What Age Can A Child Start Therapy?
Did you know, toddlers and preschoolers can feel emotions and need help processing them? Children who can’t talk can use play therapy to express their feelings. As well, children can tell their story of change, loss, or fear through play therapy in Essex, Connecticut. At Wisdom Within Counseling, our team helps children and teenagers thrive. Play therapy is the language of a child and brings out confidence. Fear, worry, and even jealously can come out as anger or emotional meltdowns. Furthermore, toddlers can use play food, crayons, and toys to express big feelings. We offer musical instruments, art materials, and action figures in play therapy. In addition, we teach Essex, Connecticut adolescents and teenagers who anxiety and depression healthy coping tools.
How does counseling in Essex, Connecticut benefit children and teenagers?
At Wisdom Within Counseling, parents and children can gain positive bonding skills. Children benefit from play therapy, creative arts, and outdoor play therapies. Also, children may have bet wetting issues, sibling arguments, socially become shy, and get frustrated easily. Child therapy can help children have a safe place to release big feelings. If your child has experienced having a parent with alcoholism, been through abuse, or seen violence, play therapy can help. Our team at Wisdom Within Counseling supports children with anxiety, teens with depression, and LGBTQIA+ and queer young adults. As well, teenagers who are self–harming, cutting, impulsive, or angry benefit from counseling. In counseling, children and teenagers can learn positive ways to release anger, anxiety, and worry in counseling in Essex, CT.
To begin, click below for a phone consult for child and teen therapy in Essex, Connecticut.
One reasons to start children and teen in counseling in Essex, Connecticut are school difficulties
Sometimes, children start to do poorly in school and this is a sign for therapy. Many children struggle with school and this leads to low self-esteem. Children who have better grades often feel better about themselves. Struggling with math, science, or even PE can mean a child is getting bullied in that class. Not wanting to do school work and having low motivation are signs of depression. Also, shirt sucking, nail biting, thumb sucking and social and emotional challenges are signs therapy can help.
Child and teen therapy can help children overcome social and friendship issues.
Maybe, your child says that no one likes them or they only have a few friends. These are signs counseling at Wisdom Within in Essex, Connecticut can help with self-esteem. Family moves, divorces, family separations, conflicts, changing homes, and losses of loved ones can lead to problems in school.
Divorces can impact children in a negative way and lead to the following symptoms. For instance, if your child or teen is acting younger than their chronological age, they can benefit from therapy. Also, when your child or teen is showing fear of being apart from parents, this can be a need to counseling. Parents can learn positive ways to help their child build capabilities and confidence.
Symptoms in children and teenagers and reasons to seek counseling
When children and adolescents are experiencing moodiness or impulsivity, holistic counseling in Essex, Connecticut can help. Positive coping tools can help with processing anger, anxiety, worry, and jealousy. If your child experiences acting out, seems manipulative or lies, child therapy can help. As well, holistic counseling helps teens who are experiencing sadness and depression.
Adolescents who are self-harming may be feeling overwhelm, guilt, or loss. If your teenager is having sleep or eating problems, our team at Wisdom Within Counseling in Essex, Connecticut can help.
We love supporting children and teenagers in build confidence and emotional coping tools.
To begin, click below for a phone consult for child and teen therapy in Essex, Connecticut.
Children who experience sexual abuse or molestation have issues in school.
Living through domestic violence and having a parent who a mental health issues can cause problems in school. Likewise, living through any sort of trauma makes it hard to concentrate in school. Family therapy, child therapy, and teen therapy in Essex, Connecticut can support your whole family. Even if your child goes through something positive, like a new sibling being born, can cause emotional changes in your child. Any transitions in life, housing issues, or family conflict can lead to problems academically. Furthermore, trauma lads to developmental delays in milestones for many children.
Another reasons to get into child and teen therapy in Essex Connecticut are self-injurious behaviors
The team at Wisdom Within Counseling help self-harming teens who self-injure. Sometimes, a teenager will cut themselves or harm their skin to escape an emotion. Also, children may head bang or hit themselves with an item. Parents may also need help stopping their children from getting into physical fights or hitting each other. Furthermore, self-injury, cutting, self-harming, and head banging can be assessed by a therapist at Wisdom Within Counseling. So, family therapy and child therapy help with reducing sibling rivalry and sibling conflicts. Learning conflict resolution skills in childhood promotes healthy romantic relationships in adulthood. From counseling, your teenager can have activities, go for a walk, and bake as alternatives to self-harm.
Social skills and overcoming social anxiety through
Children and teens may benefit from therapy to learn to be more outgoing. Social anxiety make cause stuttering or quietness. When a person has social anxiety, they may feel embarrassed more or lack eye contact. Your child may be attached to you or comfortable at their home. It can be hard to get creative to find ways for your child or teen to get social. Also, your child or teenager can develop self-motivation from counseling in Essex, Connecticut. Oftentimes, holistic counseling, art therapy, music counseling, and yoga therapy offer coping tools.
Coping with frustrations over things outside of their control
Wisdom Within Counseling in Essex, Connecticut offers art, yoga, music, and outdoor therapies for self-esteem and emotional expression.
Teenagers who are bored may end up with alcoholism, or troubles with teen drinking. After divorce, or a major family loss, teenagers are more susceptible to teen drinking. Peer pressure and alcoholism are very common. On the weekends, your teenager may be feelings pressure to belong and drink too much alcohol. Also, therapy can teach your teenager to learn to say, “No,” and have self-confidence.
To begin, click below for a phone consult for child and teen therapy in Essex, Connecticut.
So, seek out counseling at Wisdom Within if you child or teen experiences excessive worry about the future or engages in negative behavior more frequently. As well, if your adolescent or teenager talks about or engages in any kind of self-harm, cutting, stealing, or head banging.
If your child or teenager develops problems in multiple areas of life, such as family relationships, friends, or academic performance, holistic therapy would help.
Wisdom Within Counseling can help if your child has lost interest in leisure activities and friendships.
Your teenager may tell you, “I wish I was dead,” or “Nobody would care if I died.”
On that note, any threats to their life are concerns. Furthermore, working with a therapist at Wisdom Within Counseling can help see the best course of action. If your child or adolescent has repetitive, self-destructive behaviors such as hair-pulling, nail biting, or skin-picking, creative therapy can help. Child therapy at Wisdom Within helps your child, who feels bad about themselves, rebuild self-confidence and self-esteem. If your child or teenager appears to be less confident, they can learn positive coping tools.
At Wisdom Within Counseling in Essex, Connecticut, children and teens can have a safe place to explore emotions.
Lastly, anxiety and worry can have a place to be released at Wisdom Within.
