Does your pre-teen say, “I’m too fat? I need to eat less?” Are you concerned that your teen has an eating disorder or OCD with food?
Does your child struggle with bullying, shyness, or low self-esteem?
Does your pre-teen say in frustration, “You just don’t get me! No one understand me. I hate myself.”
Is your middle schooler is gender questioning, non binary, or transgender?
Does your teenager struggle with selective mutism or sensitivity to sounds?
Child and teen therapy in Niantic, Connecticut can support a number of issues youth a facing these days. Young children may have hyperactivity, trouble concentrating, and social skills challenges. A middle schooler may be liking others, flirting, and needing help beginning to date. As well, teenagers with an eating disorder may secretly be dieting, trying to lose weight, or feel shame around their body shape and weight. Any signs of depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, trouble sleeping, or over sleeping are reasons to get help. If your child or teenager was once bubbly and outgoing, and now they are shy and timid, child and teen therapy in Niantic, Connecticut can help. At Wisdom Within Counseling, we specialize in unique, creative, holistic therapies for youth.
We help middle school and pre-teens to have a better body image and more self-confidence for high school years. We are an artsy, creative counseling practice that teaches teenagers social skills and skills for self-love. Adolescents and young adults can gain self-esteem skills from child and teen therapy in Niantic, Connecticut.
To begin, click the button below for a phone consult for child and teen therapy in Niantic, Connecticut.
Holistic Child, Teen, Family, and Marriage Counseling For The Whole Family
Need help making yourself a priority again after being drained from caring too much for others who don’t give back?
Wanting an LGBTQIA+ affirming and transgender educated counselor to understand your non-binary teen?
Want your frustrated, anxious child to feel nurtured and calmly express their needs?
Does your anxious child or adolescent need healthy, emotional coping skills and confidence?
Need help gaining a healthy body image and positive relationship with food?
After betrayal and loss, do you need help creating a passionate, honest, long-lasting, and playful romantic relationship?
Does your depressed teen need help stopping self-harm and cutting?
Needing help overcoming roommate syndrome and gaining communication, joy, laughter, intimacy, and connection again?
Would you like to paint, do art, yoga, or walk and talk by the beach as a lifelong coping tool?
Needing help overcoming negative past memories and trauma and releasing intense feelings like hurt, sadness, and anger?
Do you want your insecure adolescent to set boundaries with peers, feel a sense of belonging, and believe in themselves again?
Is your relationship and family going through a major transition and needing clarity, hope, and togetherness?
We Specialize In Helping Anxious Kids, Depressed Teens, and Distant Couples Build Positive, Meaningful Relationships
To start, click below to book your free phone consult to gain confidence and clarity through therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut!
If your relationship is conflictual, you’re in the right place for emotional connection and couples therapy.
Couples Therapy in Southeastern Connecticut
Finding your partner keeping secrets, lying, or cheating can lead to intense feelings of betrayal and anger too. Additionally, you may feel there are sexual difficulties. However, you and your partner have a strong desire to get the passion and spark back in your romance. The team at Wisdom Within Counseling are a group of East Lyme therapists who love helping couples.
Right now, you may feel exhausted, down, and anxious about the state pf your romantic relationship.
Do you feel angry, hurt, and confused and want better communication?
Is your spouse coming out or is their gender identity changing?
Do you get into arguments with yelling, name calling, or door slamming?
Signs to get started in couples therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut
You may feel that your marriage is lonely and distant at times. Additionally, you might be having the same frustrating fight over and over, and it never gets resolved. Maybe you feel hopeless after an argument and you sleep separately. There may be a deep hurt and betrayal behind your anger. Therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut at Wisdom Within Counseling supports calm communication and emotional connection.
Unresolved conflict can lead to trouble sleeping, low motivation, physical stomach and head aches.
Your holistic, creative couples therapist can help you create healthy and positive relationships in your life. With marriage and family therapy, you and your partner can also learn effective communication skills to tackle past trauma together in a supportive way. Your therapist can also help you heal from emotional pain, hurt, and betrayal, and rebuild trust and meaningful connection with your partner.
Why Start Marriage and Relationship Therapy in Southeastern Connecticut?
Couples may feel distant, stop talking to one another in a fight, or have concerns about sex drive. In arguments, maybe you don’t feel heard. Couples therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut at Wisdom Within Counseling helps if when you deeply want to feel supported, recreate trust, and improve communication.
If your romantic relationship is not where you want it to be, couples therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut can help.
In your childhood, did you feel torn between your parents who got into intense conflicts? We often don’t learn how to build the best partnerships in childhood from our parents.
You and your partner may also benefit from counseling if you have experiences of trauma like having an alcoholic parent.
You may have experiences of loss of loved ones or loss of a parent. Receiving life altering, devastating news is another reason couples benefit from having a safe place in therapy.
Yelling and door slamming seems to be a negative part of all fights that are happening right now.
Working with a holistic marriage counselor when dealing with loss, loneliness, betrayal and distance can help you have a safe place to slow down. You can talk about what you need when you are upset, rebuild trust, and create playfulness. Also, you can talk about your experience of your parents in your childhood, whether positive or negative, and create reach a new level of loving each other.
Marriage counseling supports high conflict, fighting couples, and couples who have lost touch like two ships passing in the night.
As a team of marriage and family therapists, we would love to help you connect within, create life balance, and care for yourself. We offer creative, holistic coping tools to building the long-lasting marriage you desire. Distant couples in distress have a safe place to unload it all.
Let the Wisdom Within Counseling team of therapist in East Lyme, Connecticut help you remember your marriage values. From better communication, to emotional intimacy, our marriage therapists can help.
We help your overcome intense, painful, negative communication tactics in your marriage and instead teach you how to build a healthy, meaningful communication skills.
Would you like help to express anger, jealousy, frustration, loss, and betrayal in a calm way? Do you want your partner to listen and hear you? Working with a couples therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling helps you create a more loving, purposeful relationship. As holistic counselors, we empower couples how to grow out of old, negative communication patterns and create a calm, positive, and nurturing connection.
Couples may begin fighting because they have a history of trauma and need help building intimate, emotional connection.
Do you feel stuck in a conflict cycle with your spouse, feel like bored roommates, or needing help feeling emotionally close?
Our team of couples therapists help you build healthy communication skills and also help you talk calmly to each other.
To begin, click below for your phone consult for confidence and clarity thorough therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut.
Couples therapy can be a safe place to heal after an affair, infidelity, lying, dishonesty, or secret keeping.
Our team can help you slow down, discuss topics that seem conflictual, and also set positive goals for your future together. Additionally, marriage counseling can help you gain clarity on what you both what for the future of your relationship.
Child and Teen Therapy in Southeastern Connecticut
Your child can learn tools to handle anxiety, fear, anticipation, anger and frustration in holistic, healthy ways.
If your child or young adult feels pressure to be perfect, counseling can help. Wisdom Within Counseling supports adolescents and young adults with anxiety, fear, worries, depression, and also frustration. Perhaps, your adolescent or teenager feels overwhelmed with peer stress, school drama, getting good grades, and needs emotional confidence. Holistic therapy supports self-empowerment and can also help your young adult develop autonomy.
At Wisdom Within Counseling, children, adolescents and young adults can gain self-worth skills, learn to believe in themselves again, and also create more positive friendships.
Our holistic marriage and family therapists in East Lyme, Connecticut can also help your child or teenager learn ways to cope with anger, anxiety, and loss through self-acceptance tools.
Signs Your Child or Young Adult Will Benefit From Therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut
After your child or family has been through challenging, big life events, our team of holistic marriage and family therapists can help you and your child build a toolbox for creating inner peace and confidence. When families are in conflict or parents are divorcing, children may become frustrated easily.
Additionally, self-harm, mood swings, anxiety, lack of friends, anger, or the silent treatment are signs your child or teenager needs support.
Adolescents and siblings may be fighting, hitting, yelling, or in competition. Also, loss of a grandparent or having a parent with mental health issues can be stressful for children.
You might notice emotional meltdowns, disruptive behaviors, or anxious behaviors develop.
Children and adolescents needing therapy may also be socially withdrawn, struggle to make and keep friends, feel depressed, or get into trouble.
Your adolescent may be using they/them pronouns, wanting a name change, or is coming out as bisexual or non-binary.
Maybe, your child stopped speaking, is very sensitive, and has selective mutism.
A lot of times, children just get frustrated and angry when they don’t know how to release emotions and let go.
How do creative arts help support children and teens?
Holistic walking and talking therapies support depressed teenagers in joyful movement. Being outside in nature calms the nervous system and allows one to feel a sense of inner peace.
Often, when children come in for therapy they tell their therapist, ”I feel icky all the time.” Therapists connect with preschoolers and toddlers and are “feelings doctors” for children. We would gladly help your child build self-esteem and emotional coping tools. Play therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut helps children tell their story in an age appropriate way.
Perhaps, your child or adolescent wants to paint, use clay, tie dye, learn a mindfulness meditation, or play an instrument to release and relax. With the use of mind-body therapies, children and young adults can feel at home in their body.
We find that anxious children benefit from creative, holistic play therapies for emotional expression and confidence.
In time, creative play therapies help your child identify emotions and learn positive coping tools.
Children and adolescents can gain positive outlets for anxiety through painting, art, mindfulness yoga, musical instruments, and nature therapies.
Feeling stuck with your child or teen in parenting battles? At Wisdom Within Counseling, we love helping anxious, frustrated children and parents find creative, artistic, and positive ways to release angry feelings and bond.
Play Therapy For Children
At Wisdom Within Counseling in East Lyme, Connecticut, our team knows how to step into a frustrated child’s world. Whether your child is having disruptive behaviors at school, or they are getting into fights with their siblings, or just have been saying things that concern you, we can help. Also, children may have social anxiety and need help with bullying and developing social confidence.
Just like your child goes to math class in school, attending to play therapy sessions in East Lyme, Connecticut help your child build emotional skills.
Each child has different triggers for impulsive behavior, anger, or panic. Counseling helps children understand their triggers and how to cope. In counseling, your child can feel safe processing jealousy about a peer or sibling relationship. In addition, your teenager may feel sad about the loss of someone important in their life or a break up. Your child may have anxiety and fear about moving to a new home. In divorce, separation, and blending families, children may also fear rejection and have anxiety and uncertainty that gets in the way of enjoying life.
