Depression and anxiety can begin for a number of different reasons. In this blog, you can learn some common reasons why children, adolescents, and teenagers struggle. Mental health is just as important as physical health. So, if you notice any of these in your emerging young adult, seek counseling right away. The issues in this blog do not go away on their own. Without holistic teen therapy, they will oven get worse are more severe. If you have a young adult or a teenager who’s struggling with depression, anxiety or self-harm, working with teenagers is a specialty at Wisdom Within Counseling. The team at Wisdom Within Counseling specialize in holistic teen therapy.
LGBTQIA+ gender questioning feelings and the coming out process
Teenagers may be coming out as gender questioning, bisexual, pansexual or even transgender. Holistic teen therapy gives youth a safe place to talk about their gender and sexuality. Many times, adolescents with depression are needing a safe place to gain confidence around their gender identity. Therapy can be a place to talk about clothing choices, hair styles, make up, and gender expression. Furthermore, without family acceptance teens who identify as bisexual, gay, lesbian, queer or transgender may become suicidal. Family acceptance is part of family therapy. When teenagers face anger from their parents or loved ones for coming out, self-harm and suicidal attempts increase.
As a parent, you feel that your teenager a lot is going on.
Maybe, your teen has been given medications for anxiety and depression. It feels like the medication may not doing its job. Your teen may have a lot of anxiety. You might be noticing the medication is causing a lot of issues with eating and lack of motivation. You wonder if the side effects outweigh the anxiety. Your teenager struggles with lack of appetite, but also overeating.
Balancing stress is a skill holistic teen therapy teaches
Maybe, your young adult is going to be a senior in high school and is now working for the first time part time. If your teen likes walking a lot, they may be interested in outdoor walking therapy. At Wisdom Within Counseling, your teenager can do art therapies, yoga therapies, or walking therapies to ease stress. Your teenager can have a safe place to share painful memories.
Symptoms of anxiety and depression
To note, teenagers with anxiety and depression may have trouble sleeping or staying asleep. Perhaps, your teenager is sleeping way too much. Sometimes, your teenager suffers from panic attacks and anxiety attacks. They feel tearful and anxious about the future. Depression often leads to more serious issues like cutting or self-harm. Holistic teen therapy helps your teen deal with any stress that comes their way. Your teenager may feel sad about friendships that have ended and is not doing anything to make new friends. Perhaps, your teenager has been feeling this way since last year and you really want a speciality, creative approach.
To begin, click below to book your free phone consultation for teen depression tools through creative, holistic adolescent and teen therapy.
Holistic teen therapy is a safe space to talk about identifying as queer, gay, bisexual, lesbian, transgender and process gender questioning feelings
Young adults need LGBTQIA+ affirming support around gender questioning feelings. Family members can learn to be affirming and supportive. If your teenager has come out as bisexual, pansexual or queer, our team of therapists would love to help.
At Wisdom Within Counseling, we give adolescents and youth a safe place to process their gender questioning feelings. Your teenager or transgender young adult can feel safe talking about LGBTQIA+ topics and their identity.
Teens may struggle with anxiety or depression due to chronic pain
A new diagnosis of Lyme disease, irritable bowel syndrome, Crohn’s disease, chronic pain or Ehlers Danlos Syndrome be anxiety provoking. Also, a new diagnosis can come as a surprise to a teenager and their family. It can be difficult to manage doctor appointments alongside mental health care. Dealing with chronic pain can lead to trouble sleeping, trouble attending school, and anxiety about more pain. Perhaps, it is difficult for your teenager to deal and cope with joint pain. Grades may be dropping rapidly. Your teenager may not want to attend school any longer. With chronic pain, your teenager may wish and long to do activities that they once enjoyed. However, with their new diagnosis and chronic pain, your teen can’t really do those fun things anymore.
If your teen won’t talk to you anymore, holistic teen therapy can be supportive.
When you ask your teenager, “How are you doing?” are they silent. Does your teenager spend a lot fo time alone in their room? Maybe, you teenager says, “I don’t want to talk about it.” They may secretly bee frustrated, worried, feeling left out, or sad. Your teenager may be depressed and like not telling you anything anymore.
If your child or teenager doesn’t want to share their feelings with you, your child or your teen could benefit from counseling. They can talk about emotions, improve self-esteem, and build emotional confidence in counseling. In school, teenagers are learning about math or science, but they are not really learning about how to have a healthy relationship. And, good boundaries can be necessary even with an overwhelming friend. Holistic teen therapy helps teens know how to say “No,” to peer pressure. Teenagers can learn how to let go of excessive worry, and find outlets for loss or sadness. If you have a teenager who is really struggling with anxiety or depression, holistic counseling can be supportive.
