Child therapy can help children open up emotionally and love themselves. As well, child therapists in Southeastern Connecticut help kids believe in themselves. Child therapists specialize in helping children tell their story through play therapy. Now, your child may have ADHD, obsessive thoughts, afraid, or have concerning behaviors. Art, yoga, music, and animal therapies are a part of holistic child therapy in Mystic, Connecticut. Holistic, creative play therapies help children with anxiety make new friends.
Emotional expression skills help children feel prepared for social situations.
Child therapists in Mystic, Connecticut help children with anxiety and irrational fears find their strengths.
Therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling helps children of all ages build positive strategies to cope with anger. Children can learn helpful thinking patterns to replace obsessive thoughts or negative fears. Holistic, creative, healthy behavioral habits are part of child counseling.
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A holistic, creative child therapist will meet with your child and understand why they have concerning behaviors.
As well, child therapy may be with parent and children together and or the child themselves. Nature therapies, animal therapies, creative child centered play therapy, and art therapies help children process big, tense emotions.
Why start in child therapy in Stonington, Connecticut at Wisdom Within Counseling?
Anxiety and depression
Depression or anxiety are reasons to start in child therapy. Your child’s counselor can use toy, books, play dough, animals, and creative art therapies to support self-esteem. Mood changes like anxiety and depression are common for all ages, but commonly start during the adolescent years. Furthermore, children who have a sudden drop in grades may be depressed. Child therapy in Mystic, Connecticut supports overcoming academic changes and struggles.
Low self-esteem and special needs
Children who are bullied may have low self-esteem. If your child has selective mutism or sensory processing disorder, child centered play therapy can help them find their voice. As well, children who have speech apraxia, speech delays, or speech impediments may be bullied more. Children who have low self-esteem may want to stay home verses hang out at camp or with friends. A change in mood can be a sign your child is suffering with low self-esteem. Holistic child therapy in Mystic, Connecticut can help your child build confidence.
Self-harm in adolescents
Cutting or burning the skin are common self-harm behaviors in teenagers. Children with autism may do head-banging behaviors when in distress or upset. Also, children and teenagers may self-injure by picking acne or skin follicles. Self-harm is commonly concealable, so parents may not know it is happening. Furthermore, some teenagers choose to pierce the ears, belly buttons, or skin.
Self-harm can lead to infections without proper cleaning of the cut or piercing. Dialectical behavioral therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling teaches adolescents skills to deal with intense emotions. Likewise, coping tools and strategies for letting go for anger, insecurity, fear, or anxiety are part of DBT therapy. DBT therapies at Wisdom Within Counseling support teens who take part in self-harm behaviors.
Eating disorders
Anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder, ARFID, and body image issues are great reasons to start in child therapy in Mystic Connecticut. You may notice changes in your adolescent’s weight or eating behaviors. Your teenager may have disordered eating habits and fears around foods due to body image issues. Eating disorder therapy is very important sooner than later.
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Therapy helps your teenager learn to build a loving, nurturing relationship with food and their body.
Teenagers will get more severe in their disordered eating habits without help. If your teenager wants to change their body shape or their weight, they need to work with an eating disorder specialist. At Wisdom Within Counseling, we offer the speciality of eating disorder therapy for children. Weight. Also, adolescents with eating disorders like anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder, and ARFID have an reoccupation with calories.
A hyper focus on body shape and body image is a signal of a disordered relationship with food.
Perps, your teenager is skipping meals, living off caffeine, and over exercising. With They may very well have body image issues even if they are no underweight. Not all teenager with body image issues and eating disorders look sickly.
A person who look s”perfectly healthy” may be deeply struggling with an eating disorder. As well, laxatives, dieting, and living off protein shakes are signs of an eating disorder.
Child therapy in Mystic, Connecticut helps teenagers with eating disorders stop dieting and love themselves
Extreme diets like the Keto diet, Ideal protein diets, Atkins diet, intermittent fasting diet, no fat diets, no sugar diets, and no carb diets are signs of an eating disorder. To note, our culture normalizes dieting, but extreme diets are signs of an eating disorder. Wisdom Within Counseling teaches intuitive eating skills. We teach that no food is good or bad, but all foods can be neutral.
We are affirming and supportive of queer, non-binary, gay, bisexual, pansexual, lesbian, gender questioning, LGBTQIA+ transgender children.
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Death and grief
Young children need help processing big concepts like death and loss. Losing a beloved pt can be a major trauma and loss for a young adult. Unresolved loss can create problems in adulthood. A parents divorce can be considered a loss and cause a child to feel sad.
As well, sexual trauma is a loss that child therapy in Mystic, Connecticut with processing. Having one parent working out of the home for extended periods of time can lead to loss. For instance, if one parent works internationally or is in the military, this can lead to sadness. Play therapies, art therapies, yoga therapies, and animal therapies are parts of grief counseling in Stonington, Connecticut.
Peer pressure problems are a great reason to start in child therapy in Mystic Connecticut
Peer pressure causes children to change how they would normally behave to try to fit in. Also, peer pressure may be happening without parents truly knowing. Peer pressures can be subtle or unnoticeable at first. Children and adolescent may change how they dress or talking to fit in. Children always want a sense of social belonging and to fit in. Children can learn from counseling in Southeastern Connecticut to separate themselves from peers. Autonomy, independence help children be authentic in themselves rather than being swayed by peer pressure.
We support families in Connecticut and Florida.
Areas of Connecticut we offer therapy are as follows, but not limited to Ivoryton, East Haddam, Hartford, West Hartford, Glastonbury, Farmington, Simsbury, Middlebury, Waterbury, Rye, Bloomfield, Wilton, Westport, Danbury, Salem, Bozrah, Old Saybrook, Meriden, Middletown, Old Lyme, East Lyme, Franklin, Griswold, Groton, Ledyard, Lisbon, Montville, Plainfield, Manchester, Waterford, New London, Stonington, North Stonington, and Plainville.
Changing themselves to behave in a way that their friends think is acceptable shows low self-esteem.
Peer pressure causes teen drug use, alcohol use, and partying take place. To note, hazing and physical abuse are also forms of peer pressure is more direct and hurtful. For instance, peer pressure and the desire to fit in can cause a child to say yes to something when they are uncomfortable saying no due to fears of facing social rejection or being an outcast. Therapy helps children gain confidence to handle pressure from peers to do things they don’t want to do.
