Do you and your teenager have high conflict fights? DBT therapy in Southeastern Connecticut supports healthy communication skills for parents and children.
Have you found cuts and self harm scars on your teenagers arms?
Is your teenager showing anger, hostility, and irritability that negatively impacts friendships and social connections?
Does your teenager have highs and lows in mood swings?
And, does tour teenager have traits of impulsivity, unstable relationships, insecurity, low self-worth, and major mood swings?
DBT therapy in Southeastern Connecticut helps teenagers who have a pattern of self harming and cutting. When experiencing an intense emotion like jealousy, anger, frustration, or even sadness, a teenager who lacks in healthy coping strategies may turn to self harm. Cutting their own skin, self injuring, and taking part in other dangerous and impulsive behaviors are signs that your teenager can use DBT therapy. When your teenager feels overwhelming anxiety or anger, they don’t yet know what to do with that big feeling.
Through mixture of creative art and painting therapies, yoga therapies, mindfulness meditation, and DBT therapy, your teen gain gain positive coping tools.
We help teenagers with bi-polar disorder and BPD live, happy, healthy, successful lives. Often, DBT or dialectical behavioral therapy is a great resource for BPD.
To begin, click the pick up button below to book your free phone consultation for DBT therapy at Wisdom Within in Southeastern Connecticut.
Often times, when DBT therapy in Southeastern Connecticut is not received an adolescent and teenage years, borderline personality disorder develops and impulsive, addictive behaviors can continue into adult years creating more chaos.
Borderline personality disorder traits include self harm, cutting, and negative, impulsive behaviors.
Sometimes, teenagers and young adults with borderline personality disorder will drink excessively and use drugs excessively. Whether it is at a high school party or unsupervised on a Saturday night, your teenager may not know when to stop drinking. They may also be developing liver problems or be told by their pediatrician to stop drinking alcohol together. Unfortunately, alcohol, drugs, and borderline personality disorder can result in ultimate chaos. With self harm and cutting behaviors, teenagers may experience a loss of motivation in all parts of life. Your teenager might not want to go to school, might be refusing to go to school, or be so depressed that they want to sleep all day. Self harm can also go along side eating disorders, OCD, and ADHD. Often, substance, alcohol use, and negative relationships are part of borderline personality disorder. your teenager might be sneaking around, stealing, lying, or stealing alcohol.
DBT therapy in Southeastern Connecticut supports better decision making skills
Therefore, dialectical behavioral therapy is a great way to learn skills to develop clarity around decision-making. In self-harm episodes, your teenager might feel empty or lonely all the time. Also, extreme emotional mood swings can lead to cutting episodes and self-destructive behaviors. Often times, having a regular therapy appointment, such as at Wisdom Within Counseling, can help your teenager find stability. Also, DBT therapy in Southeastern Connecticut is helpful for eating disorders disorder also.
If your teenager has borderline personality disorder, our team of therapists can help them develop self-love and confidence skills.
Thoughts of suicide, low self-worth, and depression are also common. DBT skills can help teenagers with BPD and self-harm create structure, routines, and confidence after trauma.
Through holistic counseling using creative art, yoga therapy, and walk and talk by the beach, we help teenagers manage self-harm and BPD. Some symptoms of self-harm and BPD include irritability, impulsivity, guilt, and loneliness. Therefore, DBT therapy in Southeastern Connecticut can help you manage symptoms that come with borderline personality disorder. Borderline personality disorder is a lifelong practice of healthy friends and self-care routines.
So, working with a holistic therapist online through Telehealth or in East Lyme, Connecticut, can help you develop self-worth. DBT therapy in Southeastern Connecticut for BPD can help your teenager or young adult manage loneliness, mood swings, sadness, anxiety, and anger. Lastly, DBT therapy in Southeastern Connecticut
helps your teenager develop power and control over your most intense emotions.
Get help today for borderline personality disorder, bi-polar disorder, anxiety, depression, and manic episodes
Both patients and family or friends of people in Borderline Personality Disorder treatment must understand that it takes time and effort for therapies to work. Often, a mixture of holistic therapies like DBT, walk and talk, and painting can be helpful for confidence. Will you work with parents and their teenagers to help promote an emotionally expressive environment at home. You’re a teenager might be taking out some of their stress on you. Dealing with friendship drama and emotional pain In healthy ways support alternatives to cutting in self injury.
DBT therapy teach teenagers skills for lifelong mental wellness and self-love.
Instead of trying to push away in emotion through cutting, teenagers can learn to love and accept themselves.
Further, helping your teenager stop drinking alcohol is huge as it can be troubling for people with BPD. Likewise, self-help is essential in any therapeutic treatment. The symptoms of BPD are not easy to manage, but anyone diagnosed with this disorder can live a harmonious life if they receive help from a qualified professional.