Anger issues are a good reason to start in holistic teen therapy
For children and teenagers, anger is the easiest emotion to show. So, if your child or your teenager is angry, irritable, kind of frustrated, there is a deeper emotion there. Maybe, your adolescent is moody and snapping at you. They may truly be feeling sad or hurt underneath their anger. As well, teenagers show anger through noises like grunting, sighing, or growling. Creative, holistic teen therapy with mind-body therapies give teenagers tools for sharing feelings in healthy ways.
At Wisdom Within Counseling in Southeastern Connecticut, we help children and teenagers build confidence.
Holistic teen therapy provides coping tools to believe in themselves again. Adolescents and teenagers have a therapeutic place to overcome fears in healthy ways. Rather than turning to anger, self-harm, or isolation, holistic teen therapy provides positive outlets. A mixture of art, painting, yoga therapy, guided meditation, outdoor walking therapies, even nature therapies are available in holistic teen therapy.
To begin, click below to book your free phone consultation for teen counseling for creative, holistic adolescent and teen therapy.
Misophonia or sensory processing disorders
Misophonia is common among sensitive children, adolescents, and teenagers. More so, misophonia causes upsetting emotions and even intense anger around certain sounds. For instance, eating a family meal at the dinner table leads to anxiety and disgust around chewing sounds. Lip smacking, pen clicking, or other noises made by other human beings may be emotionally triggering. Even misophonia can cause teenagers to be emotionally upset by the sounds of others breathing. If your teenager is struggling with misophonia, holistic teen therapy can give them coping strategies.
Selective mutism is another reason to start in holistic teen therapy
Children and teenagers may develop selective mutism. With holistic teen therapy, children and teens with selective mutism can learn to feel safe speaking again. Selective mutism means that your teenager is feeling anxious or unsafe to vocalize in certain environments. For instance, your teenager may not speak in certain places like school or around certain family members. With selective mutism, young children may not speak at preschool or school. Sometimes, a child or teen will show selective mutism with one member of the family, but not others. Or, they will speak at school, but not at home. Holistic teen therapy can encourage your teenager to find their voice and confidently and comfortably speak. Anxiety and trauma coping mechanisms are part of holistic teen therapy when treating selective mutism.
Why start your depressed teenager at Wisdom Within Counseling?
We use a mixture of DBT therapies, art, yoga music and even outdoor walking sessions, to help teenagers and young adults build confidence. Creative, holistic teen therapy options support overcoming anxiety and heal after major traumas and losses. In holistic teen therapy, your young adult can make a self-soothe kit to practice self-care, self-regulate, and feel safe in times of high emotion.
To begin, click below to book your free phone consultation for teen counseling for creative, holistic adolescent and teen therapy.
Bed wetting is another reason to work with a holistic teen therapist
Your child or young adult might also be like wetting their bed. Your teenager with depression or anxiety may be struggling with sleeping through the night. After may years of sleeping independently, your adolescent now wants to sleep in your bed. AS well, if you teenager is having nightmares, holistic teen therapy can be a great way to help figure out the root cause. Your adolescent can build a positive coping toolbox in counseling sessions. Holistic therapy can help figure out what’s triggered some of bed wetting, sleeping issues and sleeping problems.
Impulsive behavior is a sign your teenager needs counseling
Maybe, your teenager is getting into conflicts with you. Perhaps, your adolescent is getting into arguments with siblings or friends. Teens who have impulsive behaviors like drinking or drug use need counseling. Other impulsive behaviors include self-harm, throwing things when mad, and driving when drunk. An impulsive teenager may also quickly submit to peer pressure. Teenagers with impulsivity may naively follow friends examples in clothing and activities and too easily accept the influence of peers.
Impulsive teenagers also show emotional responses that are intense, dramatic, and hurtful to others.
If you find your teenager lying or stealing, they need counseling sooner than later. Often, holistic, creative counseling can be a positive influence on your teen and help them think before they act. Holistic teen therapy improves decision making skills. As well, when adolescents struggle with anxiety, they show they are needing therapy through negative behaviors. These negative behaviors may include nail biting, skin picking, self-harm, cutting, stealing and other impulsive behaviors.
The team of holistic teen therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling would love to help your teen or your young adult thrive.
Counseling with holistic, creative options provides healthy outlets and healthy tools for releasing intense emotions. For instance, teenagers and young adults can release jealousy, loss, anger or anxiety.
