Why You Feel Overwhelmed (Even When You’re Doing Everything Right)
You may not realise it, but your sensory system could be driving:
- Constant stress or low-level overwhelm you can’t explain
- Difficulty focusing, even when you’re trying your best
- Energy crashes after meetings, screens, or social interactions
- Feeling irritable, distracted, or mentally foggy
- Burnout that seems to “creep up” despite good self-care
- Strained communication at work or at home
- Productivity struggles in hybrid or fast-paced environments
- Feeling misunderstood, especially if you are neurodivergent
Most people blame themselves.
Few realise their sensory identity™ may be the missing piece.
A Clearer Map. Smarter Strategies. Lasting Change.
The Sensory Matrix™ provides a science-backed, comprehensive profile of your seven senses — revealing the patterns driving stress, focus, energy, and performance.
Instead of generic advice, you receive personalised insight into how your nervous system interacts with your environment — and what to do about it.
Your report enables you to:
- Pinpoint where overload is occurring
- Decode the sensory triggers affecting your attention and mood
- Protect your energy in high-demand environments
- Build sustainable self-regulation habits
- Enhance productivity without increasing burnout
- Strengthen wellbeing and relationships through greater sensory awareness
How is the Sensory Matrix™ different?
- The Sensory Matrix™ is a science-backed online assessment that measures your unique sensory processing style — revealing how you are neurologically wired to respond to the world around you
- Unlike traditional personality or productivity tools, it examines attention, emotion, and behaviour from a bottom-up, nervous-system perspective — identifying how sensory thresholds shape your stress, focus, energy, and interactions
- You receive a comprehensive, customised report that includes:
- Detailed sensory threshold results across all seven senses
- Clear explanations of how your brain unconsciously responds to sensory input
- Practical, easy-to-implement strategies tailored to your profile
- Insights that translate directly into stress management tools, workplace performance, wellbeing, and relationships
- Developed by Dr Annemarie Lombard, PhD (Occupational Therapy, Health Sciences), the Sensory Matrix™ is grounded in more than 30 years of clinical practice, research, and professional training
- Rooted in occupational therapy science and enriched by interdisciplinary research, it offers a holistic, evidence-based approach to mental health, workplace wellness, neurodiversity, and human performance
Elevate Wellbeing. Unlock Performance. Lead Differently.
Improve wellness and prevent burnout
Strengthen DEIB initiatives through neuro-inclusive insight
Support neurodiversity with practical, personalised data
Reduce digital & AI fatigue in hybrid environments
Increase productivity, focus, and cognitive stamina
Equip leaders and teams with actionable sensory strategies
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We’ve helped thousands of people and organisations be healthier, happier and more productive
About a year ago I was not myself… At the time, the best way I could describe it to my fiancé was that I had so many “tabs” open in my head that I had run out of mental “bandwidth”… I felt as if I had exhausted all resources; mental, emotional, and physical, and that I had very little energy left for the important people and activities in my life. In search of some relief, I came across Annemarie Lombard’s book “Sensory Intelligence®”. It was here I learned that I am extremely “Sensory Sensitive”, becoming overstimulated very easily by my external environment. Finally, everything started to make sense – I felt like a sponge absorbing every little detail of what was happening around me. Furthermore, I knew that others around me were not experiencing life in this way… This year I have taken steps to create a lifestyle that suits my needs – one where I am able to work independently and have much more space in my day for quiet, deep, creative work and alone time for reflection and meditation… I am now feeling more myself than I have in a long time and I have so much more energy and mental clarity. I feel like understanding my sensory style was the missing puzzle piece that finally gave me the push I needed to create a lifestyle that works for me.
Candice Black
Director / Founder & Independent Consulting Psychometrist at HUMANESSENCE (Pty) Ltd
How does it work?
- Follow the link to purchase the tool
- You will receive a welcome email, followed by a second email with your secure username and password, sent to your inbox within minutes of purchase
- Follow the prompts in the email – it’s super easy
- Complete the 120 questions; it takes ±15 minutes
- Don’t overthink – go with your gut and respond instinctively
- There is no right or wrong!!
- You will receive an email thanking you for completing your self-assessment
- You will be asked to log in to view your detailed and customised 26-page report with results, insights and strategies
- You can view, download or print your report. Please download your report for safekeeping, as we do not store any reports
- Your details are safe with us – we use best-practice systems to protect your privacy and personal details.
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