Teen and Young Adult Therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut
Teenagers with depression can learn mindfulness tools to confidently handle stress with peer pressure at school and family
We help depressed teenagers stop self-harming, cutting, and find alternatives to impulsive behaviors. Art, yoga, and also walking by the beach in therapy can help make chaotic life transitions simpler and calmer. We offer nurturing support. When teenagers are feeling overwhelmed, anxious, or sad, it can feel overwhelming.
A teen who doesn’t have positive coping strategies may hang with the bad crowd, cut themselves, or get into trouble.
In counseling in East Lyme, Connecticut, your teenager can learn holistic ways to release anger, anxiety, and loss. In a breakup, your teenager might feel sad, jealous, hurt, or betrayed. These are all big feelings that can be processed in counseling in a healthy and therapeutic way.
Does your teenager or young adult need help slowing down the emotional rollercoaster?
Is your teenager hiding alcohol and drug use or developed an eating disorders, self-harm, or other impulsive behaviors?
For teenagers, stress, peer pressure, and dating is hard to balance. Additionally, teens often experience perfectionism without healthy coping skills. Essentially, adolescents and teens show they are hurting with negative behaviors. One of our specialities is working with adolescents and teenagers. We help them become emotionally prepared for the world, college life, and independent living. Also, creative therapy can help depressed teenagers reduce suicidal thinking.
We offer teenagers in therapy a safe place to gain self-esteem tools and feel a sense of belonging.
In therapy, we help teenagers reduce and stop self-harm and calmly sort through these big, intense emotions. Also, your teenager can learn DBT skills to sort through their emotions and what they can control, vs. feeling guilty and obligated to take care of the negative emotions of friends.
To begin, click the button below to schedule your phone consult for confidence and clarity.
Creative Art and Painting in Therapy
Painting and art in therapy can provide a sense of inner peace when you are struggling with intense inner emotions. Glitter gel pens, water color, clay, and art can promote creativity, inner balance, and healing. Art can improve communication and concentration, and even help reduce feelings of isolation. Having the option of talking alongside painting can help your child or young adult cope with strong emotions while building self-esteem and confidence.
We love to offer a variety of art options including painting, tie-dye, beads, vision boards, clay, drawing, and more!
Are you looking for a therapist to help your anxious child struggling with concerning emotions or behaviors in confident, calm, creative ways?
We teach children and young adults skills for emotional release and how to find joy in life again.
Our creative therapies offer a language beyond words for emotional expression. Play therapy is the language children use to communicate. When it comes to releasing anger, anxiety, and sadness, creative therapies offer positive outlets beyond words. Your child can also sort through overwhelming, difficult emotions, such as feeling stuck and anxious. As well, we help exhausted parents develop family structure while helping their children feel loved.
More Wisdom Within Counseling Specialities
LGBTQIA+ Counseling for Children, Teens, and Couples
Our marriage and family therapist team also specializes with LGBTQIA+ expressive children, queer and non-binary teenagers, transgender young adults, and lesbian and gay couples.
As holistic counselors, we also empower you to grow out of old, negative patterns and attract positive, nurturing connections.
The Wisdom Within marriage and family therapists can help you create a life you love and attract healthy relationships from confidence. If you or a loved one identifies in the LGBTQIA+ community and is looking for support, Wisdom Within would love to support you. Our therapists can help you navigate life’s unique challenges, process intense feelings, and develop meaningful connections with others. Additionally, we provide a safe space for you to express yourself and who you want to be.
We help families through chaotic life transitions and loss to feel grounded and close.
Families often go through difficult life transitions including loss of a loved one. Oftentimes, losing someone within the family can generate feelings of despair, hopelessness, loneliness, and grief. Have you felt upset about estranged family relationships since a grandparent has passed away? Do you fear losing another person in your family? It might feel like you are sad all the time and constantly down. You may find that you are constantly looking for a safe space to grieve, including at work.
Does it feel like your family dynamics and relationships are so different since the loss of your loved one?
Losing a significant other or a child may also completely alter your relationships and sense of self in your family.
Whether your child needs play therapy to process loss of a parent, we can help. As well, loss and death of a parent is very impactful for couples. Grief can lead to depression and disconnection. Our therapists can help you process grief in a healthy and safe way. We also help families through divorce, affairs, conflict, chronic disease or illness, and more. At Wisdom Within Counseling, we can help restore faith and hope in your family by bringing you close together again.
Start today, click the pink button below to book a phone consult to build self-confidence, a healthy body image, and meaningful relationships.
We help anxious children, self-harming teenagers, and distant couples develop meaningful connections with themselves and their mind, body, and spirit.
Online and in person, our therapists work with rambunctious children, depressed young adults, and distant couples.
Plus, in addition to traditional talk therapies, your child can choose from creative art, yoga, mindfulness, music, and outdoor nature therapies. Breathing, yoga poses, and meditation support self-regulation. Your teenager can learn to center and calm themselves from the inside out. Creative therapies foster self-acceptance, holistic stress outlets, and inner peace.
To begin, book a free phone consult using the pink button below for child, marriage, and family therapy in East Lyme.
Creative arts in counseling supports PTSD and trauma recovery through self-acceptance and self-compassion
Trauma and PTSD symptoms include
Children, teens, and couples who experience trauma show the following symptoms. You or your child may feel shock, denial, or disbelief. Also, feeling sad or hopeless is very common. At times, you experience confusion, difficulty concentrating, and question everything. Anger, irritability, mood swings are normal trauma symptoms. These symptoms can make it difficult to relate to a family member with PTSD.
High levels of anxiety and fear can make a person with PTSD unpleasant to be around at times.
If your child has PTSD symptoms, they may be fearful of trying new things, afraid to laugh, or afraid bad things will happen all over again. PTSD therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling in East Lyme, Connecticut can help you and your family overcome and talk about guilt, shame, and self-blame. We can help you if you have negative fears from living through a scary, life threatening, or emotional event. Family therapy can help family members know how to support a loved one with PTSD. Children and adults with PTSD may socially withdraw, become depressed, or have a change in eating habits.
Examples of trauma events in families that create PTSD symptoms
Experiencing COVID-19 and the pandemic was a trauma to many families, children, teenagers, and couples. Also, experiencing sexual abuse, physical abuse, verbal or emotional abuse is trauma. You could have trauma from a medical experience that went wrong. Many women have traumatic births. Having a loved one die suddenly or unexpectedly is a traumatic event and loss. Infertility and miscarriages are traumatic events. Watching violence at school, intimate partner violence, or domestic violence is traumatic. As well, experiencing bullying is a trauma. Getting in a major car accident is traumatic physically and emotionally. A sports injury is traumatic. Having a parent who was an alcoholic or who kept secrets and lied to you is traumatic. At Wisdom Within Counseling, therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut helps give you positive coping tools for PTSD.
Therapy is a way to build lifelong coping tools for past painful emotional experiences and heal from PTSD
No matter what life experiences have been painful for you, our team of marriage and family therapists can help you. PTSD can look different in parents and children. For instance, a parent may get quiet when in trauma mode. A child may get loud, yell or angry when in trauma mode. Your therapist can help you find ways to cope with PTSD. In counseling, your child gets to take back their power over the traumatizing, painful memories of the past. From holistic counseling, your child can learn to cultivate courage and believe in themselves.
Wisdom Within Counseling offers you a safe place to unload, relax, and heal from trauma.
Just like math takes time to learn, recovering from loss, anger, and trauma takes time. Often, victims and survivors of trauma are critical of themselves and blame themselves. We teach you how to stop those self-critical thoughts and learn to nurture yourself in mind, body, and spirit. You can learn to be gentle with yourself in holistic counseling.
Holistic therapies for PTSD recovery
From therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut, you have choices of mind-body therapies and relaxation skills. Yoga therapy for trauma is a specialty here. For PTSD healing, you have holistic choices of talking, walking by the beach, trauma sensitive yoga therapy or creatively painting with your therapist.
In therapy in East Lyme, CT, we help anxious children, depressed teenagers, and distant couples connect holistically through art, yoga, music, and nature therapies.
The team of marital and family therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling help anxious children, depressed teenagers, and distant couples thrive. Through talking, play, art, yoga, mindfulness, and nature therapies, you can attract healthy relationships, build coping skills, and trust intuition.
Why start at Wisdom Within Counseling in East Lyme, Connecticut sooner than later?
The team at Wisdom Within Counseling use creative art, yoga, music, and walk and talk therapies to offer lifelong coping skills. Holistic counseling helps people of all ages navigate difficult life situations with friends, peers, a boss, teacher, siblings, or in-law’s. As well, you can use expressive arts to learn to cope with family related traumas.
For instance, counseling can help support you through divorce, moving, death of a loved one, self-harm, anxiety, school stress, and the loss of a job. Building lifelong coping strategies helps you and your child have a positive approach towards life and relationships.
To begin, click the button below for your free phone consult for child, teen, and marriage counseling for confidence and clarity.
Each holistic therapy session is a creative, positive experience that fosters self-love, leadership, and acceptance.
We help you and your family through let go of anger, improve self-care, attract healthy relationships, and communicate frustrated emotions calmly and effectively. We help families in chaos thrive holistically.
Who makes up the team of creative marriage and family therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling in Southeastern Connecticut?
To begin, click the button below to schedule phone phone consult for meaningful relationships and positive coping tools.
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We help children, teens, couples, and families in Connecticut, Florida, and Massachusetts.
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Children and adolescents who need counseling may struggle with shame and guilt
It is common for children and teenagers with anxiety to struggle with feelings of shame and guilt. A young adult may make poor choices due to sham and guilt Low self-esteem may cause a teenager to be swayed by peer pressure. Teens may us drugs or drink alcohol when struggling with shame and guilt. You may notice your child struggling with conflicts, anger, tantrums, and irritability when they need to talk about shame and guilt. Being bullied by peers can lead to insecurities and self-doubt. Creative, holistic child and teen therapy in Niantic, Connecticut can start to rebuild self-esteem, believe in themselves, and gain independence.
Is your middle school pre-teen regressing? Is she simply not the same bubbly, outgoing teen girl she once was?
