To begin, in counseling, women may want to talk about a variety of issues. For one, the stress of being the perfect wife and the loneliness of emotional neglect in your marriage, it feels like too much. Being perfect and looking perfect are taxing emotionally. You feel like you have to do it all, and it is never enough. There is always something else to do, and you feel last on your to do list. women’s issues therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut helps you be a priority in your life again.
Sick parents and siblings
To add, your parents just got sick, which worries you. Having parents with chronic illness is stressful. You may even be their primary caretaker as well. Taking care of a sibling who has a substance, drug or alcohol problem can be life altering. When a sibling has a drug, alcohol or gambling problem, you may feel like you have to take care of them too.
Parenting stress
Parenting responsibilities can be overwhelming. It feels like all you do are piles of laundry, cook, and clean up after everyone else. As exciting and rewarding as parenting is, it can be exhausting. Your spouse may work long days, and you may feel like a single parent at times. Also, support parenting your children and marital satisfaction are some of your main goals. Just so you know, you are in the right place.
Heal from past abuse and trauma in women’s issues therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut
We offer women’s issues therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut. Holistic therapies support women in healing from past abusive relationships and childhood trauma. You can talk or do creative painting for emotional expression. Painting can be a language beyond just sitting and talking. Creative mind-body therapies support PTSD and trauma recovery. Walk and talk therapy by the Southeastern Connecticut shoreline supports mind-body awareness. As well, yoga therapies, breathing skills, and mindfulness meditation lower anxiety. Childhood trauma, having emotionally immature parents, and always taking care of others leave women exhausted and empty.
Your women’s issues specialist at Wisdom Within Counseling can teach you ways to cope with trauma memories. At Wisdom Within Counseling, you can gain a self-soothe toolbox. You can confidently learn to set boundaries and ask for want you want in your relationship. Yoga therapy, art therapy, and walking therapies by the beach can be parts of your counseling experience. Overall, learning skills to relax and stay calm will help you be gentler with yourself. These holistic, mind-body therapies help women get spiritually in touch with themselves.
Overcome anxiety, depression and panic
Sometimes, anxiety and panic disorder cause overwhelming feelings. You might have social anxiety in public places or feel anxious in groups. Other times, depression and heaviness get you down. You may struggle to get out of bed or even no longer enjoy your hobbies. Women’s issues therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut, helps you manage anxiety and depression. You can build self-care tools through emotional nurturing and feminine support.
To begin, click the button below to book your phone consult to work with a women’s issues therapy specialist in East Lyme, Connecticut.
Do you have highs and lows and big, out of control mood swings every month?
Or, maybe you are going though motherhood and loss at the same time?
Your holistic therapist can offer emotional nurturing, compassion, and feminine support through women’s issues therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut.
Do you feel like you should know how to do it all and are you too hard on your self?
Yes, anxiety and panic disorders can feel like riding a crazy roller coaster all day long. Holistic therapy in Southeastern Connecticut, a safe place to let go, can help you unload stress.
What to talk about in therapy for women’s issues in East Lyme, Connecticut?
One day, you may want to talk about your partner, better communication skills, and relationship. You may want to share about your sexuality, sexual orientation or sex life. As well, you can talk about how you feel about your romantic relationship.
The next week, you may want to express anxiety about your inner critic and trauma. Sometimes, your partner triggered some past emotional pain from a past relationship. Your holistic therapist can be a safe person to talk about your past with. At Wisdom Within Counseling, you can gain self-care tools.
In East Lyme, Connecticut counseling, you can learn skills to love and accept yourself and set healthy boundaries.
From there, you can start attracting loving relationships and healthy connections. Plus, you can go for a walk and talk session by the beach outside. As well, women can do art, paint, or use clay in art therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut to express creatively.
To begin, click the button below to book your phone consult to work with a women’s issues therapy specialist in East Lyme, Connecticut.
Stuck in a negative career? Gain empowerment, creativity, and inner wisdom from women’s issues therapy in East Lyme, CT.
To start, do you come home from work tired, depressed, and grouchy? Working in a tough job situation can be hard. Negative work environments can be tough to extract yourself from. So, having a women’s issues therapist can provide you with the power and inner strength to look elsewhere.
