Does your teen struggle with healthy friendship boundaries and dating?
To add, counseling can help your teenager have a healthy outlet for challenging, difficult emotions. Unfortunately, when a teenager does not have a healthy outlet, they often resort to the directions their peers are giving them. Maybe, a peer is asking your a teenager to send them a sexual photo and naked picture. If your adolescent has a safe place, such as a therapist’s office, they will be much more aware of predators and negative dating behaviors. But, when a teen does not have a safe place such as a counselor’s office, they are more likely to use their body in a sexual way for attention. Maybe, your teenager has already texted people naked photos of themselves. Often, shame, guilt, anger, and embarrassment are present.
Even if embarrassing moments are part of your teenager’s story, holistic, creative counseling can help your teenager rebuild their self-esteem and rebuild confidence.
Working with a creative, holistic Mystic, CT teen therapist can help your teenager put themselves first verses letting friends walk all over them
Does your teenager have negative friends that influence them in the wrong way?
Often times, teenage years are the first time dating happens. Maybe, your teenager is talking about their sexual orientation and has come out with pansexual or bisexual. However, they are now just beginning to physically explore. To add, Mystic, Ct teen therapy can provide tools for healthy friendship boundaries. Manytimes, teenagers fall for negative friendships because they don’t know how to put themselves first. Often times, we work with highly sensitive teenagers that are very empathetic. However, they tend to be the caretaker in the friendships and attract more toxic friends.
Is your teenager dating and needing a safe place to talk about sex?
Your teenager might be struggling to stop texting a friend at midnight and need support developing confidence to go to bed. Or, your teenager feels they “have to” respond or they fear their friend won’t be their friend anymore. So, adolescents are dealign with a jugging a lot of peer pressure. Maybe, your teenager has a friend that has been threatening your teenager. Or, your adolescent has a friend who has come out as transgender and now likes your teenager.
Overall, dating and healthy friendship boundaries are what our team of Mystic, CT teen therapists love to talk about.
Plus, talking about sex allows a teenager to know that it’s okay to talk to their therapist about actual activity. As well, if you’re a teenager has a safe place to talk about sexual activity, they are more likely to talk about if they have been sexually abused or sexually her in someway. Your adolescent may not realize it is okay to talk about sex at all, even if it doesn’t feel right to them. At Wisdom Within Counseling, we specialize in helping safe sex conversations be smoother and easier between teenagers and parents. If you want more confidence as a parent to talk to your teenager about dating or their sexual activity, working with a Mystic, CT teen therapist is a great way to feel parental support.
Teen self-harm, cutting, and self-injury
Also, Wisdom Within Counseling specializes with teenagers who have past hospitalization due to suicidal thinking. Sometimes, teenagers will cut and injure their arms and legs in other parts of their body. Essentially, if you’re a teenager is self harming or cutting themselves, this is severe. Also, because your teenager told you they were self harming just one time, they could still be cutting themselves. Through specialized adolescent counseling, we can assess if your teenager is suicidal. As well, if your teenager has suicidal thinking, or self harm urges, their therapist can help them find alternatives. Often, in teen therapy in Mystic, CT, we help teenagers learn healthier ways to cope.
How does working with a Mystic, CT teen therapist help reduce self-harming and cutting?
At times, teenagers with depression may blame themselves or feel guilty and not know what to do. Often, intense emotions may include loss, irritation, sadness, a heart break, school stress, anger, and annoyance. So, in that moment with all those intense emotions, a teenager will cut their skin and self harm. From working with a Mystic, CT teen therapist, your teenager can have a positive and professional therapist to guide them in a healthy direction.
If your teenager is self-harming, their Mystic, CT teen therapist can help you understand how to make your home safe place.
Your teenager’s therapist can also go over a safety plan if they have suicidal thinking with you as a parent. Also, a lot of times, having a suicidal or self harming teenager means that other siblings have emotions. So, family counseling can be a good place for all to process as well. Furthermore, family counseling sessions can be part of your teenagers counseling when it comes to stopping self harm behaviors. In addition, we offer a creative and holistic approach to helping teenagers be a leader in their own life. Often, teenagers feel hopeless and helpless.
Therefore, by incorporating art therapies, walking sessions by the beach, and drama therapy into counseling, we provide teenagers a variety of ways to express their emotions.
What are signs your teenager needs a Mystic, CT teen therapist who specializes in eating disorder therapy?
Maybe, your adolescent or teenager has a lot of anxiety around food. So, they can only eat certain types of foods. Or, they can’t eat out at a restaurant or is there a very large amounts of foods. As well, your teenager may go to the bathroom immediately after eating to make themselves throw up when they have an eating disorder. Sometimes, you don’t even realize this behavior is going on in the amount of anxiety or teenagers feeling around eating. Often times, eating disorders, anorexia, and bulimia are behaviors in secret. So, getting your do you need your help sooner than later it will be very important for them to develop emotional coping tools and body confidence.
Treating eating disorders in adolescents and teenagers by working with a creative, holistic Mystic, CT teen therapist
In addition, the team at Wisdom Within Counseling specializes with teenagers who have eating disorders. Maybe, you recently took your teenager to their pediatrician because they have been losing weight. Often times, adolescents and teenagers are put on anxiety medication for obsessive compulsive disorder and anxiety when they have an eating disorder. Frequently, our team of counselors work with adolescents and teenagers who need help building a healthier and more nurturing relationship with food.
Is your teenager measuring food before eating, and critical and hard on themselves?
