Children of divorce experience a range of stressors including struggling at school, feeling alone or scared, self-blame, and anxiety.
Welcome to Wisdom Within Counseling in Southeastern Connecticut! To note, as a team of holistic therapists, we provide anxious children and distant adolescents a safe place to let go. Moreover, our office is a nurturing suite where creative counseling clients from all over Southeastern Connecticut can feel encouragement. Divorce therapy in Connecticut helps children build self-esteem in ever-changing world of uncertainty. As parents separate, children move homes or start at new schools, Wisdom Within Counseling can help support your child along the way. Creative, play therapy in divorce therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut is available at Wisdom Within Counseling.
To begin, click the button below for a phone consult for divorce therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut.
Divorce therapy in Connecticut, helps children process loss, grief, anger, joy, blame, and happiness around divorce.
Really, it is very normal for children to have some type of reaction. Child therapy in Connecticut may address ADHD, lying, anger, or anxiety. Divorce can lead to anger, frequent crying, loss of appetite, and even trouble concentrating. And, holistic guidance and positive coping skills are supportive. As your child navigates through the challenges of life, we can help. No matter what your family is going through, whether depression, ADHD, childhood anxiety, or PTSD, there is hope. Divorce therapy in Connecticut includes art, yoga, music, and outdoor play therapies for children in need of a positive outlet.
Divorce counseling for children
To start, separating from your partner not only impacts you, but also your children. And, children can feel very differently than adults because they don’t have the words to process this big event. And, divorce might be a positive thing for you, but your children may have some negative feelings that need to be released. In child therapy in Niantic, we specialize in helping children, teens, and young adults process emotions around divorce. And, when children are involved in the divorce and receive specialized child counseling, your whole family benefits.
To begin, click the button below for your phone consult for divorce therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut.
How does expert child therapy boost self-confidence and help with frustration skills?
When your child has a safe place, they will be less frustrated at the functional parent, the one that is always there for them, probably you. Divorce therapy in Connecticut supports your child with coping with big emotions in healthy ways. Also, family therapy sessions can help your child feel safe and cared for. Finally, as a group of child therapists in Niantic, Connecticut, we help children thrive confidently and heal.
For an anxious child, the reality of divorce can lead to temper tantrums, aggression, kicking, screaming, the silent treatment, reckless teen behavior, and overall, anger.
Instead, creative child and adolescent therapy in Niantic, Connecticut teaches frustrated children positive coping outlets.
To get your frustrated child started feel more confident in child or family therapy in Niantic, call 860-451-9364.
How Niantic child therapy helps children process feelings around divorce?
So, when your whole family adjusts to divorce, divorce therapy in Connecticut can help the transition be smoother, calmer and less anxious. Overall, we offer support for releasing feelings in healthy ways for you as a parent, co-parenting sessions, and specialized child and teen therapy.
Plus, your child can use art, yoga, music and outdoor therapies to express their deep feelings and learn positive skills for self-confidence.
And, our holistic team of therapists in Niantic, Connecticut specialize in changing families and the impacts of divorce.
Holistic divorce therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut helps with the following symptoms
First, children show their emotions through behaviors. For one, your child may be having nightmares, crying more often, or angry. Sometimes, children withdraw socially, get more shy, or stop talking. Selective mutism may develop after a major family change.
Creative divorce therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut helps children stop blaming themselves for the separation
Sometimes, children blame themselves and feel guilty for parents separating. Often, children feel it is their fault. They wonder if they had been better behaved, if that would have kept their parents together. Therapy can help you child stop blaming themselves for the divorce. So, it is normal to see a regression in behaviors when a divorce is announced. Also, young children need help through play therapy to heal from the pressures of divorce.
Play therapy, art, yoga, and expressive arts help children adapt to two homes
Divorce therapy in Connecticut helps children with behavioral challenges express emotions in healthy ways. From specialized creative child therapy in Niantic, your child can feel supported and validated. Also, in child therapy, music, art, painting, nature, and the outdoors are part of the expression process. Furthermore, holistic divorce therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut allows children and teenagers to have a safe place. Having a place to talk outside of changing homes promotes self-confidence and healing.
Then, as new, holistic, creative coping skills develop, self-harm and problem behaviors will naturally stop.
For instance, bed wetting, stomach aches, head aches, anxiety, school avoidance, depression, tiredness, anger, frustration, and crying are all expressions of needing a safe place, such as a therapist office. Therefore, helping children adjust to divorce includes child therapy sessions as well as individual parent support sessions weekly.
Wisdom Within Counseling specializes in supporting children of divorce. Click the button below to get started.
