What does the team at Wisdom Within Counseling in East Lyme, Connecticut do? Creative options are available in holistic child and family therapy for building self-esteem. These creative therapies make talking about feelings easier. Many children need help using puppets, play dough, art materials, and nature therapies to express difficult feelings. Even couples struggle to share feelings through words. Art, yoga, and walking offer a language besides words, when words can be limiting. We help teenagers stop self-harming. Also, we help couples stop fighting. We offer counseling and help for anxious children, depressed teenagers and distant couples.
Anxiety, ADHD, and anger issues in children
If you have a child who’s struggling with frustration, you are not alone. Children with anxiety, ADHD, and anger have problems with friends and social skills. When you little one is anxious, hyperactive, or angry, counseling can help. You child may not be as bubbly as they once were, or you might be getting divorced. Children can show anxiety, ADHD, and anger from a variety of life transitions like divorce.
If you have a child that’s not as bubbly as they once were, or is feeling really frustrated and needing help processing big feelings, we would love to help using play therapies. As well, as East Lyme, Connecticut play therapy, we offer creative painting and art. You child can even nature therapies, yoga and mindfulness skills to build self-esteem.
ADHD and anger can be connected in children.
When it comes to managing ADHD, anger is one of the many symptoms. Children with ADHD may also have more sensitivities. If your child has anxiety or ADHD, they have have outbursts of anger. Having big, intense emotions can make it hard for a child to make and keep friends. Counseling can help your child with ADHD learn how to behave in school.
Untreated ADHD and anger can put a strain on family life and cause family conflicts.
Similarly, children with ADHD can also experience anxiety attacks and panic attacks that some call meltdowns. Children with ADHD, anxiety, and anger need help identifying and processing emotions. It is common for children and teens with ADHD and anxiety to act out, cry, or yell with an intense reaction. Parents can learn from counseling how to deescalate these situations. When big emotions happen all at once, children and teenagers need help in counseling learning positive coping tools.
To begin, click below for a free phone consult for holistic child and family therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling in East Lyme, Connecticut.
From holistic child and family therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut, children can learn to connect with themselves.
From self-awareness and emotional identification skills, children can gain emotional coping skills. As well, children can learn to slow down what they’re feeling and ask for help. Creative counseling helps children vocalize when they feel anxiety and ask for support.
What is unique, creative, and holistic about working with the team of therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling in East Lyme, Connecticut?
Our team of family therapists love to incorporate play therapies, art, yoga, painting, meditation, and mindfulness practices. Holistic, creative, and out-of-the-box somatic therapies help your child express frustration in a calm way. Holistic child and family therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut provides an opportunity for self-discovery.
Through creative therapies, children, teenagers, and adults have the chance to release emotions holistically they might otherwise keep to themselves.
Painting, puppets, play therapies, or using a musical instruments builds confidence right in session. Holistic child and family therapy improves emotional communication between family members. Commonly, children and teenagers show distressing emotions when they are needing help.
Going to holistic child and family therapy can help children and teenagers improve positive coping tools. Learning to cope with distress and times of chaos help children and teenagers be prepared for future life experiences.
If you have a depressed adolescent or a self-harming or suicidal teenager, our team loves teaching distress tolerant skills.
To begin, click below for therapy for teen self-harm.
Stopping self-harm and cutting through self-love skills
We also help adolescents who are depressed or self-harming or even suicidal learn the stress tolerance skills. Learning alternatives to self-harm and healthy coping strategies helps teenagers stop self-harming. Furthermore, holistic counseling helps depressed teenagers learn to love themselves.
How do creative, holistic therapies work?
Music, art, yoga, and holistic therapies can look different for each child or adult. For instance, one counseling session includes art, painting, and watercolor. The next counseling session may include a music therapy session involving chanting and singing. Another session could include playing a grounding, crystal singing bowl.
Creative counseling sessions can include another way or skill to stay calm in situations that would have previously been frustrating or angering.
Holistic child and family therapy helps children, teens, and couples cope with difficult tasks like having intense conversations. Through play therapies, art therapies, yoga therapies, and musical instruments, children, teens, and couples can develop an increased understanding of themselves and others. Emotional coping tools are built from the use of play therapies. Creative, holistic alternatives to traditional sitting and talking raises a child’s self-esteem and supports emotional resilience. In session, you can take part in shared music-making to strengthen family communication and peer relationships.
