Wisdom Within Counseling and Coaching
Helping Kids, Teens, & Couples Build Positive, Meaningful Relationships
The coronavirus has impacted couples staying together. Everything is being put to the test in the time of COVID-19, including love. Every couple has conflicts, but new and prolonged stresses caused by the coronavirus can cause them to fight more. Or, just as problematic, go to the other extreme: bottle their feelings and not fight at all. You’ll be happy
Hi! I’m Courtney Littlewood. I am thrilled to join the practice as a teen therapist at Wisdom Within Counseling in Niantic. East Lyme adolescent and teen therapy with me is unique, personalized, and a different approach. Adolescent therapy with us is tailored to your child’s unique needs to bring out their best self and highlight their strengths! Expert with Children
Teenagers hate therapy for a number of reasons. However, teens love coming to their session at Wisdom Within Counseling. I am an adolescent therapist in East Lyme and I’m Katie Ziskind, LMFT, RYT500. When looking at why therapy doesn’t work for teens, we need to look at a few different reasons. First, therapy at school doesn’t work because teens are
First, the biggest impact on boys who don’t like sports is feeling shameful. For many boys, sports are a normalized part of American culture. Unfortunately, non competitive activities are not embraced enough. Often, in marriage and family therapy sessions at Wisdom Within Counseling in Niantic, Connecticut this topic comes up a lot. Should my son play football? What if he
Request Appointment Habits To Strengthen The Parent Child Relationship First, if you feel chaos in your household, these tips can help. Frequently, with the stress of work, a marriage, owning a home, your parent child relationship can struggle. Also, our American culture focuses on brand name clothes, a better career, technology, and more education. But, this focus takes away from
Why Would I, a Teen, See a Therapist in East Lyme, Connecticut? To go to therapy in Niantic, is like a spa day for your mental health. Peer drama? Relationship stress? Vaping and drinking? Are you looking for a safe place to let go? For one, you can talk about anything that may be on your mind in therapy. Also,
What is post-traumatic stress disorder? Post-traumatic stress disorder is also known as PTSD. So, PTSD can look really different for all different people. There’s a lot of different PTSD symptoms that come along with it. A lot of different experiences that can happen that might bring on the diagnosis of PTSD and PTSD symptoms. Read more about holistic complex PTSD
It is really hard to think about a young, beautiful, perfect child or adolescent having an eating disorder. Many people are also astonished to hear that males, in addition to females, can develop an eating disorder! Usually, an eating disorder is a trauma-related condition that can be diagnosed as young as age seven in children. The team at Wisdom Within
When your adolescent, teenager, or young adult interacts peers, there is a natural learning curve, experimentation with curiosities, and budding relationships as well as break ups. Typically, adolescents and teenagers grapple with a variety issues including anger, frustration, self-harm/cutting, anxiety with school, eating disorders, violence, social media, bullying, general behavior problems, school refusal, family avoidance, and even drug and alcohol