Each child reacts differently to divorce
First off, divorce is not easy for parents or children. But, having a child therapist support your youngster can be helpful for your whole family. Even if your child seems fine with your family’s changes, a child therapist can help your child process their own feelings about the divorce. Further, your child may not show you their true feelings because he or she doesn’t feel like picking sides. And, children often won’t talk to parents. Sometimes, children feel like they will hurt their parents’ feelings by speaking. Other times, children don’t want to say the wrong thing. Emotions run high in a divorcing family. Helping children adjust to divorce means getting a child therapist, a professional outside of your family. Divorce therapy in Connecticut can help your child improve their self-esteem and confidence long-term.
Why a child needs a therapist outside of their family because they feel pulled between sides?
To note, this is because your child is feeling pulled between picking sides and not wanting to betray you. Furthermore, even if divorce is a positive step, it is a time of sadness, change, loss, and can include childhood anxiety. In specialized, creative child therapy in Niantic, you child can use art, yoga, music, animals, and the outdoor to express their feelings in positive ways. And, these are all lifelong positive outlets for wellness too. Read more about childhood anxiety, here.
Moving between homes – Divorce therapy in Connecticut
Likewise, helping children adjust to divorce means getting the support of weekly child therapy sessions. For one, your child has always known the definition of your family to look one way. But, now, your family will be totally and completely different. Moving homes, having separate holidays, and not seeing both parents in one day can be hard. Divorce therapy in Connecticut can help support your child communicate anxiety and fears and stop blaming themselves.
Moreover, your child, adolescent, or teen can learn positive coping skills for self-confidence through divorce through creative art, yoga, music and outdoor therapies to express their deep feelings in healthy ways.
We have a variety of musical instruments to help with emotional expression and releasing big feelings.
How can you, as a parent, help your child adjust to divorce?
For parents, helping children adjust to divorce means keeping healthy boundaries, keeping conflict low. So, not sharing your aggravation about your ex with your children and seeking weekly individual counseling yourself are a good start. Further, in parent support sessions, our team of mental health therapists help you learn the best ways to help your child adjust to divorce.
Parenting support in divorce counseling sessions
And, parents often have guilt and benefit from spending time working on their own emotions with a professional therapist. Divorce therapy supports parents too. It can be difficult co-parenting and working with a challenging ex-partner. Sometimes, parents need help processing and letting go of anxiety, loss, overwhelm and anger. Maybe, your ex-parent is moving on very quickly and introducing their new boyfriend or girlfriend to your child. And, if and when you start dating again, your child’s therapist can help him or her begin readjusting to that change too. In summary, helping children adjust to divorce in Niantic through holistic, child therapy is a three to nine month process.
Parenting tip for divorce: Stay healthy yourself
To continue, avoid talking badly about your child’s other parent. Likewise, don’t blame your child’s other parent, even if you are hurt or angry. When you feel triggered, the best thing you can do to help your child adjust to divorce is remain respectful and centered. In reality, bashing your child’s other parent will hinder your bond, trust, and attachment with your child.
To add, children love and need both of their parents in order to have a healthy sense of self in teen and adult years. So, demonizing their other parent will not make them love you more.
Seek individual counseling as a parent can help parents reduce chaos and co-parenting conflicts
And, your child really shouldn’t hear about the issues that went on in your relationship with your ex, no matter how bad. Remember, seeking your own individual counseling is positive self-care. In conclusion, children can easily experience a loyalty conflict. And, talking negatively about your child’s other parent will prevent an open, honest talk as your child will feel like they have to pick sides.
Divorce therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut helps children express anger, anxiety, sadness, and frustration in positive ways.
Lastly, children need to feel that both of their parents love them and that they are valuable because each child is a mixture of both parents.
Click the button below to get your child of divorce started in holistic child counseling in Niantic today.
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Helping children adjust to divorce is possible through divorce therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut
To start, your child might be angry and frustrated after you tell them about your decision to get divorced. Your child might run out of the room, might start throwing a temper tantrum, or might get very quiet and go through months of selective mutism or refusing to speak. Thus, every child experiences, feels, and reacts to divorce in a unique way. A child experiencing divorce needs a therapist, a professional outside of their family. Furthermore, your child’s therapist can provide your child with tools and techniques to normalize the divorce.
As well, your child’s therapist can teach positive coping skills through art, yoga, music, and animal therapies.
And, these techniques support your child’s feelings, offer ways of releasing besides just talking, and overall help your child adjust to divorce more smoothly. Read more about fostering your child’s emotional awareness, here.
We would love to help support your family and child through divorce.