At Wisdom Within Counseling, we offer DBT therapy in Southeastern Connecticut for self-harming teens and BPD.
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We help teens stop self-destructive and self sabotaging behaviors and attract nurturing, healthy relationships.
Using dialectical behavioral therapy, young adukts with borderline personality disorder can learn how to grow romantic relationships and attract healthy friendships. At Wisdom Within Counseling in Southeastern Connecticut, the team of therapists offer support for depression, self-love, and managing conflict in families is using holistic therapies.
We offer specialized help for BPD using creative, holistic DBT therapy in Southeastern Connecticut
Overall, the team of therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling offer a speciality form of dialectical behavioral therapy. In addition to treating mood disorders and suicidal ideation, dialectical behavioral therapy teachers mindfulness. Also, the team of marriage and family therapist that Wisdom Within Counseling in Southeastern Connecticut use a list of therapies. In an effort to treat borderline personality disorder, we offer a mind, body, spirit approach.
DBT therapy in Southeastern Connecticut promotes a positive change in positive behavior patterns such as healthy relationships, clear decision making, and reducing self harm behaviors.
Overall, the DBT skills can help your teen throughout their whole life, outside of their therapy session. Overall, DBT therapy in Southeastern Connecticut can help your teenager gain emotional confidence tools. For example, certain DBT therapy skills correspond to distress tolerance. Other DBT skills go along with managing and balancing work and personal life, exploring the root of anger, and communicating distress and anger in a calm way. DBT therapy in Southeastern Connecticut allow your teenager to build upon healthy friendships and one day, when the time is right, a healthy romantic relationship. Overall, dialectical behavioral therapy supports positive emotional regulation and interpersonal effectiveness.
DBT therapy in Southeastern Connecticut includes creative therapies
As well, holistic and creative therapies can be a part of DBT counseling. Just like your teenager will go to high school and learn about science and math, attending counseling teaches them lifelong coping skills. In school, we don’t learn how to deal with anxiety, identify anger, and cope with sadness.
Holistic, creative painting, art, yoga, meditation, and mindfulness therapies such as walking outside by the beach are available to help your teenager develop emotional confidence.
Sometimes, teenagers and young adults feel overwhelmed figuring out who they are as a person too. Furthermore, your teenager or young adult might be self harming or struggling with depression because they fear of rejection from one of their parents due to coming out, LGBTQIA+, or being gay. If one parent is clearly strict, highly religious, or even political, your teenager may have a lot of internal shame, guilt for being who they are, and fear around potential alienation due to coming out.
LGBTQIA+ queer and trans affirming teen counseling
Teenagers and young adults may be questioning their sexual orientation, coming out as gay, coming out as bisexual, or even questioning their gender. Transgender and non-binary teenagers may ask for a different preferred pronouns, or even a name change all together. Your teenager may be dressing in different clothing than they did in middle school.
Teenagers and young adults in therapy are at a pivotal point in their development and are processing so many overwhelming emotions.
From DBT therapy, your teenager can learn to create a life worth living. They can feel balance from the inside out through yoga therapy, meditation, mindfulness, and breathing techniques.
As well, your teenager or young adult can go outside for a walking therapy session. Walking in therapy by the beach, in a quiet neighborhood, or simply to get sunshine and fresh air helps to alleviate anxiety.
Additionally, your teenager can paint, use glitter gel pens, use modeling clay, or watercolors to release emotions in a way beyond words.
Creative and holistic therapy support rebuilding self-esteem, self-care, and positive coping strategies for stopping self harm
Locations for DBT therapy in Connecticut
We offer in person and video counseling to Connecticut towns including Fairfield, Cos Cob, Darien, Colebrook, Woodbridge, Old Greenwich, Rye, Watertown, Greenwich, Southport, Cornwall, Easton, Darien, Byram, New Canann, Essex, Weston, Barkhamsted, Fenwick, Hamburg, East Haddam, Norwalk, East Lyme, Simsbury, Westport, Redding, Greenwich, Middletown, Bloomfield, Stamford, Washington, Madison, Monroe, Glastonbury, Ivoryton, Washington, Danbury, New Haven, Bethlehem, Morris, Middlebury, Sharon, Kent, West Hartford, Colchester, Columbia, Milford, New Milford, Griswold, Guilford, Tolland, Stonington, Goshen, Salisbury, Killingworth, Bloomfield, Rye, Plymouth, Enfield, Lyme, Madison, Clinton, Litchfield, Warren, Avon, Wilton, Bridgewater, Chester, Deep River, Hartford, Colchester, Old Lyme, Deep River, Mystic, Ridgefield, Shelton, and West Hartford. We also offer counseling to residents of Massachusetts and Florida.
