Getting to know how family members are feeling can be hard when people are not wanting to share. In creative arts and drama therapy, you and your family can communicate in more positive ways. However, many families are not ready to listen to each other. Also, families may not fully understand what is preventing connection. Drama therapy in family counseling near Guilford, Connecticut helps your family members become more empathetic to one another. Family members are often in conflict due to different views, feelings, fears, and beliefs. As teenagers grow up, conflicts may arise that put parents and siblings at odds.
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Drama therapy in family counseling near Guilford, Connecticut helps depressed teenagers and their parents stay close
Raising teenagers and young adults can make your family very tense.
Often times, teenagers are dealing with depression, anxiety, self harm, eating disorders, and dating. Additionally, your teen may be exploring their sexual orientation or coming out as transgender. Finally, your teen may be drinking or displaying impulsive behaviors. Having an adolescent move into teenage and young adult years can put a lot of strain on parents. Also, parents may realize that they have very different parenting styles and get into fights. For instance, one parent might be harsh, and the other parent may be passive. Family therapy can help parents get on the same page. Additionally, drama therapy helps parents feel close right in the counseling session.
Teenagers and parents can feel playful in counseling
To add, drama therapy can help parents and teenagers playfully discuss issues like social media use or dating. Overall, drama therapy and art therapies provide teenagers with positive coping tools. As well, parents can learn to confidently talk with their teenager about core topics like sex, dating, drinking, and safety. As well, because teenagers are on their phones so much, there is a natural disconnection from the rest of their family.
Family counseling with the use of drama therapy and creative expressive arts such as yoga and musical instruments.
These can help families rebuild the sense of emotional connection where technology causes disconnection. Creative drama therapy in family counseling near Guilford, Connecticut supports laughter, joy, trust, and resiliency.
If you are blending your family, seek family counseling near Guilford, Connecticut.
Often times, blended families are in a process of change. They are two separate families that have divorced and are coming together to create a brand new one. One person may have two or three children from a prior marriage. And, the other person may have no children, one child, or even more children. As well, children who are becoming step siblings need help to adjust to living together. Overall, family counseling helps to improve communication. As well, when one person has no children, it can be quite an adjustment to blend families. Someone without children who marries a parent may benefit from family counseling near Guilford, Connecticut.
How else can drama therapy in family counseling help blended families?
As well, drama therapy in family counseling near Guilford, Connecticut can help blended families stay optimistic. Creative therapies are especially helpful for blended families who are dealing with frustration and tension from extended family members or exes. Exes can be troublesome and a source of stress. Building a family unit where all family members feel valued and heard takes time and presence. Family therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling can help you do this successfully.
Overall, family therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling incorporates painting, clay, art, yoga, and drama therapy.
Essentially, these creative family therapies can help your new family and home feel like a safe place for everyone. As well, holistic, creative family therapy can also give all members a space to talk about future goals. If a co-parent from a previous relationship has drug or alcohol problems, this can make co-parenting stressful.
Alcoholism and drug use in a family is a good reason to seek holistic family counseling near Guilford, Connecticut
Substance and alcohol abuse can deeply hurt an entire family. Maybe, as a parent, you think back to your childhood. You remember one of your parents coming home drunk and being violent. Perhaps, one of your childhood traumas was having a parent with depression, alcoholism, or mental health issues. As well, your parent may have caused emotional trauma when drunk in your young years. When families have someone who is affected by addiction or alcoholism, there are a lot of emotions that need to be talked about. When a grandparent, parent, or member of the immediate family has a drug or alcohol problem, families often feel like they have to deal with these issues alone.
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Working with a holistic family therapist can support conversations around alcoholism and addiction
Isolation around these issues is very problematic. Sometimes, working with a family counselor near Guilford, Connecticut might bring light to the severity of the alcoholism. Also, we know that addiction and alcoholism run in the family. So, a teenager who is drinking alcohol or sneaking alcohol is more likely to have alcoholism in adult years. A family therapist at Wisdom Within Counseling can help parents understand how severe a teen drinking really is. Family therapists can help parents understand the influence of a history of family alcoholism and drug use. Alcoholism and drug use in your family is not something you have to deal with alone.
Working with a family therapist can help you understand if your loved one needs interventions like rehab services.