Well, these creative therapies in Niantic, Connecticut brings in art, crafts, painting, clay, and glitter. Rather than focusing on talking, Wisdom Within Counseling focuses on creative expression beyond words for stress relief. These are especially helpful for children with selective mutism. Our team of creative therapists in Niantic often work with middle school adolescent girls and teenagers in holistic counseling. Painting, crafting, and talking promote a sense of community and connection among adolescents. We would love to have your emerging adolescent join for a playful, painting, creative adolescent counseling in Niantic, Connecticut!
Looking for an out-of-the-box, creative adolescent art therapist in Niantic, Connecticut?
Likewise, child and teen therapy in Niantic, Connecticut boosts confidence to let go of emotions in positive ways. For some middle schoolers, peer pressure, friends who are dating, bullying, and family divorce are stressors. So, child and teen therapy in Niantic, Connecticut teach creative ways to feeling positive. Adolescents can begin creating healthy self-care goals.
The team at Wisdom Within Counseling offers creative alternatives to traditional psychiatric medication. For instance, we offer self confidence skills for high school and better family relationships.
Why start in creative, holistic child and teen therapy in Niantic, Connecticut?
Children and teens will learn creative ways to express emotions and positive ways for staying calm when frustrated. Wisdom Within Counseling offers depressed teenagers clay, art, painting, glitter, acrylics, and essential oil‘s. Artsy, holistic therapies help emerging youth develop confidence, positive self-care, and healthy coping outlets for all emotions. Wisdom Within Counseling is a holistic marriage and family therapy group. Your teenager can learn to reduce their panic and anxiety from meditation skills. We would love to have your teenager gain relaxation skills and positive coping skills.
Confidence, Communication, and Connection
Weekly counseling provides young adults with a safe, supportive environment. And, with a safe place to let out their stresses, your middle school girl can feel accepted and belong in the world. Further, child and teen therapy in Niantic, Connecticut provides positive coping skills to handle difficult feelings in healthy ways.
So, if you daughter or son is struggling with making friends, other friends are dating, child and teen therapy in Niantic, Connecticut can help. Maybe, you’re getting divorced, and counseling can help with expressing emotions through those family changes. Also, pre-teens can have an opportunity to explore their hopes, doubts, dreams, and fears. Talking with a therapist outside of school and home is essential for healthy stress outlets.
To begin, click the button below for a phone consult for child and teen therapy in Niantic, Connecticut.
Holistic Child, Teen, Family, and Marriage Counseling For The Whole Family
Need help making yourself a priority again after being drained from caring too much for others who don’t give back?
Wanting an LGBTQIA+ affirming and transgender educated counselor to understand your non-binary teen?
Want your frustrated, anxious child to feel nurtured and calmly express their needs?
Does your anxious child or adolescent need healthy, emotional coping skills and confidence?
Need help gaining a healthy body image and positive relationship with food?
After betrayal and loss, do you need help creating a passionate, honest, long-lasting, and playful romantic relationship?
Does your depressed teen need help stopping self-harm and cutting?
Needing help overcoming roommate syndrome and gaining communication, joy, laughter, intimacy, and connection again?
Would you like to paint, do art, yoga, or walk and talk by the beach as a lifelong coping tool?
Needing help overcoming negative past memories and trauma and releasing intense feelings like hurt, sadness, and anger?
Do you want your insecure adolescent to set boundaries with peers, feel a sense of belonging, and believe in themselves again?
Is your relationship and family going through a major transition and needing clarity, hope, and togetherness?
We Specialize In Helping Anxious Kids, Depressed Teens, and Distant Couples Build Positive, Meaningful Relationships
To start, click below to book your free phone consult to gain confidence and clarity through therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut!
If your relationship is conflictual, you’re in the right place for emotional connection and couples therapy.
Couples Therapy in Southeastern Connecticut
Finding your partner keeping secrets, lying, or cheating can lead to intense feelings of betrayal and anger too. Additionally, you may feel there are sexual difficulties. However, you and your partner have a strong desire to get the passion and spark back in your romance. The team at Wisdom Within Counseling are a group of East Lyme therapists who love helping couples.
Right now, you may feel exhausted, down, and anxious about the state pf your romantic relationship.
Do you feel angry, hurt, and confused and want better communication?
Is your spouse coming out or is their gender identity changing?
Do you get into arguments with yelling, name calling, or door slamming?
Signs to get started in couples therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut
You may feel that your marriage is lonely and distant at times. Additionally, you might be having the same frustrating fight over and over, and it never gets resolved. Maybe you feel hopeless after an argument and you sleep separately. There may be a deep hurt and betrayal behind your anger. Therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut at Wisdom Within Counseling supports calm communication and emotional connection.
Unresolved conflict can lead to trouble sleeping, low motivation, physical stomach and head aches.
Your holistic, creative couples therapist can help you create healthy and positive relationships in your life. With marriage and family therapy, you and your partner can also learn effective communication skills to tackle past trauma together in a supportive way. Your therapist can also help you heal from emotional pain, hurt, and betrayal, and rebuild trust and meaningful connection with your partner.
Why Start Marriage and Relationship Therapy in Southeastern Connecticut?
Couples may feel distant, stop talking to one another in a fight, or have concerns about sex drive. In arguments, maybe you don’t feel heard. Couples therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut at Wisdom Within Counseling helps if when you deeply want to feel supported, recreate trust, and improve communication.
If your romantic relationship is not where you want it to be, couples therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut can help.
In your childhood, did you feel torn between your parents who got into intense conflicts? We often don’t learn how to build the best partnerships in childhood from our parents.
You and your partner may also benefit from counseling if you have experiences of trauma like having an alcoholic parent.
You may have experiences of loss of loved ones or loss of a parent. Receiving life altering, devastating news is another reason couples benefit from having a safe place in therapy.
Yelling and door slamming seems to be a negative part of all fights that are happening right now.
Working with a holistic marriage counselor when dealing with loss, loneliness, betrayal and distance can help you have a safe place to slow down. You can talk about what you need when you are upset, rebuild trust, and create playfulness. Also, you can talk about your experience of your parents in your childhood, whether positive or negative, and create reach a new level of loving each other.
Marriage counseling supports high conflict, fighting couples, and couples who have lost touch like two ships passing in the night.
As a team of marriage and family therapists, we would love to help you connect within, create life balance, and care for yourself. We offer creative, holistic coping tools to building the long-lasting marriage you desire. Distant couples in distress have a safe place to unload it all.
Let the Wisdom Within Counseling team of therapist in East Lyme, Connecticut help you remember your marriage values. From better communication, to emotional intimacy, our marriage therapists can help.
We help your overcome intense, painful, negative communication tactics in your marriage and instead teach you how to build a healthy, meaningful communication skills.
Would you like help to express anger, jealousy, frustration, loss, and betrayal in a calm way? Do you want your partner to listen and hear you? Working with a couples therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling helps you create a more loving, purposeful relationship. As holistic counselors, we empower couples how to grow out of old, negative communication patterns and create a calm, positive, and nurturing connection.
Couples may begin fighting because they have a history of trauma and need help building intimate, emotional connection.
Do you feel stuck in a conflict cycle with your spouse, feel like bored roommates, or needing help feeling emotionally close?
Our team of couples therapists help you build healthy communication skills and also help you talk calmly to each other.
To begin, click below for your phone consult for confidence and clarity thorough therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut.
Couples therapy can be a safe place to heal after an affair, infidelity, lying, dishonesty, or secret keeping.
Our team can help you slow down, discuss topics that seem conflictual, and also set positive goals for your future together. Additionally, marriage counseling can help you gain clarity on what you both what for the future of your relationship.
Child and Teen Therapy in Southeastern Connecticut
Your child can learn tools to handle anxiety, fear, anticipation, anger and frustration in holistic, healthy ways.
If your child or young adult feels pressure to be perfect, counseling can help. Wisdom Within Counseling supports adolescents and young adults with anxiety, fear, worries, depression, and also frustration. Perhaps, your adolescent or teenager feels overwhelmed with peer stress, school drama, getting good grades, and needs emotional confidence. Holistic therapy supports self-empowerment and can also help your young adult develop autonomy.
At Wisdom Within Counseling, children, adolescents and young adults can gain self-worth skills, learn to believe in themselves again, and also create more positive friendships.
Our holistic marriage and family therapists in East Lyme, Connecticut can also help your child or teenager learn ways to cope with anger, anxiety, and loss through self-acceptance tools.
Signs Your Child or Young Adult Will Benefit From Therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut
After your child or family has been through challenging, big life events, our team of holistic marriage and family therapists can help you and your child build a toolbox for creating inner peace and confidence. When families are in conflict or parents are divorcing, children may become frustrated easily.
Additionally, self-harm, mood swings, anxiety, lack of friends, anger, or the silent treatment are signs your child or teenager needs support.
Adolescents and siblings may be fighting, hitting, yelling, or in competition. Also, loss of a grandparent or having a parent with mental health issues can be stressful for children.
You might notice emotional meltdowns, disruptive behaviors, or anxious behaviors develop.
Children and adolescents needing therapy may also be socially withdrawn, struggle to make and keep friends, feel depressed, or get into trouble.
Your adolescent may be using they/them pronouns, wanting a name change, or is coming out as bisexual or non-binary.
Maybe, your child stopped speaking, is very sensitive, and has selective mutism.
A lot of times, children just get frustrated and angry when they don’t know how to release emotions and let go.
How do creative arts help support children and teens?
Holistic walking and talking therapies support depressed teenagers in joyful movement. Being outside in nature calms the nervous system and allows one to feel a sense of inner peace.
Often, when children come in for therapy they tell their therapist, ”I feel icky all the time.” Therapists connect with preschoolers and toddlers and are “feelings doctors” for children. We would gladly help your child build self-esteem and emotional coping tools. Play therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut helps children tell their story in an age appropriate way.
Perhaps, your child or adolescent wants to paint, use clay, tie dye, learn a mindfulness meditation, or play an instrument to release and relax. With the use of mind-body therapies, children and young adults can feel at home in their body.
We find that anxious children benefit from creative, holistic play therapies for emotional expression and confidence.
In time, creative play therapies help your child identify emotions and learn positive coping tools.
Children and adolescents can gain positive outlets for anxiety through painting, art, mindfulness yoga, musical instruments, and nature therapies.
Feeling stuck with your child or teen in parenting battles? At Wisdom Within Counseling, we love helping anxious, frustrated children and parents find creative, artistic, and positive ways to release angry feelings and bond.
