Is your teenager daughter struggling with self-injury and needing DBT therapy?
First, being 15 years old is hard. Stressors for self-harm can be divorce and family changes. For instance, few years ago, you and your daughter’s other parent separated and divorced. That was a huge change for her. On that note, for an adolescent, hearing that their parents getting divorced causes anger, and to lash out. At times lashing out can be self-harm, cutting. Wisdom Within Counseling specializes in therapy for teen self-harm using DBT and somatic, holistic, and creative therapies.
Is your teenager cutting and needing healthy coping tools?
Other times, your teenager yells, punches walls, and angrily lashes out at you. As a parent, you wonder what happened to your happy, bubbly little girl. Now, she seems self-destructive and you want her to love herself again. At Wisdom Within Counseling, in Niantic, therapy for teen self-harm is creative. And, we help your frustrated teenager see the bright side to life again.
We help teen girls stop self-harming, learn positive coping skills, and develop self-confidence.
In the past, you noticed razors missing, but didn’t think anything of it.
Thinking back, your adolescent wore long sleeve shirts in the summer, which was strange. It was winter, she wore long pants, so she was hiding it well.
From a trusted friend, you got a call that your daughter just last night she tried to hurt herself. The school has been noticing depression and social withdrawal. And, she cries more often that usual and seems like she is stuck on a roller coaster of emotion.
To begin, click the pink button below for a phone consult for creative teen therapy.
At Wisdom Within Counseling, in Niantic, highly specialized creative therapy for angry teenagers who self-harm teaches teens how to cope in healthy ways and let go of anger around peer pressure and divorce.
To get started, click below for a phone consultation for therapy for teen cutting and self-injury.
Are the police involved due to drug use? Do you want your frustrated, self-harming daughter to see a teen specialist in Niantic?
Last night, the local police were called because she tried to run away too. You have good instincts as a parent to be concerned. Now, you are worried about suicide, the intense anger, and self-harm as well as reckless dating. After this incident, maybe, the police highly recommended teen counseling.
At Wisdom Within Counseling in Niantic, we are a team of creative therapists who specialize in alternative therapy for teen self-harm. Finally, your angry teenage daughter can lean to accept and express her negative feelings through art, yoga, music, animals, and outdoor therapies. Further, these holistic therapies teach teens who cut themselves there are other, more positive outlets for letting go and releasing their intense feelings. Read about animal therapy, here.
DBT and holistic therapies support alternatives to self-harm and cutting in teenagers
Is your teenager troubled and having rough time with divorce?
Now, you are seriously looking for different approach. At Wisdom Within Counseling in Niantic, we are LGBTQIA+ therapists for teenagers when it comes to counseling. And, dating, sexual orientation, and sexual identity are new stressors for a fifteen year old girl. First, it was razors going missing and self- harm that you thought may resolve itself on its own.
Does your teenager have friends who influence her or him to self-harm?
However, you hear that your depressed teenage daughter is posting her self-harm on social media. On another note, your daughter doesn’t like her other parent’s new partner. And, at school your teenager daughter is overwhelmed with friend pressure.
When it comes to sexuality, she says she could be pansexual or bi-sexual.
Gender, sexuality. sexual orientation and expression are part of teen exploration. At Wisdom Within Counseling in Southeastern Connecticut, creative therapy for teen self-harm is highly specialized. Our team of holistic teen therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling know exactly how to connect with an angry teenager. Then, from a trusting therapeutic connection, your teenager’s therapist will teach positive coping skills. Plus, from having a supportive relationship with their Niantic teen therapist, your self-harming teen can develop self-confidence and better self-esteem.
To get started, click the pink button below for a phone consultation to help you teen stop self-harming.
At Wisdom Within Counseling in Niantic, we are a holistic group of adolescent and teen counselors who specialize in therapy for teen self-harm.
Further, your angry, distant teenager will reconnect with their mind, body, and spirit. And, your angry teenager can feel supported and understood by a professional therapist outside of their family. We are professionals who are highly educated with teenagers who self-harm. And, our team of holistic teen therapists know how exactly to help teenagers stop self-harming.
Your distant, depressed teenager can learn positive, holistic coping skills to release anger through art, yoga, music, animals, or outdoor therapies.
From therapy for teen self-injurious behavior, you daughter can learn how to creative meaningful relationships and choose genuine, trustworthy people to be her friends
Not to mention, your teenager daughter doesn’t have a strong, core group of friends. To note, the Teen Girl Group that meets weekly in Niantic at Wisdom Within Counseling offers a healthy, core group of friends in a small, close-knit setting. Unfortunately, right now, your teenage daughter tends to be swayed by older peers and gets poor grades. Last week, your teenage daughter was caught vaping in the high school bathroom. As a result, your daughter was suspended. Shockingly, she didn’t seem to care.