Weekly counseling may be what your family member needs to better understand positive coping tools to live a sober life. Even if a family member is in recovery and sobriety, the risk of relapse is very real. Children may not understand addiction and alcoholism as a disease. Furthermore, children may even blame themselves for how their parent with alcoholism is acting. Domestic violence, verbal abuse, and high conflict arguments are much more common in families where addiction and alcoholism are present. Working with a holistic, expressive arts therapist can help every member of the family learn that what they are feeling is totally acceptable.
Family therapy near Guilford, Connecticut can help your family feel close even with the stressors of alcoholism and addiction.
To deal with stress positively, your family can learn coping tools together. Your family can take part in painting, art, yoga therapy, meditation, improvisation, drama therapy, and creative arts. These creative arts in family sessions bring a sense of playfulness back into your family environment.
Creative arts in family therapy provide a language beyond just words.
Drama therapy in family counseling near Guilford, Connecticut helps family members talk about something without feeling pressure to say the right thing. In drama therapy, family members can learn to shift from “survival mind” to “adventure mind.” When families learn to step away from fear and sadness, they can build meaningful connections in the present moment. Essentially, drama therapy in family counseling near Guilford, Connecticut helps family members truly enjoy each other.
LGBTQIA+, Queer, Non Binary, Transgender Topics in Family Counseling
When a member of your family is coming out as gay, bisexual, transgender, non-binary, or gender questioning, all members of the family have their own emotions. Wisdom Within Counseling provides a safe space with the use of expressive arts.
Have you recently told your spouse that you want “they/them” as your preferred pronouns?
Children, teenagers, and adults can to talk about LGBTQIA+, gender questioning and transgender feelings. Does your husband want to cross dress, make up, and dresses? Or, does your spouse want an open marriage? Are you noticing that your spouse wants to talk about their sexual orientation more? Is your child asking to dress in the opposite gender section of the clothing store and wanting to be called a different name than the name given at birth? Do you recognize that you are curious about your sexual orientation or your gender?
Queer, LGBTQIA+, nonbinary, gender diversity and sexuality topics can create a disconnect when families have different beliefs systems.
Maybe, your spouse was brought up in a very religious house and that is causing tension in your marriage and family. As well, working with a transgender affirming and queer affirming therapist can help families talk openly. Talking openly means feely sharing emotions, while being supportive. There might be anger, fear, grief, excitement, or joy associated with coming out in the coming out process. Family counselors can integrate the use of art therapies, yoga therapies, music therapies, and drama therapy. At Wisdom Within Counseling, creative, holistic, drama therapy in family counseling near Guilford, Connecticut provides a safe place for joy.
Creative arts in family therapy allows children and parents to vocalize their LGBTQIA+ affirming feelings and concerns in playful ways.
Children and parents may have different views based on their ages and culture. Family therapy can help a family talk about what they might be avoiding and build a better sense of connection. If your child is gay, they can learn that their family is a safe place and learn skills like self acceptance.
Parent support sessions are a part of family therapy around the coming out process
As a parent, if your child is coming out and you feel a sense of shame or confusion, working with a family therapist at Wisdom Within Counseling can help build acceptance. Essentially, building acceptance of your child’s sexual orientation or gender identity can help you have a better relationship with them. Overcoming limiting beliefs as a parent around LGBTQIA+ topics paves the way for true connection in your relationship. Overall, creative, holistic family counseling near Guilford, Connecticut helps families feel supported navigating their feelings with a transgender, LGBTQIA specialist.
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How does drama therapy benefit family therapy sessions and couples therapy sessions?
Furthermore, fighting couples tend to be stressed and overwhelmed with family life. Distant couples may also feel conflict from extended family, stress from parenting, and pressure to succeed at work. These stressors take families out of connection. Also, families need a safe place to begin warming up emotional expression.
Many families never talk about sadness, loss, anger, jealousy, or even anxiety around uncertainty.
Overall creative, drama therapists are trained to help you open up slowly and get in tune with your emotions. Furthermore, families can be helped to trust each other more and build positive connection. Play therapy, games, and improvisation help families find a sense of rhythm together again. As well, families can feel closer and your therapist can help you progress in healthy communication.
Drama therapy helps families meet goals of shared meaning and communication in playful ways.