Perhaps, your teenager is measuring all of their food before they can eat it. Or, your teenager has rigid and strict food behaviors. In addition, you may notice that your adolescent or teenager has lost a severe amount of weight recently. At Wisdom Within Counseling, we specialize with teenagers with eating disorders who also have compulsive exercise behaviors. Also, even though your teenager is losing weight and is struggling to eat even one meal a day, they are running and pushing themselves physically to their very edge.
We specialize with teens who have compulsive and obsessive exercise behaviors in an effort to lose weight.
Frequently, teenagers are told by culture and society that they need to be slimmer and skinnier. And, they feel that they need to lose weight or look a certain way in order to be acceptable.
At Wisdom Within Counseling, we help teenagers learn how to eat intuitively and how to love themselves through food.
We help adolescents with disordered eating and eating disorders learn how to nurture themselves. Plus, working with a Mystic, CT teen therapist can help them step away from negative cultural stereotypes around food. As well, in adolescent counseling, we specialize in helping teenagers who have low self-esteem develop a healthy body image. Sometimes, teenagers learn from their friends and peers that they should criticize their body.
Is there a teenager calling themselves fat in the mirror or body shaming themselves?
Do you notice any of your teenager’s friends body shaming or criticizing your teenager’s body?
In general, Mystic, CT teen therapy is a safe place for your teenager to build a loving and healthy relationship with their food and body. As well, our teen therapists teach teenagers with eating disorders lifelong coping tools to love themselves. And, these holistic skills teach adolescents how to accept themselves. So, if you’re a teenager has disordered eating or really strange eating habits, our team specializes with adolescents who struggle feeding themselves.
To begin, click the button below for a phone consult to work with a Mystic, CT teen therapist today.
We often work with teenagers and adolescents who have a variety of complex challenges. So, your teenager may have just gotten out of the hospital for a suicide attempt. And, your teenager is also struggling with an eating disorder like bulimia.
In session, creative art can be healing. So, painting or using glitter gel pens as well as drawing are always available to your adolescent.
As well, working with a Mystic, CT teen therapist supports creative emotional expressions. Often, our team of adolescent specialists find that adolescents do better with creative and holistic options. And, teenagers can talk beyond just words to express intense emotions. Maybe, your teenager wants to paint to express jealousy, anger, or sadness. Many times, and adolescent who is self harming does not want to be asked by a adult directly why they are self harming. So, to build trust and open that creative path for talking, we offer drama therapies, art, yoga, music, and walking therapies. Also, for a teenager to realize there is brightness to the world, they need creative art and holistic options. Lastly, we specialize in helping adolescents and teenagers calm their mind down.
By working with a Mystic, CT teen therapist, your adolescent can develop lifelong skills and gain mental relief through creative counseling.
Alcohol use
In general, teenagers are more prone to impulsive behaviors. Also, teenagers are more susceptible to peer pressure and teen drinking. Teenagers may quickly change their behaviors in response to their emotions. Sometimes, teenagers will often drink alcohol out of wanting to numb out anger, depression, or anxiety. Maybe, your teenager has been drinking alcohol more frequently.
Having your adolescent meet with a Mystic, CT teen therapist helps them say no to peer pressure and have better self-esteem
After school, your teen plans to goto the library to study. But, your teenager’s friends start telling them to drink the alcohol they stole from their parent’s liquor cabinet. And, your teenagers report that their friends pressure them to drink alcohol more than this one time. Often, teenagers want to feel a sense of belonging. Not only are teens feeling pressure from their peers, they are also struggling with eating disorders, substance abuse, a learning disability, or OCD.
To begin, click the button below for a phone consult to work with a creative, holistic, expressive arts Mystic, CT teen therapist.
LGBTQIA+ pansexual, bisexual, gay, gender questioning, transgender adolescents and teenagers
Maybe, you teenager in the Mystic, Connecticut community feels like they don’t fit in anywhere. Often times, the team at Wisdom Within Counseling works with teenagers with depression who identify as non-binary. For one, your teenager or adolescent might be telling you that they want to transition to a different gender. As a parent, you may feel a variety of emotions from confusion to wanting to learn more about LGBTQIA+. In addition, our team specializes with gender and sexuality in adolescent and family counseling.
So, our team of therapists specialize with transgender adolescents and gender questioning teenagers as well as same-sex parents.
Often times, a teenager with depression needs a safe place to understand the influence of peers and friends. And, from being in Mystic, CT adolescent counseling, your teenager can have a place to gain self-awareness and mental clarity. As well, your adolescent can gain positive coping tools to say no to peer pressure from holistic counseling. Wisdom Within Counseling offers parents books on understanding gender and sexuality. So, parents and the whole family can become more LGBTQIA affirming themselves. Most often, transgender, gender questioning, and bisexual teenagers feel like they don’t fit in.
How do I find a therapist for my teenager?
To start, the first place to look is by understanding you need a youth specialist. Manytimes, anxious adolescents and depressed teenagers will not do well with video counseling. Often, an adolescent or teenager is needing an in person, face to face approach. At Wisdom Within Counseling, we specialize in counseling anxious adolescents and depressed teenagers. Also, we offer a variety of creative therapies that teach positive coping tools. Frequently, anxious adolescents and depressed teenagers can not talk like an adult could about negative feelings.
Creative, holistic art therapies, drama therapies, and walking by the beach supports anxious adolescents and depressed teenagers
Manytimes, traditional sit and talk counseling alone leads to boredom in therapy. At times, your anxious adolescent or depressed teenager may have a lot they want to talk about. But, when talking is difficult or your teenager doesn’t want to talk, Wisdom Within Counseling specializes in creative, drama, art, painting, play and walk and talk therapies. We help the teenagers that the world labels at the most difficult learn to pause before acting impulsively.
