First, if you are shy in public and lack social confidence, you are in the right place. Building social skills and social confidence are some of our specialities. Sometimes, lack of social skills are traits of autism and aspergers. Other times, social anxiety is separate from autism. Regardless, you are not alone. In therapy, you can learn skills to be your best and overcome social anxiety. In autism counseling in East Lyme, Connecticut, walk and talk therapy helps if you don’t want to make eye contact.
How can learning social skills at Wisdom Within Counseling in East Lyme, Connecticut help?
Well, social skills help children and adults with being less socially awkward. And, learning social skills can promote healthy communication skills when it comes to dating with autism. Dating can be one of the most challenging parts of life for someone with autism or aspergers. At Wisdom Within Counseling in East Lyme, Connecticut, we help autistic couples, children and young adults thrive.
Social skills groups can help children and adults alike learn important social skills.
Expressing emotions, like empathy, can be challenging too. Talking about emotions, sharing feelings, and reading body language are just skills that can easily be learned in counseling. But, with autism and aspergers, dating can be hard. It can feel lonely if you are a young adult who hasn’t begun dating. From the outside, dating looks easy. But, why you go to get a date, you find it really challenging. Then, add the corona virus on top of that! So, people with autism and aspergers have some over lapping characteristic. For instance, these may include, speech differences, rigid routine, developmental motor delays, lack of social drive, poor social skills, and highly intellectual abilities. At Wisdom Within Counseling and Coaching, we can help you if you are experiencing any of these symptoms.
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People with aspergers and autism disorders have difficulty with communication in a variety of ways.
And, they may have self-imposed rules that limit them, or patterns that are usually very restrictive, that can push friends away. Sometimes, people who have asperger’s or autism have communication challenges that impact friendships. Making friends can be difficult. Now, with the corona virus, social connections are more greatly reduced. And, children with autism are missing out on necessary school and peer interactions. Overall, counseling can help you develop social confidence and over come social anxiety when dating with autism.
What is aspergers syndrome? Social anxiety can be helped through holistic autism counseling.
To add, asperger syndrome (AS) is also known as Asperger’s for short. To continue, aspergers’s is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by significant difficulties in social interactions. Sometimes, there are challenges reading nonverbal communication and repetitive patterns of behavior. For instance, someone with aspergers may love to read and know everything about World War II. This may be great information about history, but the way someone with autism shares it with a group may put people off. Maybe, the info is shared too quickly or with rapid speech. Or, with too extreme of excitement, that it overwhelms others. To note, aspergers and autism are separate, but overlap in some traits. A person with aspergers may not know or understand when to stop talking. Sometimes, it is hard to know when to ask another question in a conversation when dating with autism.
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Watch the video below to learn some positive coping skills for dating, building romantic connection, and self-confidence.
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Can people with autism and aspergers have a romantic relationship?
Well, if they want to! Sometimes, people with autism and aspergers identify as asexual. There is no sexual interest in some people with autism. Other times, a person with autism may want to date, and have sexual desires, but need help with social skills. At times, holistic East Lyme, Connecticut therapy can help with skills for reading body language. Southeastern Connecticut therapy can also help people with autism have more flowing conversations about others rather than focusing on themselves. Gestures likes holding hands or kissing may be offered at inopportune times, and may come off as awkward.
How can you have a relationship with someone with autism?
Having a relationship with someone with autism can mean more accommodations. For one, they may need more preparation around transitions. Also, if plans change, emotional meltdowns and fears may arise. Also, dances, social parities, and work events may cause a person with autism to be more shy. Dating someone with an autistic person can be rewarding though. Honesty, being genuine, and being real are some great qualities that can come with an autism diagnosis. But, anger and emotional meltdowns are also impacts of an autism diagnosis.
How can autism counseling help children and young adults, as well as couples?
And, if a child receives counseling for autism at a young age, anger management skills can be easily taught. Just as any other relationship, seeking couples therapy can help with improving healthy communication skills. So, there may be adjustments that you need to make when dating someone with autism. For one, understand the diagnosis and symptoms. Also, you may want to be extra gentle when you communicate with your partner who has autism. They may need more help understand your emotions and empathize, generally.
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Wisdom Within Counseling – Niantic, Connecticut
The therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling help your family, child, young adult, or your adolescent connect to inner peace and self-confidence for creating a life they love. To add, one of our specialities is helping young adults with autism learn to date and be in relationships. Also, we give children and emerging young adults a safe place to identify emotions, gain empathy skills, and let go of stress. We help anxious children with autism through outdoor play therapy. Also, the East Lyme, Connecticut therapists help depressed teens and stressed young adults express emotions. Overall, the counselors offer online video telehealth as well as face-to-face therapy to help you release anxiety, and overcome loss in positive ways.
Our Creative Therapy in Southeastern Connecticut and Through Telehealth Includes:
Art, mindfulness yoga, mindful meditation, animal therapy, walk & talk offer people with autism options beyond words. For young children, we offer play therapy for trauma for ages 3-12. Additionally, we offer you online Telehealth from any location. To add, these creative therapies especially help people with autism have other ways to communicate in ways beyond traditional talking. Plus, creative therapies support anxious young adults, children with ADHD, and depressed adults. Overall, art, walk-and-talk therapy, and talking helps people with autism and asperger’s build coping skills and social confidence. Wisdom Within Counseling in Niantic, Connecticut helps children, teenagers, couples, and people with autism and aspergers learn to socialize more successfully.
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Wisdom Within Counseling in East Lyme, Connecticut offers a whole person approach to family therapy and expertise with children, adolescents, teens, and young adults unlike any other service offered in Southeastern CT.
Our marriage and family practice is creative, and open and affirming to the LGBTQIA+ community. We offer positive, experiential therapies of art, yoga, music, and outdoor walk and talk therapy in sessions in addition to talk-based counseling to boost self-esteem and positive coping skills.
Furthermore, we help children with autism and aspergers as well as ADHD develop social-emotional skills for anxiety.
Also, we specialize with childhood and adult PTSD and childhood trauma. Often, when young adults with autism experience loss and grief, it can be hard to process alone. In holistic autism therapy, losses and grief can heal in a positive way. In autism counseling, our team of therapists also help self-harm behaviors, body image issues and eating disorders such as anorexia. Sometimes, restrictive eating disorders may go hand in hand with social anxiety and autism counseling. Let our team of marriage and family therapists help your young adolescent with ASD or yourself. We would love to help you learn about your autism or asperger’s diagnosis and thrive with confidence and clarity!
