Do you have social phobias? Well, COVID-19 may naturally cause you more anxiety from watching the news. Fearful about eating certain foods now? Has your child developed an eating issue? Eating disorders like anorexia or bulimia can increase under stress and anxiety. Treatment of eating disorders are one of our counseling specialities. Would you like to have a calm, balanced lifestyle rather than chaotic or hectic? Feel anxiety all the time? Our marriage and family therapy team can help! You’re in the right place! Keep reading below to learn more about managing depression and anxiety in healthy ways.
For one, if you are stuck at home, you may feel more anxiety and depression.
Being human, you are a social creature. And, we thrive off emotional connection with others. Maybe, you miss your regular time away from home at work. Or, you miss time to yourself outside the role of parenting. Homeschooling your children wasn’t what you were planning on top of the stress of working from home. So, without it, you may feel down, tired, be more tearful, sleep more, and feel sad. Therefore, when there are restrictions put on social interaction, you may feel more intense anxiety and depression. Overall, the team at Wisdom Within Counseling and Coaching helps people overcome worry, panic, social anxiety, social phobias, and depression.
To begin, start with telehealth video session from the comfort of your home or any location worldwide. Call or text 860-451-9364 to begin with a free phone consult.
Plus, we give you skills to cope outside of holistic counseling sessions. In anxiety and depression therapy, you can choose from ways beyond just talk counseling like creative art, yoga, music and outdoor therapies to express your emotions and love yourself.
Who do we help? We help anxious children, depressed teens, young adults with LGBTQIA+ exploration, and high conflict couples. Talking with a professional about dating can help you feel supported making healthy decisions. From a walking therapy session in East Lyme, Connecticut, you can naturally manage anxiety and depression. Under stress, you can feel physical pain and trouble sleeping. Going for a walk with your therapist can help you gain clarity and confidence to reach your career, personal, and family goals. Through mindfulness, yoga, meditation, and poses, you can take back your personal power over anxiety. For example, your therapist can meet with you over telehealth, video, or texting therapy.
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COVID-19 has been a huge change for many people. For some, being at home with siblings can be a nice comfort. Spending time together can help siblings bond. Without being able to go out, you may play board games together or go for a walk outside. Also, being with family can get conflictual. Remember, to use your coping skills to focus on calming your reaction avoid conflict. Use your breath to ground and center yourself. Inner peace begins with taking a deep breath and slowing down your mind. Slowing down your thoughts can help anxiety and you can do this by breathing!
What are some holistic positive coping skills for anxiety and depression, as alternatives to medication?
Good question! Often times, we are trained to think that our only remedy is taking a pill or a medication to stop the feelings we have. However, you can call on your positive coping skill toolbox and go outside for a walk by the beach or paint something with your watercolors to express your anxiety. This is not a quick fix like a pill or medication. But, instead walking or painting can allow you to move your challenging feelings in a healthy way. You can always use your coping skills learned from therapy sessions.
What are some specialized and unique therapy model is that you use and offer in anxiety and depression therapy?
When it comes to dialectical behavioral therapy, or DBT, we teach you about The skill of self compassion. Try using compassion now! Remember, be gentle with yourself and love yourself through the feelings. For example, identified and welcome anxiety rather than pushing anxiety and depression away. When you push emotions away, they might linger Instead. Try to get to know all of your emotions with compassion. DBT skills are helpful for overcoming anxiety and depression in therapy. Also, as marriage and family therapists, you can choose internal family systems as a model of family therapy. Overall, internal family systems therapy helps build confidence, compassion, courage to be yourself. One of our marriage and family therapists can help you gain holistic, creative positive coping skills for healthy communication.
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What is internal family systems therapy when it comes to anxiety and depression therapy? Wisdom Within Counseling offers online Telehealth, in person in East Lyme, Connecticut, and through texting!
COVID-19 has been a real scare. So, new protective parts may have developed from fear and anxiety. Do you worry about the future? Worry about socializing again? We can help! On that note, internal family systems is a model of therapy that help you acknowledge all parts within yourself and bring compassion to those exiled feelings. In general, internal family systems is a model that we use to help to treat eating disorders, anorexia, bulimia, post traumatic stress disorder, borderline personality disorder, and bipolar disorder with a mania episodes. Internal family systems in individual and family therapy is very healing. You can gain holistic anxiety and depression coping skills to be your own best friend and acknowledge all parts of yourself, your inner child, and wise self. For instance, parts of you might sabotage your wildest hopes and dreams for yourself.
Do you have limiting, negative beliefs about yourself?
In anxiety and depression therapy, your counselor can help you overcome your self sabotaging parts. Also, from anxiety and depression therapy, you can grow in self-worth and truly nurture and heal the stuck, self-sabotaging parts. We help you develop clarity and confidence in holistic counseling.