Play Therapy For Children
At Wisdom Within Counseling in East Lyme, Connecticut, our team knows how to step into a frustrated child’s world. Whether your child is having disruptive behaviors at school, or they are getting into fights with their siblings, or just have been saying things that concern you, we can help. Also, children may have social anxiety and need help with bullying and developing social confidence.
Just like your child goes to math class in school, attending to play therapy sessions in East Lyme, Connecticut help your child build emotional skills.
Each child has different triggers for impulsive behavior, anger, or panic. Counseling helps children understand their triggers and how to cope. In counseling, your child can feel safe processing jealousy about a peer or sibling relationship. In addition, your teenager may feel sad about the loss of someone important in their life or a break up. Your child may have anxiety and fear about moving to a new home. In divorce, separation, and blending families, children may also fear rejection and have anxiety and uncertainty that gets in the way of enjoying life.
Teen and Young Adult Therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut
Teenagers with depression can learn mindfulness tools to confidently handle stress with peer pressure at school and family
We help depressed teenagers stop self-harming, cutting, and find alternatives to impulsive behaviors. Art, yoga, and also walking by the beach in therapy can help make chaotic life transitions simpler and calmer. We offer nurturing support. When teenagers are feeling overwhelmed, anxious, or sad, it can feel overwhelming.
A teen who doesn’t have positive coping strategies may hang with the bad crowd, cut themselves, or get into trouble.
In counseling in East Lyme, Connecticut, your teenager can learn holistic ways to release anger, anxiety, and loss. In a breakup, your teenager might feel sad, jealous, hurt, or betrayed. These are all big feelings that can be processed in counseling in a healthy and therapeutic way.
Does your teenager or young adult need help slowing down the emotional rollercoaster?
Is your teenager hiding alcohol and drug use or developed an eating disorders, self-harm, or other impulsive behaviors?
For teenagers, stress, peer pressure, and dating is hard to balance. Additionally, teens often experience perfectionism without healthy coping skills. Essentially, adolescents and teens show they are hurting with negative behaviors. One of our specialities is working with adolescents and teenagers. We help them become emotionally prepared for the world, college life, and independent living. Also, creative therapy can help depressed teenagers reduce suicidal thinking.
We offer teenagers in therapy a safe place to gain self-esteem tools and feel a sense of belonging.
In therapy, we help teenagers reduce and stop self-harm and calmly sort through these big, intense emotions. Also, your teenager can learn DBT skills to sort through their emotions and what they can control, vs. feeling guilty and obligated to take care of the negative emotions of friends.
To begin, click the button below to schedule your phone consult for confidence and clarity.
Creative Art and Painting in Therapy
Painting and art in therapy can provide a sense of inner peace when you are struggling with intense inner emotions. Glitter gel pens, water color, clay, and art can promote creativity, inner balance, and healing. Art can improve communication and concentration, and even help reduce feelings of isolation. Having the option of talking alongside painting can help your child or young adult cope with strong emotions while building self-esteem and confidence.
We love to offer a variety of art options including painting, tie-dye, beads, vision boards, clay, drawing, and more!
Are you looking for a therapist to help your anxious child struggling with concerning emotions or behaviors in confident, calm, creative ways?
We teach children and young adults skills for emotional release and how to find joy in life again.
Our creative therapies offer a language beyond words for emotional expression. Play therapy is the language children use to communicate. When it comes to releasing anger, anxiety, and sadness, creative therapies offer positive outlets beyond words. Your child can also sort through overwhelming, difficult emotions, such as feeling stuck and anxious. As well, we help exhausted parents develop family structure while helping their children feel loved.
More Wisdom Within Counseling Specialities
LGBTQIA+ Counseling for Children, Teens, and Couples
Our marriage and family therapist team also specializes with LGBTQIA+ expressive children, queer and non-binary teenagers, transgender young adults, and lesbian and gay couples.
As holistic counselors, we also empower you to grow out of old, negative patterns and attract positive, nurturing connections.
The Wisdom Within marriage and family therapists can help you create a life you love and attract healthy relationships from confidence. If you or a loved one identifies in the LGBTQIA+ community and is looking for support, Wisdom Within would love to support you. Our therapists can help you navigate life’s unique challenges, process intense feelings, and develop meaningful connections with others. Additionally, we provide a safe space for you to express yourself and who you want to be.
We help families through chaotic life transitions and loss to feel grounded and close.
Families often go through difficult life transitions including loss of a loved one. Oftentimes, losing someone within the family can generate feelings of despair, hopelessness, loneliness, and grief. Have you felt upset about estranged family relationships since a grandparent has passed away? Do you fear losing another person in your family? It might feel like you are sad all the time and constantly down. You may find that you are constantly looking for a safe space to grieve, including at work.
Does it feel like your family dynamics and relationships are so different since the loss of your loved one?
Losing a significant other or a child may also completely alter your relationships and sense of self in your family.
Whether your child needs play therapy to process loss of a parent, we can help. As well, loss and death of a parent is very impactful for couples. Grief can lead to depression and disconnection. Our therapists can help you process grief in a healthy and safe way. We also help families through divorce, affairs, conflict, chronic disease or illness, and more. At Wisdom Within Counseling, we can help restore faith and hope in your family by bringing you close together again.
Start today, click the pink button below to book a phone consult to build self-confidence, a healthy body image, and meaningful relationships.
We help anxious children, self-harming teenagers, and distant couples develop meaningful connections with themselves and their mind, body, and spirit.
Online and in person, our therapists work with rambunctious children, depressed young adults, and distant couples.
Plus, in addition to traditional talk therapies, your child can choose from creative art, yoga, mindfulness, music, and outdoor nature therapies. Breathing, yoga poses, and meditation support self-regulation. Your teenager can learn to center and calm themselves from the inside out. Creative therapies foster self-acceptance, holistic stress outlets, and inner peace.
To begin, book a free phone consult using the pink button below for child, marriage, and family therapy in East Lyme.
Creative arts in counseling supports PTSD and trauma recovery through self-acceptance and self-compassion
Trauma and PTSD symptoms include
Children, teens, and couples who experience trauma show the following symptoms. You or your child may feel shock, denial, or disbelief. Also, feeling sad or hopeless is very common. At times, you experience confusion, difficulty concentrating, and question everything. Anger, irritability, mood swings are normal trauma symptoms. These symptoms can make it difficult to relate to a family member with PTSD.
High levels of anxiety and fear can make a person with PTSD unpleasant to be around at times.
If your child has PTSD symptoms, they may be fearful of trying new things, afraid to laugh, or afraid bad things will happen all over again. PTSD therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling in East Lyme, Connecticut can help you and your family overcome and talk about guilt, shame, and self-blame. We can help you if you have negative fears from living through a scary, life threatening, or emotional event. Family therapy can help family members know how to support a loved one with PTSD. Children and adults with PTSD may socially withdraw, become depressed, or have a change in eating habits.
Examples of trauma events in families that create PTSD symptoms
Experiencing COVID-19 and the pandemic was a trauma to many families, children, teenagers, and couples. Also, experiencing sexual abuse, physical abuse, verbal or emotional abuse is trauma. You could have trauma from a medical experience that went wrong. Many women have traumatic births. Having a loved one die suddenly or unexpectedly is a traumatic event and loss. Infertility and miscarriages are traumatic events. Watching violence at school, intimate partner violence, or domestic violence is traumatic. As well, experiencing bullying is a trauma. Getting in a major car accident is traumatic physically and emotionally. A sports injury is traumatic. Having a parent who was an alcoholic or who kept secrets and lied to you is traumatic. At Wisdom Within Counseling, therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut helps give you positive coping tools for PTSD.
Therapy is a way to build lifelong coping tools for past painful emotional experiences and heal from PTSD
No matter what life experiences have been painful for you, our team of marriage and family therapists can help you. PTSD can look different in parents and children. For instance, a parent may get quiet when in trauma mode. A child may get loud, yell or angry when in trauma mode. Your therapist can help you find ways to cope with PTSD. In counseling, your child gets to take back their power over the traumatizing, painful memories of the past. From holistic counseling, your child can learn to cultivate courage and believe in themselves.
Wisdom Within Counseling offers you a safe place to unload, relax, and heal from trauma.
Just like math takes time to learn, recovering from loss, anger, and trauma takes time. Often, victims and survivors of trauma are critical of themselves and blame themselves. We teach you how to stop those self-critical thoughts and learn to nurture yourself in mind, body, and spirit. You can learn to be gentle with yourself in holistic counseling.
Holistic therapies for PTSD recovery
From therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut, you have choices of mind-body therapies and relaxation skills. Yoga therapy for trauma is a specialty here. For PTSD healing, you have holistic choices of talking, walking by the beach, trauma sensitive yoga therapy or creatively painting with your therapist.
In therapy in East Lyme, CT, we help anxious children, depressed teenagers, and distant couples connect holistically through art, yoga, music, and nature therapies.
The team of marital and family therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling help anxious children, depressed teenagers, and distant couples thrive. Through talking, play, art, yoga, mindfulness, and nature therapies, you can attract healthy relationships, build coping skills, and trust intuition.
Why start at Wisdom Within Counseling in East Lyme, Connecticut sooner than later?
The team at Wisdom Within Counseling use creative art, yoga, music, and walk and talk therapies to offer lifelong coping skills. Holistic counseling helps people of all ages navigate difficult life situations with friends, peers, a boss, teacher, siblings, or in-law’s. As well, you can use expressive arts to learn to cope with family related traumas.
For instance, counseling can help support you through divorce, moving, death of a loved one, self-harm, anxiety, school stress, and the loss of a job. Building lifelong coping strategies helps you and your child have a positive approach towards life and relationships.
To begin, click the button below for your free phone consult for child, teen, and marriage counseling for confidence and clarity.
Each holistic therapy session is a creative, positive experience that fosters self-love, leadership, and acceptance.
We help you and your family through let go of anger, improve self-care, attract healthy relationships, and communicate frustrated emotions calmly and effectively. We help families in chaos thrive holistically.
Who makes up the team of creative marriage and family therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling in Southeastern Connecticut?
To begin, click the button below to schedule phone phone consult for meaningful relationships and positive coping tools.
Our Locations
We help children, teens, couples, and families in Connecticut, Florida, and Massachusetts.