If you have a child who’s anxious, an adolescent who’s depressed or a young adult who’s just needing a safe space to process some big emotions, we would love to help.
To begin, click below to book your free phone consultation for teen counseling for creative, holistic adolescent and teen therapy.
Holistic child and teen counseling provides healthy tools for releasing big feelings.
Our team of holistic therapists would love to help your teenager develop emotional confidence. Holistic teen therapy supports better self-esteem tools. Your adolescent can learn to let go of perfectionism and be emotionally prepared for college life and beyond. Video and in person holistic counseling is available for teenagers.
Talking about death, self-har, loss or suicidal thinking
If your child or teenager is asking questions about death, holistic teen therapy can help with understand death. Your adolescent may be wondering where people go when they die. Your depressed teenager may be telling you that they are so frustrated that they want to die themselves. These are concerning and show a need for holistic teen therapy. Do not ignore your teenager when they say they want to die because they’re overwhelmed or angry. Any mention of dying is a sign your teenager needs help professionally. Suicidal thinking and self-harming behavior are signs your depressed teenager needs help through DBT therapy and holistic creative counseling.
The team of holistic teen therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling teach positive coping tools to adolescents.
Every session, your child or your teen can feel stronger leaving counseling. Our goal is to help your young adult feel more confident and let go of their different stresses. Whether your adolescent is having separation anxiety, tearfulness, or low self-esteem, counseling can make a big difference in thier life.
What is unique about holistic teen therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling?
A mixture of art yoga, music and out-of-the-box nature therapies and really help teenagers thrive emotionally. Various emotional coping tools help adolescents and young adults build lifestyle skills. Holistic teen therapy support teenagers in coping with distressing emotions for the rest of their lives. At Wisdom Within Counseling, our team of therapists help teens with suicidal thinking, impulsivity, and self-harm. Creative, holistic adolescent and teen therapists help young adults develop alternatives to self-harm and a positive coping toolbox. Alternatives to traditional sitting and talking are available. With holistic teen therapy, teenagers can become emotionally prepared for all that life has to offer them.
Art therapies for depressed teenagers in counseling
We have painting materials, watercolors, clay to help your child or your teenager feel safe opening up. Art therapies are available over telehealth video counseling too. In addition, we use art and alternative, creative therapies to help teenagers feel safe talking about friendship issues. Games, going for a walk, or musical instruments help teens process social conflicts, competition and jealousy with siblings, sexual trauma, and divorce.
To begin, click below to book your free phone consultation for teen counseling for creative, holistic adolescent and teen therapy.
Walking nature therapy improve self-esteem
In addition, for teenagers and young adults, we offer outdoor walking sessions, to build self-regulation, frustration tolerance, positive self-care practices. Your teenager can go outside for a walking session to alleviate depression and anxiety. They can smell the salty fresh air by the beach. For mindfulness, they can even take their shoes off and put their bare feet in the sand. Overall, adolescents and young adults can gain coping tools to overcome anxiety through mind-body therapies.
Why out-of-the-box alternatives to traditional sitting and talking?
The team at Wisdom Within Counseling take teenagers and young adults outside. Holistic teen therapy offers options like throwing the ball around to build movement. Mind-body therapies help teenagers overcome depression through joyful mind-body connections like walking. And a lot of times, as adolescents and teenagers build a positive coping toolbox, the negative concerning behaviors will slowly reduce. Teenagers learn healthier, better ways to cope with panic, anxiety, and depression.
Holistic teen therapy supports teens in feeling more confident in their body and build emotional and mental stability.
Creative therapies in holistic teen counseling promote emotional confidence
At Wisdom Within Counseling, our team of therapists offer creative holistic therapies. And, ones that are specialized for teens who are depressed, anxious, impulsive, or self-harm or self-injure. When an adolescent has selective mutism or a sensory processing disorder, they need a unique out-of-the-box approach. As a whole, mind-body, holistic therapies help adolescents and teenagers love and accept themselves.
Creative alternatives in holistic teen therapy are all about building self-acceptance and self-love tools.
Overall, we help children and teenagers in a holistic way, that helps their mind and body connect. Holistic teen therapy offers creative options to build trust, build leadership, and self-esteem tools.
Working with a counselor helps your child overcome difficult emotions like anger, anxiety, jealousy, guilt, and shame.
We offer glitter gel pens, art therapies, yoga therapies, music therapies, walking therapies, and drama therapies. Options beyond words are a huge part of what we offer.
We would love to help your depressed teenager or your anxious young adult develop holistic, creative coping tools at Wisdom Within Counseling.
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