans for everyday environments
- Identifying tools, routines, and environmental changes that may help
The goal is not to make you prove that you can endure your triggers.
The goal is to give you more tools for living with misophonia.
A Misophonia-Informed Approach
Misophonia coaching is informed by the Misophonia Matters approach and CBT-MISO™, along with sensory-informed strategies, psychoeducation, advocacy, accommodations, and practical coping skills.
This approach does not use forced exposure as a goal for coping.
Instead, the focus is on understanding the interaction between the trigger, nervous-system response, environment, sensory needs, thoughts, emotions, relationships, and behaviour surrounding misophonia.
For people who prefer to begin with self-directed education, Misophonia International also offers a free one-hour Misophonia Matters Coping Skills Class for Adults and Teens.
Who Is Coaching For?
Adults With Misophonia
Adults may use coaching to work through specific situations that are interfering with daily life.
This might include coping at work, living with a partner, eating with other people, navigating travel, dealing with neighbours or roommates, attending social events, advocating for accommodations, or simply trying to understand why certain environments are so difficult.
Coaching can also be used periodically rather than as a long-term program. Some people want several sessions to establish a plan, while others may want a single consultation about a specific challenge.
Teens and Pre-Teens
Younger clients may benefit from learning how to identify their own sensory needs and communicate those needs more effectively.
Sessions can include discussions about school, family life, friendships, accommodations, sensory tools, coping strategies, and what to do when leaving a triggering environment is not immediately possible.
Parents can also participate where appropriate.
Parents and Families
Misophonia often becomes a family issue even though only one family member experiences the condition.
Eating sounds, repetitive movements, breathing, household noises, siblings, shared spaces, and disagreements over accommodations can create significant tension.
Family coaching can focus on:
- Understanding what misophonia is
- Understanding the difference between an involuntary reaction and intentional behaviour
- Reducing unnecessary conflict
- Developing realistic household accommodations
- Improving communication
- Creating plans for difficult situations
- Helping the person with misophonia develop greater independence in managing their needs
Sessions may be shared between family members when appropriate.
Individual Misophonia Coaching
Individual appointments are available for people who want flexible support without committing to a structured program.
Cost: $150 USD per session
Individual coaching may be useful if you:
- Want help with one particular problem
- Already understand misophonia but need help applying strategies
- Want occasional rather than weekly support
- Need help preparing for a specific situation
- Want a parent or family consultation
- Are unsure whether a longer coaching program is necessary
Single sessions require a credit card on file but do not require prepayment.
10-Session Misophonia Coaching Package
For people who want more structured support, a discounted 10-session coaching package is available.
10 sessions: $1,000 USD
The package is prepaid, non-refundable, and must be used within six months. Sessions are flexible and may be shared between family members where appropriate.
A Typical Coaching Roadmap
The program can be individualized, but coaching may follow a structure such as:
Session 1: Understanding Your Misophonia
Psychoeducation, discussion of triggers and current challenges, sensory history, environments, relationships, and individual goals.
Session 2: Identifying Patterns
Reviewing your experience of misophonia and identifying situations, environments, or circumstances that make coping easier or harder.
Session 3: Building a Coping Toolkit
Introducing cognitive, sensory, environmental, communication, and practical coping strategies.
Sessions 4–9: Individualized Skill Building
These sessions focus on the areas most relevant to you. This may include family dynamics, relationships, school, work, accommodations, sensory regulation, advocacy, communication, routines, difficult environments, or specific triggers.
Session 10: Review and Future Planning
Reviewing strategies that have been useful, identifying ongoing needs, and developing a plan for continuing independently.
This is a flexible roadmap rather than a rigid treatment protocol.
Coaching Is Not Therapy
Misophonia coaching is a non-clinical psychoeducational and skills-building service.
It is not counselling or psychotherapy and does not involve diagnosing or treating mental-health disorders.
If your primary concerns involve significant depression, anxiety, trauma, OCD, suicidal thoughts, a mental-health crisis, or another issue requiring clinical assessment or treatment, working with an appropriately licensed mental-health professional may be more suitable.
Canadian clients who are specifically looking for counselling can learn more about Misophonia Therapy in Canada.
If you are located elsewhere or would prefer another provider, you can also search the Misophonia International Clinician Directory.
Coaching or Therapy: What Is the Difference?
Consider Coaching If You Want:
- Psychoeducation about misophonia
- Practical coping strategies
- Sensory-informed support
- Help with accommodations or advocacy
- Communication strategies
- Parent or family guidance
- Goal-setting and practical problem-solving
- Support applying what you already know about misophonia
Consider Therapy If You Want:
- A clinical therapeutic relationship
- Assessment of broader mental-health concerns
- Help with significant anxiety, depression, trauma, OCD, grief, or other psychological concerns
- Clinical treatment of emotional or behavioural difficulties
- Therapeutic work involving relationships or other areas beyond psychoeducation and coaching
Neither option is automatically better. They serve different purposes.
Prefer to Start With a Lower-Cost or Self-Paced Option?
You do not need to begin with individual coaching.
Misophonia International has several educational options for people who want to learn independently first.
Free Misophonia Matters Coping Skills Class
This free one-hour on-demand class for adults and teens covers psychoeducation, advocacy, accommodations, sensory-based strategies, and cognitive and psychological coping skills.
Take the Free Misophonia Matters Class
Live Misophonia Coping Skills Classes
Live classes provide structured education along with opportunities for questions and family participation.
10-Week Self-Paced CBT-MISO™ Program
The 10-week self-paced program is designed for teenagers and adults who want structured psychoeducation, worksheets, coping skills, and instructor interaction without participating in individual coaching.
Explore the 10-Week Self-Paced Program
Free Coping Resources
Misophonia International also maintains articles, downloadable resources, guides, sensory tools, and other free materials.
Explore Misophonia Coping Resources
About Shaylynn Hayes-Raymond
Shaylynn Hayes-Raymond, MA, LCT-C has been involved in misophonia advocacy and education since 2015 and also lives with misophonia herself.
She is Director of the International Misophonia Foundation and the creator of Misophonia Matters and CBT-MISO™. Her work combines lived experience, psychoeducation, advocacy, sensory-informed support, cognitive and behavioural strategies, accommodations, and practical approaches to coping with misophonia.
Shaylynn holds a Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology and is a Licensed Counselling Therapist-Candidate in New Brunswick, Canada.
Her counselling practice and worldwide coaching services are maintained as separate services. Coaching does not constitute psychotherapy or clinical treatment.
Not Sure Where to Begin?
You can also begin with one of Misophonia International’s self-directed resources before deciding whether individual support is necessary.