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Reasons to start in child and teen therapy in Niantic, Connecticut
Children and teenagers get a place to feel a sense of community. Many times, pre-teen need professional therapeutic guidance of an adult who they can trust that is outside of their family. And, working with a counselor in Niantic allows teens an opportunity to share their life experiences. Walking, art, yoga, and music therapies provide emotional release. Teenagers can receive support and most importantly feel a sense of belonging.
Creative Help For Easting Disorders and Non-Binary, or Transgender Adolescents
First, one great benefit of child and adolescent counseling in Niantic is improved body image. For some adolescents, it is hard to eat breakfast. Or, with family divorce, your adolescent may eat too much or too little. Your teenager may feel they need to change their body shape to fit in. Perhaps, other high school friends are dieting to be skinny. Wisdom Within Counseling supports intuitive eating and a healthy body image. Creative adolescent counseling in Niantic, Connecticut teaches self-esteem and positive thinking.
Eating disorders in child and teen therapy in Niantic, Connecticut
Often, middle schoolers develop body image issues from the media and cultural influences. And, if these body image concerns go unaddressed, they can unfortunately develop into an eating disorder such as anorexia or bulimia. Likewise, LGBTQ youth are more at risk for eating disorders and anorexia.
Creative, holistic child and teen therapy in Niantic, Connecticut supports a healthy body image and positive self-esteem skills
Further, your pre-teen or teenager can learn to understand the influences that affect their body. And, teenagers can then learn how to give and accept compliments and focus on loving themselves.
Lastly, your teenager can learn positive self-talk skills in order to let go of unrealistic cultural expectations and overcome the inner critic.
Learn Effective Communication Skills
Secondly, attending holistic child and teen therapy in Niantic, Connecticut at Wisdom Within Counseling teaches positive coping skills. These positive coping skills include identifying emotions. From there, teens can communicate with others how they feel. Learning how to verbally express feelings to convey inner feelings to others is a lifelong skill from counseling. Also, middle school girls will have a chance to identify communication styles and express emotions through creative art therapies.
Art, creativity, and painting are offered in counseling in Niantic, Connecticut
Likewise, pre-teen girls learn different skills weekly to handle conflict with peers and teachers in healthy ways. Additionally, pre-teen and adolescent girls learn to be assertive and ask for what they need without being aggressive or passive. Counseling can promote social confidence too. Overall, artsy, creative therapies support social connections outside of therapy. In conclusion, counseling includes fun activities like role playing to practice fair-fighting. After a parent’s divorce, therapy in Southeastern Connecticut helps teach conflict resolution skills too.
There are many Social-Emotional Benefits for Adolescent Girls
To begin, click the button below for a phone consult for child and teen therapy in Niantic, Connecticut.
Holistic Child, Teen, Family, and Marriage Counseling For The Whole Family
Need help making yourself a priority again after being drained from caring too much for others who don’t give back?
Wanting an LGBTQIA+ affirming and transgender educated counselor to understand your non-binary teen?
Want your frustrated, anxious child to feel nurtured and calmly express their needs?
Does your anxious child or adolescent need healthy, emotional coping skills and confidence?
Need help gaining a healthy body image and positive relationship with food?
After betrayal and loss, do you need help creating a passionate, honest, long-lasting, and playful romantic relationship?
Does your depressed teen need help stopping self-harm and cutting?
Needing help overcoming roommate syndrome and gaining communication, joy, laughter, intimacy, and connection again?
Would you like to paint, do art, yoga, or walk and talk by the beach as a lifelong coping tool?
Needing help overcoming negative past memories and trauma and releasing intense feelings like hurt, sadness, and anger?
Do you want your insecure adolescent to set boundaries with peers, feel a sense of belonging, and believe in themselves again?
Is your relationship and family going through a major transition and needing clarity, hope, and togetherness?
We Specialize In Helping Anxious Kids, Depressed Teens, and Distant Couples Build Positive, Meaningful Relationships
To start, click below to book your free phone consult to gain confidence and clarity through therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut!
If your relationship is conflictual, you’re in the right place for emotional connection and couples therapy.
Couples Therapy in Southeastern Connecticut
Finding your partner keeping secrets, lying, or cheating can lead to intense feelings of betrayal and anger too. Additionally, you may feel there are sexual difficulties. However, you and your partner have a strong desire to get the passion and spark back in your romance. The team at Wisdom Within Counseling are a group of East Lyme therapists who love helping couples.
Right now, you may feel exhausted, down, and anxious about the state pf your romantic relationship.
Do you feel angry, hurt, and confused and want better communication?
Is your spouse coming out or is their gender identity changing?
Do you get into arguments with yelling, name calling, or door slamming?
Signs to get started in couples therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut
You may feel that your marriage is lonely and distant at times. Additionally, you might be having the same frustrating fight over and over, and it never gets resolved. Maybe you feel hopeless after an argument and you sleep separately. There may be a deep hurt and betrayal behind your anger. Therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut at Wisdom Within Counseling supports calm communication and emotional connection.
Unresolved conflict can lead to trouble sleeping, low motivation, physical stomach and head aches.
Your holistic, creative couples therapist can help you create healthy and positive relationships in your life. With marriage and family therapy, you and your partner can also learn effective communication skills to tackle past trauma together in a supportive way. Your therapist can also help you heal from emotional pain, hurt, and betrayal, and rebuild trust and meaningful connection with your partner.
Why Start Marriage and Relationship Therapy in Southeastern Connecticut?
Couples may feel distant, stop talking to one another in a fight, or have concerns about sex drive. In arguments, maybe you don’t feel heard. Couples therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut at Wisdom Within Counseling helps if when you deeply want to feel supported, recreate trust, and improve communication.
If your romantic relationship is not where you want it to be, couples therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut can help.
In your childhood, did you feel torn between your parents who got into intense conflicts? We often don’t learn how to build the best partnerships in childhood from our parents.
You and your partner may also benefit from counseling if you have experiences of trauma like having an alcoholic parent.
You may have experiences of loss of loved ones or loss of a parent. Receiving life altering, devastating news is another reason couples benefit from having a safe place in therapy.
Yelling and door slamming seems to be a negative part of all fights that are happening right now.
Working with a holistic marriage counselor when dealing with loss, loneliness, betrayal and distance can help you have a safe place to slow down. You can talk about what you need when you are upset, rebuild trust, and create playfulness. Also, you can talk about your experience of your parents in your childhood, whether positive or negative, and create reach a new level of loving each other.
Marriage counseling supports high conflict, fighting couples, and couples who have lost touch like two ships passing in the night.
As a team of marriage and family therapists, we would love to help you connect within, create life balance, and care for yourself. We offer creative, holistic coping tools to building the long-lasting marriage you desire. Distant couples in distress have a safe place to unload it all.
Let the Wisdom Within Counseling team of therapist in East Lyme, Connecticut help you remember your marriage values. From better communication, to emotional intimacy, our marriage therapists can help.
We help your overcome intense, painful, negative communication tactics in your marriage and instead teach you how to build a healthy, meaningful communication skills.
Would you like help to express anger, jealousy, frustration, loss, and betrayal in a calm way? Do you want your partner to listen and hear you? Working with a couples therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling helps you create a more loving, purposeful relationship. As holistic counselors, we empower couples how to grow out of old, negative communication patterns and create a calm, positive, and nurturing connection.
Couples may begin fighting because they have a history of trauma and need help building intimate, emotional connection.
Do you feel stuck in a conflict cycle with your spouse, feel like bored roommates, or needing help feeling emotionally close?
Our team of couples therapists help you build healthy communication skills and also help you talk calmly to each other.
To begin, click below for your phone consult for confidence and clarity thorough therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut.
Couples therapy can be a safe place to heal after an affair, infidelity, lying, dishonesty, or secret keeping.
Our team can help you slow down, discuss topics that seem conflictual, and also set positive goals for your future together. Additionally, marriage counseling can help you gain clarity on what you both what for the future of your relationship.
Child and Teen Therapy in Southeastern Connecticut
Your child can learn tools to handle anxiety, fear, anticipation, anger and frustration in holistic, healthy ways.
If your child or young adult feels pressure to be perfect, counseling can help. Wisdom Within Counseling supports adolescents and young adults with anxiety, fear, worries, depression, and also frustration. Perhaps, your adolescent or teenager feels overwhelmed with peer stress, school drama, getting good grades, and needs emotional confidence. Holistic therapy supports self-empowerment and can also help your young adult develop autonomy.
At Wisdom Within Counseling, children, adolescents and young adults can gain self-worth skills, learn to believe in themselves again, and also create more positive friendships.
Our holistic marriage and family therapists in East Lyme, Connecticut can also help your child or teenager learn ways to cope with anger, anxiety, and loss through self-acceptance tools.
Signs Your Child or Young Adult Will Benefit From Therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut
After your child or family has been through challenging, big life events, our team of holistic marriage and family therapists can help you and your child build a toolbox for creating inner peace and confidence. When families are in conflict or parents are divorcing, children may become frustrated easily.
Additionally, self-harm, mood swings, anxiety, lack of friends, anger, or the silent treatment are signs your child or teenager needs support.
Adolescents and siblings may be fighting, hitting, yelling, or in competition. Also, loss of a grandparent or having a parent with mental health issues can be stressful for children.
You might notice emotional meltdowns, disruptive behaviors, or anxious behaviors develop.
Children and adolescents needing therapy may also be socially withdrawn, struggle to make and keep friends, feel depressed, or get into trouble.
Your adolescent may be using they/them pronouns, wanting a name change, or is coming out as bisexual or non-binary.
Maybe, your child stopped speaking, is very sensitive, and has selective mutism.
A lot of times, children just get frustrated and angry when they don’t know how to release emotions and let go.
How do creative arts help support children and teens?
Holistic walking and talking therapies support depressed teenagers in joyful movement. Being outside in nature calms the nervous system and allows one to feel a sense of inner peace.
Often, when children come in for therapy they tell their therapist, ”I feel icky all the time.” Therapists connect with preschoolers and toddlers and are “feelings doctors” for children. We would gladly help your child build self-esteem and emotional coping tools. Play therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut helps children tell their story in an age appropriate way.
Perhaps, your child or adolescent wants to paint, use clay, tie dye, learn a mindfulness meditation, or play an instrument to release and relax. With the use of mind-body therapies, children and young adults can feel at home in their body.