And, you can gain the confidence to move on with your career. In therapy for women’s issues, you can learn to value yourself and your talents. At Wisdom Within Counseling in Southeastern Connecticut, the team specializes in women’s issues therapy.
Women can gain courage, confidence, and clarity through holistic, mind-body therapies in East Lyme, Connecticut.
To begin, click the button below for a phone consult for counseling for women’s issues to improve self-esteem, self-love, and attract healthy relationships.
Do you struggle with an eating disorder or body image issues? Develop a healthy body image, value your unique talents, and develop self-respect through women’s issues therapy in East Lyme, CT.
Also, eating disorders can happen to women. For example, anorexia is a starvation, restrictive eating disorder. Women of all ages can be impacted by eating disorders, bulimia, inner criticism, and anorexia nervosa.
Does you eat very little, avoid certain foods, and intentionally skip meals? Or, you do excessively exercise to lose weight?
Do you obsess about calories and food? Have you noticed a huge amount of weight loss in yourself?
Women may fall victim to cultural shame and guilt due to advertisements. You can overcome cultural shame around food and calorie counting in therapy. If you use laxatives, diet pills, or diet tea, women’s therapy would help you. Additionally, women who have a preoccupation with nutritional content or count calories struggle with disordered eating habits in silence. If you have extreme food habits and are always on the next diet, you may have an undiagnosed eating disorder.
The team of therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling in East Lyme, Connecticut specialize in disordered eating in therapy.
In counseling, you can talk about changes in eating habits and building a healthy, loving relationship with food. As well, women who struggle with eating disorders may have changes in weight. Not all women who struggle with eating disorders are underweight or overweight. Therefore, the team of therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling can help you build body acceptance and body positivity.
Signs women have eating disorders are over exercising, purging, restrictive or binge eating behaviors.
If you are limiting your food choices and this is causing mood fluctuations, you may have an eating disorder. Additionally, women with eating disorders feel shame and guilt after eating. If you have an eating disorder, you may have rigid rules around food. You may also have rules and rigid behaviors around exercising or dieting. As well, women who suffer from eating disorders may combine strange, uncommon foods to meet these food rituals. If a food ritual con not be completed, a person with an eating disorder may feel unstable emotionally. Essentially, with an eating disorder, a woman’s relationship with food becomes fearful.
A woman with an eating disorder will always be trying to change or fix her body shape or weight.
Eating disorders need treatment right away as they can be life threatening. Refusing to eat whole groups of food like fat or carbohydrates are signs of an eating disorder. As well, having a need or compulsion to exercise on a schedule or multiple times a day is a sign of disordered eating. Body image issues can lead to a constant worrying about being the wrong size or overweight. Additionally, women who struggle with an eating disorder may pretend they are not hungry when they really are hungry. There may be too much water consumed leading to medical problems. With women’s issues therapy, women can have a safe place to heal from eating disorder behavior.
Starting counseling sooner than later can help stop your eating disorder from getting worse.
To note, these negative habits with food can lead children and teens to develop negative eating behaviors. If you notice these behaviors in yourself or your child, seek help. In self-awareness, you can identify if you have an eating disorder. With parenting, relationship stress, and career issues, eating disorders can creep up on you. Seek professional eating disorder help through East Lyme, Connecticut counseling with Wisdom Within.
We help women who struggling with anorexia who have a distorted body image, (they think are overweight when in fact they are very underweight) gain a healthy relationship with their body, mind, and spirit through holistic counseling.
Sometimes, women struggle with the cycle of binge eating.
Do you have cycles of extreme overeating, or bingeing on junk food?
Then, do you feel intense shame and guilt afterwards?
Or, do you purge, throw up, or over exercise to compensate for overeating?
To add, binge eating disorder is a real shame cycle. Likewise, if you have binge eating cycles, you are not alone.
Through counseling, you can learn to love and accept yourself. In East Lyme, Connecticut, we help women who have feelings of loss of control, shame, and guilt about overeating and fear of certain foods, learn anxiety management techniques to have a healthy relationship with food and positive coping skills to love themselves.
To begin, click the button below to book your phone consult to work with a women’s issues therapy specialist in East Lyme, Connecticut.
Build confidence and clarity, and improve your boundaries so you feel like you are a priority again.
To begin, click the button below to book your phone consult to work with a women’s issues therapy specialist in East Lyme, Connecticut.