To add, therapy helps family members share what they are feeling in calm, playful, and new ways. For instance, a drama therapist may ask you and your family members to take part in a “One Word Story.” “One Word Story” is a game that warms up family members to establish trust and a foundation of play. Overall, drama therapy helps family members understand the playfulness required in sharing emotions and expressing them together.
Fear is the constant state of planning. Drama therapy in family counseling near Guilford, Connecticut supports flexible thinking and adventure!
Families do not have a strict plan for the rest of life. It is hard to be stuck in a planning mode when life is unpredictable. In drama therapy, your counselor will learn about your mind, body, and spirit. You can learn to get more in tune with expressing yourself through drama therapy. Furthermore, drama therapy helps families with children and adults of all ages to come together. In family life, you never know what will happen.
There may be a sudden loss or death, or exciting news, or some plans change.
Or, there may be a financial change that brings added stress. As well, you may have problems with your health or a new medical diagnosis. Overall, drama therapy helps families build resiliency and skills to deal with uncertain times. At Wisdom Within Counseling, you can feel better by acting, using art, and expressing yourself in a holistic way.
Why does traditional talk therapy not work so well?
Often, couples who are fighting are told to stop interrupting each other in traditional talk therapy. When interrupting each other, couples often do not see another way of communicating. So, a traditional therapist saying, “Stop interrupting,” doesn’t teach a lifelong skill. That traditional therapist is simply giving advice. Unfortunately, many couples may not be able to implement “no interrupting.” The couple, when fighting at home, may still interrupt each other. At home, outside the observation of a therapist, not interrupting is hard to do. For couples, play in drama therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling supports better communication skills.
How does Wisdom Within Counseling teach couples and families in counseling playfulness and resiliency?
In drama therapy, your holistic therapist can help you both find alternatives to interrupting. Your holistic, drama therapist in Southeastern Connecticut can help you laugh again as a couple and as a family. Your holistic therapist at Wisdom Within Counseling won’t give advice like stop this or that.
Instead, your holistic therapist will help you have an experience where you can create a new skill in session.
In counseling, you can develop a skill of positive communication right in counseling. From doing a drama therapy activity, your therapist can help you feel confident trying to things. As well, play and drama therapy on video or in person supports couples and families in learning how to calmly connect.
What does connection mean in family therapy through drama therapy?
Often, families lose connection by not listening to each other, not sharing experiences, or having different goals. As well, families become disconnected due to limiting beliefs. Sometimes, families are too silent or too loud. Families needing better communication tend to either have two issues. Drama therapy in family counseling near Guilford, Connecticut helps families learn to communicate in healthier, calmer ways.
How can drama therapy help if you are you part of a family that doesn’t talk about important issues?
One type of family fighting style involves an emotional shutdown cycle. Often, this style is where families don’t talk about important issues. Families may go through a loss or sudden death and never talk about the emotional experience. Or, a member of the family has alcoholism or an addiction that is never spoken about. There may be shame associated with speaking about problems. In these “silent treatment” families, crying is not okay and is a sign of weakness. Any emotion besides pure joy is not acceptable. Often, this creates deep tension. Furthermore, families in this state have alcoholism or drug use present. As well, children learn that showing feelings is a bad thing. Therapy as a family can help children and parents learn that showing feelings are okay and healthy. Drama therapy in family counseling near Guilford, Connecticut helps families emote and learn to express a range of different emotions.
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In what ways do high conflict families need help with communication?
Or, fighting families tend to be in another group. In this type of family, there are high conflict fights and yelling. Often, children are yelled at or talked down to in a high conflict family. Blaming, shaming, and yelling are common in high conflict families. There may also be alcoholism or drug use present. Families like this get very angry at each other when in conflict. High conflict families need help building skills for calm, non-emotional communication. Emotions of anger run high in high conflict families and couples. Holistic, creative, drama therapy in family counseling near Guilford, Connecticut helps families thrive. You can learn to talk softly and validate each other.
No matter what cycle of conflict and tension your family may be in, better communication can help you build connection, love, and trust again.
In family therapy, you can build a safe foundation for calm communication and intimate connection. Also, a holistic, drama therapist can be a role model for your family. And, your therapist can show relaxation and playfulness that families can reflect to one another in session. Holistic, creative, drama therapy in family counseling near Guilford, Connecticut brings out a humorous perspective. Lastly, you can be playful, silly, and let out a genuine side of you.