We find that anxious children benefit from creative, holistic play therapies for emotional expression and confidence.
In time, creative play therapies help your child identify emotions and learn positive coping tools.
Children and adolescents can gain positive outlets for anxiety through painting, art, mindfulness yoga, musical instruments, and nature therapies.
Feeling stuck with your child or teen in parenting battles? At Wisdom Within Counseling, we love helping anxious, frustrated children and parents find creative, artistic, and positive ways to release angry feelings and bond.
Play Therapy For Children
At Wisdom Within Counseling in East Lyme, Connecticut, our team knows how to step into a frustrated child’s world. Whether your child is having disruptive behaviors at school, or they are getting into fights with their siblings, or just have been saying things that concern you, we can help. Also, children may have social anxiety and need help with bullying and developing social confidence.
Just like your child goes to math class in school, attending to play therapy sessions in East Lyme, Connecticut help your child build emotional skills.
Each child has different triggers for impulsive behavior, anger, or panic. Counseling helps children understand their triggers and how to cope. In counseling, your child can feel safe processing jealousy about a peer or sibling relationship. In addition, your teenager may feel sad about the loss of someone important in their life or a break up. Your child may have anxiety and fear about moving to a new home. In divorce, separation, and blending families, children may also fear rejection and have anxiety and uncertainty that gets in the way of enjoying life.
Teen and Young Adult Therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut
Teenagers with depression can learn mindfulness tools to confidently handle stress with peer pressure at school and family
We help depressed teenagers stop self-harming, cutting, and find alternatives to impulsive behaviors. Art, yoga, and also walking by the beach in therapy can help make chaotic life transitions simpler and calmer. We offer nurturing support. When teenagers are feeling overwhelmed, anxious, or sad, it can feel overwhelming.
A teen who doesn’t have positive coping strategies may hang with the bad crowd, cut themselves, or get into trouble.
In counseling in East Lyme, Connecticut, your teenager can learn holistic ways to release anger, anxiety, and loss. In a breakup, your teenager might feel sad, jealous, hurt, or betrayed. These are all big feelings that can be processed in counseling in a healthy and therapeutic way.
Does your teenager or young adult need help slowing down the emotional rollercoaster?
Is your teenager hiding alcohol and drug use or developed an eating disorders, self-harm, or other impulsive behaviors?
For teenagers, stress, peer pressure, and dating is hard to balance. Additionally, teens often experience perfectionism without healthy coping skills. Essentially, adolescents and teens show they are hurting with negative behaviors. One of our specialities is working with adolescents and teenagers. We help them become emotionally prepared for the world, college life, and independent living. Also, creative therapy can help depressed teenagers reduce suicidal thinking.
We offer teenagers in therapy a safe place to gain self-esteem tools and feel a sense of belonging.
In therapy, we help teenagers reduce and stop self-harm and calmly sort through these big, intense emotions. Also, your teenager can learn DBT skills to sort through their emotions and what they can control, vs. feeling guilty and obligated to take care of the negative emotions of friends.
To begin, click the button below to schedule your phone consult for confidence and clarity.
Creative Art and Painting in Therapy
Painting and art in therapy can provide a sense of inner peace when you are struggling with intense inner emotions. Glitter gel pens, water color, clay, and art can promote creativity, inner balance, and healing. Art can improve communication and concentration, and even help reduce feelings of isolation. Having the option of talking alongside painting can help your child or young adult cope with strong emotions while building self-esteem and confidence.
We love to offer a variety of art options including painting, tie-dye, beads, vision boards, clay, drawing, and more!
Are you looking for a therapist to help your anxious child struggling with concerning emotions or behaviors in confident, calm, creative ways?
We teach children and young adults skills for emotional release and how to find joy in life again.
Our creative therapies offer a language beyond words for emotional expression. Play therapy is the language children use to communicate. When it comes to releasing anger, anxiety, and sadness, creative therapies offer positive outlets beyond words. Your child can also sort through overwhelming, difficult emotions, such as feeling stuck and anxious. As well, we help exhausted parents develop family structure while helping their children feel loved.
More Wisdom Within Counseling Specialities
LGBTQIA+ Counseling for Children, Teens, and Couples
Our marriage and family therapist team also specializes with LGBTQIA+ expressive children, queer and non-binary teenagers, transgender young adults, and lesbian and gay couples.
As holistic counselors, we also empower you to grow out of old, negative patterns and attract positive, nurturing connections.
The Wisdom Within marriage and family therapists can help you create a life you love and attract healthy relationships from confidence. If you or a loved one identifies in the LGBTQIA+ community and is looking for support, Wisdom Within would love to support you. Our therapists can help you navigate life’s unique challenges, process intense feelings, and develop meaningful connections with others. Additionally, we provide a safe space for you to express yourself and who you want to be.
We help families through chaotic life transitions and loss to feel grounded and close.
Families often go through difficult life transitions including loss of a loved one. Oftentimes, losing someone within the family can generate feelings of despair, hopelessness, loneliness, and grief. Have you felt upset about estranged family relationships since a grandparent has passed away? Do you fear losing another person in your family? It might feel like you are sad all the time and constantly down. You may find that you are constantly looking for a safe space to grieve, including at work.
Does it feel like your family dynamics and relationships are so different since the loss of your loved one?
Losing a significant other or a child may also completely alter your relationships and sense of self in your family.
Whether your child needs play therapy to process loss of a parent, we can help. As well, loss and death of a parent is very impactful for couples. Grief can lead to depression and disconnection. Our therapists can help you process grief in a healthy and safe way. We also help families through divorce, affairs, conflict, chronic disease or illness, and more. At Wisdom Within Counseling, we can help restore faith and hope in your family by bringing you close together again.
Start today, click the pink button below to book a phone consult to build self-confidence, a healthy body image, and meaningful relationships.
We help anxious children, self-harming teenagers, and distant couples develop meaningful connections with themselves and their mind, body, and spirit.
Online and in person, our therapists work with rambunctious children, depressed young adults, and distant couples.
Plus, in addition to traditional talk therapies, your child can choose from creative art, yoga, mindfulness, music, and outdoor nature therapies. Breathing, yoga poses, and meditation support self-regulation. Your teenager can learn to center and calm themselves from the inside out. Creative therapies foster self-acceptance, holistic stress outlets, and inner peace.
To begin, book a free phone consult using the pink button below for child, marriage, and family therapy in East Lyme.
Creative arts in counseling supports PTSD and trauma recovery through self-acceptance and self-compassion
Trauma and PTSD symptoms include
Children, teens, and couples who experience trauma show the following symptoms. You or your child may feel shock, denial, or disbelief. Also, feeling sad or hopeless is very common. At times, you experience confusion, difficulty concentrating, and question everything. Anger, irritability, mood swings are normal trauma symptoms. These symptoms can make it difficult to relate to a family member with PTSD.
High levels of anxiety and fear can make a person with PTSD unpleasant to be around at times.
If your child has PTSD symptoms, they may be fearful of trying new things, afraid to laugh, or afraid bad things will happen all over again. PTSD therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling in East Lyme, Connecticut can help you and your family overcome and talk about guilt, shame, and self-blame. We can help you if you have negative fears from living through a scary, life threatening, or emotional event. Family therapy can help family members know how to support a loved one with PTSD. Children and adults with PTSD may socially withdraw, become depressed, or have a change in eating habits.
Examples of trauma events in families that create PTSD symptoms
Experiencing COVID-19 and the pandemic was a trauma to many families, children, teenagers, and couples. Also, experiencing sexual abuse, physical abuse, verbal or emotional abuse is trauma. You could have trauma from a medical experience that went wrong. Many women have traumatic births. Having a loved one die suddenly or unexpectedly is a traumatic event and loss. Infertility and miscarriages are traumatic events. Watching violence at school, intimate partner violence, or domestic violence is traumatic. As well, experiencing bullying is a trauma. Getting in a major car accident is traumatic physically and emotionally. A sports injury is traumatic. Having a parent who was an alcoholic or who kept secrets and lied to you is traumatic. At Wisdom Within Counseling, therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut helps give you positive coping tools for PTSD.
Therapy is a way to build lifelong coping tools for past painful emotional experiences and heal from PTSD
No matter what life experiences have been painful for you, our team of marriage and family therapists can help you. PTSD can look different in parents and children. For instance, a parent may get quiet when in trauma mode. A child may get loud, yell or angry when in trauma mode. Your therapist can help you find ways to cope with PTSD. In counseling, your child gets to take back their power over the traumatizing, painful memories of the past. From holistic counseling, your child can learn to cultivate courage and believe in themselves.
Wisdom Within Counseling offers you a safe place to unload, relax, and heal from trauma.
Just like math takes time to learn, recovering from loss, anger, and trauma takes time. Often, victims and survivors of trauma are critical of themselves and blame themselves. We teach you how to stop those self-critical thoughts and learn to nurture yourself in mind, body, and spirit. You can learn to be gentle with yourself in holistic counseling.
Holistic therapies for PTSD recovery
From therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut, you have choices of mind-body therapies and relaxation skills. Yoga therapy for trauma is a specialty here. For PTSD healing, you have holistic choices of talking, walking by the beach, trauma sensitive yoga therapy or creatively painting with your therapist.
In therapy in East Lyme, CT, we help anxious children, depressed teenagers, and distant couples connect holistically through art, yoga, music, and nature therapies.
The team of marital and family therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling help anxious children, depressed teenagers, and distant couples thrive. Through talking, play, art, yoga, mindfulness, and nature therapies, you can attract healthy relationships, build coping skills, and trust intuition.
Why start at Wisdom Within Counseling in East Lyme, Connecticut sooner than later?
The team at Wisdom Within Counseling use creative art, yoga, music, and walk and talk therapies to offer lifelong coping skills. Holistic counseling helps people of all ages navigate difficult life situations with friends, peers, a boss, teacher, siblings, or in-law’s. As well, you can use expressive arts to learn to cope with family related traumas.
For instance, counseling can help support you through divorce, moving, death of a loved one, self-harm, anxiety, school stress, and the loss of a job. Building lifelong coping strategies helps you and your child have a positive approach towards life and relationships.
To begin, click the button below for your free phone consult for child, teen, and marriage counseling for confidence and clarity.
Each holistic therapy session is a creative, positive experience that fosters self-love, leadership, and acceptance.