We are a team of specialists that know how to help an angry teen stop self-harming
Right now, you have so many concerns, you don’t know where to start. You want an expert on adolescents and angry teenagers who cut themselves. So, you have found the right place. In Niantic, Connecticut, Wisdom Within Counseling is a group of professional mental health therapists that specialize in helping distant teens stop self-harming. We offer video and phone sessions for parents and teens in crisis. Therefore, specialized therapy for teens who self-harm teaches your teenager positive outlets for processing and releasing her feelings.
Do you want your teenager to have a strong moral compass and have healthy friends her own age?
And, how she desired the attention of older teens concerns you. Homework is something she isn’t doing, so her grades are dropping not doing homework. At the core, you want your teenage daughter to learn positive coping skills for handling her anger, frustration, and loss in healthy ways. Plus, you want your teenager to have a better relationship with both you and her other biological parent, if possible.
Therefore, therapy for teens who self-harm in Southeastern Connecticut is highly specialized. At Wisdom Within Counseling, your daughter will be in the hands of specialists who are experts who stopping teen self-harm. To get your angry or depressed teenage girl started in loving herself and letting go of anger, call/text us 860-451-9364.
What do we do differently that is out-of-the-box in creative therapy for teens to stop self-harming?
At Wisdom Within Counseling, holistic teen therapy, in Niantic, your angry, self-harming teenager can release feelings. First, in therapy for teen self-harm, your distressed, distant teenager can paint and use expressive arts to feel a sense of accomplishment.
Also, art therapy for self-harming teenagers provides inner peace and calmness.
From holistic therapy, your teenager can take that inner peace and positivity into school and home life. Further, these positive coping skills learned in session can be taken in to high school years and college. One day, your teenage daughter can be successful living independently in college. Right now, is the time for her to learn essential coping mechanisms for self-acceptance, inner peace, and self-care.
Is your angry teen highly active and needing movement therapy like walking?
On another note, in creative therapy for teen self-harm in Niantic, you teen can take their session outside. Further, walk-and-talk therapy along the Niantic Bay Boardwalk can be empowering, healthy, and boost mood. Plus, walking therapy for self-harming teens is a way to manage depression right in session.
To add, being outside, in nature, and breathing in fresh air can help a self-harming teenager gain a big perspective.
So, instead of being reactive to emotions and impulsive, your teenage daughter can see a large perspective on her situation. Lastly, Niantic therapy for teen self-harm offer options including art, yoga, music, and animals for self-confidence.
How can angry teens who self-harm learn to stop and use self-care strategies instead?
At Wisdom Within Counseling in Niantic, we are a group of experts on teen self-harm. Sometimes, teenagers who are self-harming come in for sessions three to four days a week. And, this level of structure helps a teen have a safe place, outside of school and home, to let go. A teen’s therapist becomes their role model.
But, therapy for your teenager also supports releases through art therapy, yoga therapy, music, animal therapy, and walking therapy.
Simply, your self-harming teenager can feel relief from stress and the pressure of being a teenager through hands-on learning.
Why Do Teens Self-Harm?
To start, adolescent males and females self- harm, cut, burn, and injure themselves for a number of reasons. Unfortunately, males self-harm too. Thus the male population is often overlooked when it comes to being screened and assessed for self harming, cutting, and injurious behaviors. We are a team of creative, holistic adolescent and teen therapists who offer specialized therapy for cutting, non-suicidal self-harm, and self-injurious behaviors.
Who Typically Self- Harms and Cuts?
Most often, females are watched for self-harming and cutting. But, men and women also may develop an eating disorder or addiction along with self-harming and cutting behaviors. Read more about identifying an eating disorder, here. Read more about teen addiction, here. Regarding self-harm, DBT can be very helpful and one of the most effective treatments.
Free Resource For You! Five Tips For Helping Your Self-Harming Teen PDF is available for download by clicking the link below. Try these tips, have fun, be creative, and be amazed at the possibilities surrounding your new perspective and relationship with your teen/student. Five Tips For Helping Your Teen Stop Self-Harming
The Teenage Brain Focuses on Emotions
Moreover, teenagers tend to be impulsive in their thinking because their brain isn’t yet developed. For instance, a teenage female feels overwhelmed, highly anxious, and guilty over a recent conflict with friends. Unknowingly, her parents were focused on helping her get to school, asked her to do her chores, helped her improve her grades from B’s to A’s, and were focusing on organizing other children’s schedules.
Stopping Self-Harm Through Emotional Awareness and Expression
Now, she may feel unimportant and want to self-harm. So, the reason she self-harms and cuts her skin is because she needs positive coping skills to handle and release her feelings.