We help you and your family through let go of anger, improve self-care, attract healthy relationships, and communicate frustrated emotions calmly and effectively. We help families in chaos thrive holistically.
Who makes up the team of creative marriage and family therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling in Southeastern Connecticut?
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We help children, teens, couples, and families in Connecticut, Florida, and Massachusetts.
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How does child and teen therapy in Niantic, Connecticut support self-confidence?
Adolescents and middle schoolers can learn positive coping skills to build healthy friendships. From holistic therapy, adolescents and teens can form healthy boundaries with friends into high school and college years too.
Moreover, pre teens can learn how to stop letting their friends walk all over them. Creative adolescent counseling in Niantic, Connecticut helps adolescents set healthy boundaries.
Likewise, teenagers learn to identify their personal strengths. Teens can focus on academic values and attract high quality friendships.
Creative adolescent art therapies in Niantic, Connecticut helps middle schoolers make friends.
Adolescents with social anxiety can talk about making friends in a safe place. Then, your adolescent can take those friendship skills into life.
Teenagers Release Negative Self-Talk
You teenager can learn how to stop negative belief patterns about their body and self-judgment. Instead, counseling can teach skills for forming positive thoughts. These skills for understanding and overcoming all or nothing thinking can be used in college years and beyond. Child and teen therapy in Niantic, Connecticut supports social-emotional skills for building positive relationships.
Does your adolescent need social skills, but doesn’t like to talk? Creative adolescent art therapy may be perfect.
Sometimes, adolescents are socially rude, awkward, or inappropriate because they don’t know how to be confident. Does your middle schooler say awkward things? From child and teen therapy in Niantic, Connecticut, your middle schooler learn social skills and self-respect.
Why choose a holistic, creative, artsy counseling for your teenager in Niantic, Connecticut?
These emotional, empathy-building skills aren’t taught in school such as math, science, or P.E. Just like academics, social-emotional skills need to be taught over time too. Tween girls can receive professional support for dealing with peer pressure and drama.
Adolescents can build confidence
At Wisdom Within Counseling, your teenager can receive the best elements of art, yoga, and music to build positive coping skills. Further, your middle schooler can feel safe opening up emotionally. In general, middle schoolers and teenagers need help learning how to identify emotions and let them go. Creative adolescent therapy in Niantic, Connecticut supports emotional coping tools. Your teenager can use creative art, role playing, and books to build coping and communication skills. Overall, your adolescent can learn self-acceptance, and reflection leading to improved self-esteem and confidence!
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Holistic Child, Teen, Family, and Marriage Counseling For The Whole Family
Need help making yourself a priority again after being drained from caring too much for others who don’t give back?
Wanting an LGBTQIA+ affirming and transgender educated counselor to understand your non-binary teen?
Want your frustrated, anxious child to feel nurtured and calmly express their needs?
Does your anxious child or adolescent need healthy, emotional coping skills and confidence?
Need help gaining a healthy body image and positive relationship with food?
After betrayal and loss, do you need help creating a passionate, honest, long-lasting, and playful romantic relationship?
Does your depressed teen need help stopping self-harm and cutting?
Needing help overcoming roommate syndrome and gaining communication, joy, laughter, intimacy, and connection again?
Would you like to paint, do art, yoga, or walk and talk by the beach as a lifelong coping tool?
Needing help overcoming negative past memories and trauma and releasing intense feelings like hurt, sadness, and anger?
Do you want your insecure adolescent to set boundaries with peers, feel a sense of belonging, and believe in themselves again?
Is your relationship and family going through a major transition and needing clarity, hope, and togetherness?
We Specialize In Helping Anxious Kids, Depressed Teens, and Distant Couples Build Positive, Meaningful Relationships
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If your relationship is conflictual, you’re in the right place for emotional connection and couples therapy.
Couples Therapy in Southeastern Connecticut
Finding your partner keeping secrets, lying, or cheating can lead to intense feelings of betrayal and anger too. Additionally, you may feel there are sexual difficulties. However, you and your partner have a strong desire to get the passion and spark back in your romance. The team at Wisdom Within Counseling are a group of East Lyme therapists who love helping couples.
Right now, you may feel exhausted, down, and anxious about the state pf your romantic relationship.
Do you feel angry, hurt, and confused and want better communication?
Is your spouse coming out or is their gender identity changing?
Do you get into arguments with yelling, name calling, or door slamming?
Signs to get started in couples therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut
You may feel that your marriage is lonely and distant at times. Additionally, you might be having the same frustrating fight over and over, and it never gets resolved. Maybe you feel hopeless after an argument and you sleep separately. There may be a deep hurt and betrayal behind your anger. Therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut at Wisdom Within Counseling supports calm communication and emotional connection.
Unresolved conflict can lead to trouble sleeping, low motivation, physical stomach and head aches.
Your holistic, creative couples therapist can help you create healthy and positive relationships in your life. With marriage and family therapy, you and your partner can also learn effective communication skills to tackle past trauma together in a supportive way. Your therapist can also help you heal from emotional pain, hurt, and betrayal, and rebuild trust and meaningful connection with your partner.
Why Start Marriage and Relationship Therapy in Southeastern Connecticut?
Couples may feel distant, stop talking to one another in a fight, or have concerns about sex drive. In arguments, maybe you don’t feel heard. Couples therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut at Wisdom Within Counseling helps if when you deeply want to feel supported, recreate trust, and improve communication.
If your romantic relationship is not where you want it to be, couples therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut can help.
In your childhood, did you feel torn between your parents who got into intense conflicts? We often don’t learn how to build the best partnerships in childhood from our parents.
You and your partner may also benefit from counseling if you have experiences of trauma like having an alcoholic parent.
You may have experiences of loss of loved ones or loss of a parent. Receiving life altering, devastating news is another reason couples benefit from having a safe place in therapy.
Yelling and door slamming seems to be a negative part of all fights that are happening right now.
Working with a holistic marriage counselor when dealing with loss, loneliness, betrayal and distance can help you have a safe place to slow down. You can talk about what you need when you are upset, rebuild trust, and create playfulness. Also, you can talk about your experience of your parents in your childhood, whether positive or negative, and create reach a new level of loving each other.
Marriage counseling supports high conflict, fighting couples, and couples who have lost touch like two ships passing in the night.
As a team of marriage and family therapists, we would love to help you connect within, create life balance, and care for yourself. We offer creative, holistic coping tools to building the long-lasting marriage you desire. Distant couples in distress have a safe place to unload it all.
Let the Wisdom Within Counseling team of therapist in East Lyme, Connecticut help you remember your marriage values. From better communication, to emotional intimacy, our marriage therapists can help.
We help your overcome intense, painful, negative communication tactics in your marriage and instead teach you how to build a healthy, meaningful communication skills.
Would you like help to express anger, jealousy, frustration, loss, and betrayal in a calm way? Do you want your partner to listen and hear you? Working with a couples therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling helps you create a more loving, purposeful relationship. As holistic counselors, we empower couples how to grow out of old, negative communication patterns and create a calm, positive, and nurturing connection.
Couples may begin fighting because they have a history of trauma and need help building intimate, emotional connection.
Do you feel stuck in a conflict cycle with your spouse, feel like bored roommates, or needing help feeling emotionally close?
Our team of couples therapists help you build healthy communication skills and also help you talk calmly to each other.
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Couples therapy can be a safe place to heal after an affair, infidelity, lying, dishonesty, or secret keeping.
Our team can help you slow down, discuss topics that seem conflictual, and also set positive goals for your future together. Additionally, marriage counseling can help you gain clarity on what you both what for the future of your relationship.
Child and Teen Therapy in Southeastern Connecticut
Your child can learn tools to handle anxiety, fear, anticipation, anger and frustration in holistic, healthy ways.
If your child or young adult feels pressure to be perfect, counseling can help. Wisdom Within Counseling supports adolescents and young adults with anxiety, fear, worries, depression, and also frustration. Perhaps, your adolescent or teenager feels overwhelmed with peer stress, school drama, getting good grades, and needs emotional confidence. Holistic therapy supports self-empowerment and can also help your young adult develop autonomy.
At Wisdom Within Counseling, children, adolescents and young adults can gain self-worth skills, learn to believe in themselves again, and also create more positive friendships.
Our holistic marriage and family therapists in East Lyme, Connecticut can also help your child or teenager learn ways to cope with anger, anxiety, and loss through self-acceptance tools.
Signs Your Child or Young Adult Will Benefit From Therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut
After your child or family has been through challenging, big life events, our team of holistic marriage and family therapists can help you and your child build a toolbox for creating inner peace and confidence. When families are in conflict or parents are divorcing, children may become frustrated easily.
Additionally, self-harm, mood swings, anxiety, lack of friends, anger, or the silent treatment are signs your child or teenager needs support.
Adolescents and siblings may be fighting, hitting, yelling, or in competition. Also, loss of a grandparent or having a parent with mental health issues can be stressful for children.
You might notice emotional meltdowns, disruptive behaviors, or anxious behaviors develop.
Children and adolescents needing therapy may also be socially withdrawn, struggle to make and keep friends, feel depressed, or get into trouble.
Your adolescent may be using they/them pronouns, wanting a name change, or is coming out as bisexual or non-binary.
Maybe, your child stopped speaking, is very sensitive, and has selective mutism.
A lot of times, children just get frustrated and angry when they don’t know how to release emotions and let go.
How do creative arts help support children and teens?
Holistic walking and talking therapies support depressed teenagers in joyful movement. Being outside in nature calms the nervous system and allows one to feel a sense of inner peace.
Often, when children come in for therapy they tell their therapist, ”I feel icky all the time.” Therapists connect with preschoolers and toddlers and are “feelings doctors” for children. We would gladly help your child build self-esteem and emotional coping tools. Play therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut helps children tell their story in an age appropriate way.
Perhaps, your child or adolescent wants to paint, use clay, tie dye, learn a mindfulness meditation, or play an instrument to release and relax. With the use of mind-body therapies, children and young adults can feel at home in their body.
We find that anxious children benefit from creative, holistic play therapies for emotional expression and confidence.
In time, creative play therapies help your child identify emotions and learn positive coping tools.
Children and adolescents can gain positive outlets for anxiety through painting, art, mindfulness yoga, musical instruments, and nature therapies.
Feeling stuck with your child or teen in parenting battles? At Wisdom Within Counseling, we love helping anxious, frustrated children and parents find creative, artistic, and positive ways to release angry feelings and bond.
Play Therapy For Children
At Wisdom Within Counseling in East Lyme, Connecticut, our team knows how to step into a frustrated child’s world. Whether your child is having disruptive behaviors at school, or they are getting into fights with their siblings, or just have been saying things that concern you, we can help. Also, children may have social anxiety and need help with bullying and developing social confidence.
Just like your child goes to math class in school, attending to play therapy sessions in East Lyme, Connecticut help your child build emotional skills.
Each child has different triggers for impulsive behavior, anger, or panic. Counseling helps children understand their triggers and how to cope. In counseling, your child can feel safe processing jealousy about a peer or sibling relationship. In addition, your teenager may feel sad about the loss of someone important in their life or a break up. Your child may have anxiety and fear about moving to a new home. In divorce, separation, and blending families, children may also fear rejection and have anxiety and uncertainty that gets in the way of enjoying life.
Teen and Young Adult Therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut
Teenagers with depression can learn mindfulness tools to confidently handle stress with peer pressure at school and family
We help depressed teenagers stop self-harming, cutting, and find alternatives to impulsive behaviors. Art, yoga, and also walking by the beach in therapy can help make chaotic life transitions simpler and calmer. We offer nurturing support. When teenagers are feeling overwhelmed, anxious, or sad, it can feel overwhelming.
A teen who doesn’t have positive coping strategies may hang with the bad crowd, cut themselves, or get into trouble.
In counseling in East Lyme, Connecticut, your teenager can learn holistic ways to release anger, anxiety, and loss. In a breakup, your teenager might feel sad, jealous, hurt, or betrayed. These are all big feelings that can be processed in counseling in a healthy and therapeutic way.
Does your teenager or young adult need help slowing down the emotional rollercoaster?
Is your teenager hiding alcohol and drug use or developed an eating disorders, self-harm, or other impulsive behaviors?
For teenagers, stress, peer pressure, and dating is hard to balance. Additionally, teens often experience perfectionism without healthy coping skills. Essentially, adolescents and teens show they are hurting with negative behaviors. One of our specialities is working with adolescents and teenagers. We help them become emotionally prepared for the world, college life, and independent living. Also, creative therapy can help depressed teenagers reduce suicidal thinking.
We offer teenagers in therapy a safe place to gain self-esteem tools and feel a sense of belonging.
In therapy, we help teenagers reduce and stop self-harm and calmly sort through these big, intense emotions. Also, your teenager can learn DBT skills to sort through their emotions and what they can control, vs. feeling guilty and obligated to take care of the negative emotions of friends.
To begin, click the button below to schedule your phone consult for confidence and clarity.
Creative Art and Painting in Therapy
Painting and art in therapy can provide a sense of inner peace when you are struggling with intense inner emotions. Glitter gel pens, water color, clay, and art can promote creativity, inner balance, and healing. Art can improve communication and concentration, and even help reduce feelings of isolation. Having the option of talking alongside painting can help your child or young adult cope with strong emotions while building self-esteem and confidence.
We love to offer a variety of art options including painting, tie-dye, beads, vision boards, clay, drawing, and more!
Are you looking for a therapist to help your anxious child struggling with concerning emotions or behaviors in confident, calm, creative ways?
We teach children and young adults skills for emotional release and how to find joy in life again.
Our creative therapies offer a language beyond words for emotional expression. Play therapy is the language children use to communicate. When it comes to releasing anger, anxiety, and sadness, creative therapies offer positive outlets beyond words. Your child can also sort through overwhelming, difficult emotions, such as feeling stuck and anxious. As well, we help exhausted parents develop family structure while helping their children feel loved.
More Wisdom Within Counseling Specialities
LGBTQIA+ Counseling for Children, Teens, and Couples
Our marriage and family therapist team also specializes with LGBTQIA+ expressive children, queer and non-binary teenagers, transgender young adults, and lesbian and gay couples.
As holistic counselors, we also empower you to grow out of old, negative patterns and attract positive, nurturing connections.
The Wisdom Within marriage and family therapists can help you create a life you love and attract healthy relationships from confidence. If you or a loved one identifies in the LGBTQIA+ community and is looking for support, Wisdom Within would love to support you. Our therapists can help you navigate life’s unique challenges, process intense feelings, and develop meaningful connections with others. Additionally, we provide a safe space for you to express yourself and who you want to be.
We help families through chaotic life transitions and loss to feel grounded and close.
Families often go through difficult life transitions including loss of a loved one. Oftentimes, losing someone within the family can generate feelings of despair, hopelessness, loneliness, and grief. Have you felt upset about estranged family relationships since a grandparent has passed away? Do you fear losing another person in your family? It might feel like you are sad all the time and constantly down. You may find that you are constantly looking for a safe space to grieve, including at work.
Does it feel like your family dynamics and relationships are so different since the loss of your loved one?
Losing a significant other or a child may also completely alter your relationships and sense of self in your family.
Whether your child needs play therapy to process loss of a parent, we can help. As well, loss and death of a parent is very impactful for couples. Grief can lead to depression and disconnection. Our therapists can help you process grief in a healthy and safe way. We also help families through divorce, affairs, conflict, chronic disease or illness, and more. At Wisdom Within Counseling, we can help restore faith and hope in your family by bringing you close together again.
Start today, click the pink button below to book a phone consult to build self-confidence, a healthy body image, and meaningful relationships.
We help anxious children, self-harming teenagers, and distant couples develop meaningful connections with themselves and their mind, body, and spirit.
Online and in person, our therapists work with rambunctious children, depressed young adults, and distant couples.
Plus, in addition to traditional talk therapies, your child can choose from creative art, yoga, mindfulness, music, and outdoor nature therapies. Breathing, yoga poses, and meditation support self-regulation. Your teenager can learn to center and calm themselves from the inside out. Creative therapies foster self-acceptance, holistic stress outlets, and inner peace.
To begin, book a free phone consult using the pink button below for child, marriage, and family therapy in East Lyme.
Creative arts in counseling supports PTSD and trauma recovery through self-acceptance and self-compassion
Trauma and PTSD symptoms include
Children, teens, and couples who experience trauma show the following symptoms. You or your child may feel shock, denial, or disbelief. Also, feeling sad or hopeless is very common. At times, you experience confusion, difficulty concentrating, and question everything. Anger, irritability, mood swings are normal trauma symptoms. These symptoms can make it difficult to relate to a family member with PTSD.
High levels of anxiety and fear can make a person with PTSD unpleasant to be around at times.
If your child has PTSD symptoms, they may be fearful of trying new things, afraid to laugh, or afraid bad things will happen all over again. PTSD therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling in East Lyme, Connecticut can help you and your family overcome and talk about guilt, shame, and self-blame. We can help you if you have negative fears from living through a scary, life threatening, or emotional event. Family therapy can help family members know how to support a loved one with PTSD. Children and adults with PTSD may socially withdraw, become depressed, or have a change in eating habits.
Examples of trauma events in families that create PTSD symptoms
Experiencing COVID-19 and the pandemic was a trauma to many families, children, teenagers, and couples. Also, experiencing sexual abuse, physical abuse, verbal or emotional abuse is trauma. You could have trauma from a medical experience that went wrong. Many women have traumatic births. Having a loved one die suddenly or unexpectedly is a traumatic event and loss. Infertility and miscarriages are traumatic events. Watching violence at school, intimate partner violence, or domestic violence is traumatic. As well, experiencing bullying is a trauma. Getting in a major car accident is traumatic physically and emotionally. A sports injury is traumatic. Having a parent who was an alcoholic or who kept secrets and lied to you is traumatic. At Wisdom Within Counseling, therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut helps give you positive coping tools for PTSD.
Therapy is a way to build lifelong coping tools for past painful emotional experiences and heal from PTSD
No matter what life experiences have been painful for you, our team of marriage and family therapists can help you. PTSD can look different in parents and children. For instance, a parent may get quiet when in trauma mode. A child may get loud, yell or angry when in trauma mode. Your therapist can help you find ways to cope with PTSD. In counseling, your child gets to take back their power over the traumatizing, painful memories of the past. From holistic counseling, your child can learn to cultivate courage and believe in themselves.
Wisdom Within Counseling offers you a safe place to unload, relax, and heal from trauma.
Just like math takes time to learn, recovering from loss, anger, and trauma takes time. Often, victims and survivors of trauma are critical of themselves and blame themselves. We teach you how to stop those self-critical thoughts and learn to nurture yourself in mind, body, and spirit. You can learn to be gentle with yourself in holistic counseling.
Holistic therapies for PTSD recovery
From therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut, you have choices of mind-body therapies and relaxation skills. Yoga therapy for trauma is a specialty here. For PTSD healing, you have holistic choices of talking, walking by the beach, trauma sensitive yoga therapy or creatively painting with your therapist.
In therapy in East Lyme, CT, we help anxious children, depressed teenagers, and distant couples connect holistically through art, yoga, music, and nature therapies.
The team of marital and family therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling help anxious children, depressed teenagers, and distant couples thrive. Through talking, play, art, yoga, mindfulness, and nature therapies, you can attract healthy relationships, build coping skills, and trust intuition.
Why start at Wisdom Within Counseling in East Lyme, Connecticut sooner than later?
The team at Wisdom Within Counseling use creative art, yoga, music, and walk and talk therapies to offer lifelong coping skills. Holistic counseling helps people of all ages navigate difficult life situations with friends, peers, a boss, teacher, siblings, or in-law’s. As well, you can use expressive arts to learn to cope with family related traumas.
For instance, counseling can help support you through divorce, moving, death of a loved one, self-harm, anxiety, school stress, and the loss of a job. Building lifelong coping strategies helps you and your child have a positive approach towards life and relationships.
To begin, click the button below for your free phone consult for child, teen, and marriage counseling for confidence and clarity.
Each holistic therapy session is a creative, positive experience that fosters self-love, leadership, and acceptance.
We help you and your family through let go of anger, improve self-care, attract healthy relationships, and communicate frustrated emotions calmly and effectively. We help families in chaos thrive holistically.
Who makes up the team of creative marriage and family therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling in Southeastern Connecticut?
To begin, click the button below to schedule phone phone consult for meaningful relationships and positive coping tools.
Our Locations
We help children, teens, couples, and families in Connecticut, Florida, and Massachusetts.