Teens Are Helped Through Highly Effective, DBT Skills
At Wisdom Within Counseling in East Lyme, while in therapy for cutting, teens have a chance to learn about how emotions, thoughts, and behaviors are all connected. Therefore, teens gain self-awareness, a long-long skills for building meaningful relationships with others.
Stress Piled On Stress, Without Skills To Release
Later, that day at school continued to be stressful. Then, even though she gets mostly A’s and some B’s, her algebra teacher had assigned her loads of extra homework. Further, let’s add some personal conflict. Say, her best friend just came out that she is gay and then decided she was not speaking to her because of a recent blowup.
Creative, holistic, somatic therapies give positive outlets for intense emotions like anger and anxiety
The Adolescent Brain and Stress Response
Moreover, this adolescent is now torn between wanting to help and being pushed away. In addition, she also had just begun 9th grade felt alone, guilty for her friend not talking to her, unimportant by her parents, and afraid of the future. So, even though this young adult has lots of support from family and other peers, in her adolescent brain, she feels “stuck,” and sees no other option besides self-harming and cutting.
Teenage Years: A Time of Feeling and Expressing High Emotion
Additionally, adolescence and teen years are naturally a time of intense, dramatic feelings as well as high anxiety. In my practice, Wisdom Within Counseling in Niantic, we offer expertise in the area of therapy for cutting and self-harm that meets adolescents or teens where they are in that moment. Additionally, your teen can choose to integrate art, yoga, music, and outdoor therapies with their talk counseling sessions.
Self-Exploration and Discovery: Who Am I In The World?
In the teenage brain, what causes these feelings is a quick chemical reaction. A teen feels triggered, and then jumps into action. In therapy for self-harm, your teen’s therapist will teach your teen show to pause, gain perspective like a wise owl sitting in a tree, and reflect on their emotions before reacting. Then, through therapy for cutting, teens who self harm learn overwhelming, powerful feelings can be handled and released positively. And, they soon see that they have more choice than self-harming and cutting.
To begin, click the pink button below for a phone consult for creative teen therapy.
Strength-Based and Positive Skill-Based Therapy To Help Teens Stop Self-Harming and Cutting
Over thinking about the past and worrying about a future triggers anxiety and deep emotions. At Wisdom Within Counseling in East Lyme, our team of creative therapists offer highly specialized support in the area of integrative therapy for cutting that helps teens stop injuring themselves.
How We Help Your Teen Stop Self-Harming Through Positive Coping Skills?
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches adolescents and teenagers who self-harm positive coping skills, self-regulation, and how to set healthy boundaries with stress that isn’t necessary for them to carry. The creative, holistic therapists in Niantic use a personalized and holistic approach in therapy for cutting and for teens who self-harm. Furthermore, a teen learns skills, which is empowering.
To begin, click below to learn about the emotional confidence skills you teen can learn in therapy to begin creating a life worth living.
Investing In Education For Your Teen: DBT at Wisdom Within Counseling in Niantic, CT
Our team of creative teen therapists integrate DBT. At Wisdom Within Counseling, we are specialists when it comes to helping adolescents, teens, and young adults. Thus, your teen’s therapist in Niantic will teach coping skills for developing a healthier body image, improving self-confidence, and increasing effective coping skills when triggered. DBT includes skill-based activities in sessions and DBT homework, which reinforces what the adolescents and teens learn in sessions and DBT groups.
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy a.k.a Let’s Learn Skills To Handle and Release Tough Emotions
Teens are given education about how to stop-self harming/cutting as well as an opportunity to develop conflict resolution skills, build positive social connections, and learn about sustainable, healthier ways to respond to emotional stress!
What Does Wisdom Within Counseling Do For Teens Who Self-Harm/Cut?
Adolescents and teenagers who take part in positive coping skill education learn their feelings can be, “a part” of them, rather an all of them. Then, emotions that once seemed unmanageable and overwhelming soon become an opportunity for personal growth. To get your distant teenager started in expert teen counseling, call/text 860-451-9364.
Mindfulness and Yoga Breathing Skills
In DBT, teens develop lifelong skills such as mindfulness for present feelings. Thus, these skills are sustainable for handling conflict. And, in therapy for cutting, we help teens who self-harm more effectively handle personal conflicts that may arise in middle school, high school, and college years. Once, these conflicts and tough feelings were triggers for self-harming behavior.
Creating Positive Change and Moving On From Once, Negative Behaviors
However, through DBT and yoga therapy techniques, teens learn they have a variety of other positive skills to use to handle the difficult situation. And, they feel empowered and motivated while learning. Through the DBT modules and therapy for cutting in East Lyme, we help adolescents and teenagers learn that emotions will pass and they are temporary.
As a group of creative therapists who specialize in therapy for cutting, we teach teens how to create a “toolbox” of DBT skills to use anytime for self-care and to help them gain back control to live a life they love.
Connecticut counseling locations
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