Holistic child and family therapy teaches teenagers how to practice self-acceptance.
The next time your teenager feels an uncomfortable emotion like anger or anxiety, they can have a coping toolbox from counseling. Holistic child and family therapy helps teenagers learn how to release a big emotion in a healthy, positive way. From walking therapies outdoors by the Niantic bay boardwalk, painting, and yoga, teenagers can learn to love themselves. Working through issues like self-harm, bullying, and fear of peer rejection can improve self-esteem.
Creative, holistic child and family therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut helps teenagers build self-acceptance and self-love tools.
Holistic child and family therapy helps distant, fighting couples
In addition to helping children and teenagers, at Wisdom Within Counseling, we help fighting distant couples. We counsel couples who need help reducing yelling and conflict. As well, we counsel couples healing after infidelity, cheating, secret keeping, or a painful affair. We help couples in rebuilding a sense of commitment, honesty, mindfulness and trust.
Fighting couples need help gaining clarity and communication skills.
Sexual dysfunctions, differences in libido, and issues around sexual desire are good reasons to seek marriage counseling. As well, if you and your spouse argue about finances, money or even tidiness and cleanliness, couples counseling can help. Couples therapy helps reduce blame and anger, and promotes positive conversations. Parenting values, discipline, and deciding what’s best for the children can lead to intense fighting. Setting boundaries with in-law’s and family members can be a part of marriage therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut at Wisdom Within Counseling.
Couples can use healthy communication skills with their children too.
Moving to a new home, having a new baby, or losing a loved one can all cause anxiety and anger. Even if life transitions are positive, they can still be intense adjustments.
Anger and anxiety issues may come about after losing a child, having a miscarriage, or even dealing with a spouse who is an alcoholic. Major life events like almost dying or being diagnosed with a new chronic illness can spark a need for therapy.
Whether your marriage is in distress or you want to improve your sex life, the team of therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling can help.
We love helping couples who struggle with infidelity, secret keeping, yelling and negative communication. Couples need positive communication strategies to build more meaningful connection. There is deeper emotional intimacy that comes from couples therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut. From marriage therapy, couples can learn to let go of resentment and anger.
We love helping distant couples build meaningful connection.
Complex Trauma and C-PTSD
At Wisdom Within Counseling in East Lyme, Connecticut, we also work with trauma. One of the many reasons why couples fight is unresolved complex trauma. Victims of sexual, emotions, verbal, and psychological abuse suffer from PTSD and complex trauma symptoms.
People who suffer from PTSD and complex trauma may have negative, intrusive memories.
There may be fears and anxieties about bad things happening all over again. With complex trauma disorders, you may experience changes in sleep, appetite, and moods. One moment, you may feel angry or panic, and the next you feel down or depressed. Chronic pain can be from complex trauma too. If you feel like you’ve had some bad past experiences that are limiting you today, we would love to help you using holistic therapies.
To begin, click the button below to book your free phone consult for child, teen, couples, and holistic therapy.
Katie Ziskind and her team at Wisdom Within Counseling love helping anxious children, depressed teenagers and distant couples thrive.
Are you looking for a creative, holistic, spiritual place to try art, yoga, music and outdoor nature therapy sessions?
Creative, holistic child and family therapy offers a safe place to process big emotions. From anger to anxiety or jealousy, you can talk about these feelings. When you or your child has an intense feeling, it can make your body and muscles tight. From mindfulness skills, you or your child can gain mind-body connection. Your therapist can be a positive person to guide you through a difficult time in your life.
How can you work with the team of creative, holistic child and family therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling in East Lyme, Connecticut?
At Wisdom Within Counseling, our team of therapists offer video counseling to Florida, Massachusetts and Connecticut. As well, you can pick from in-person counseling in Southeastern Connecticut in East Lyme, Connecticut.
If you’re looking for a playful approach to building healthy coping tools, our team at Wisdom Within Counseling can help. We specialize in out-of-the-box alternatives and non-traditional approaches to therapy. Painting, doing a watercolor, using clay, and art can improve relationships in your life. Yoga poses, yoga meditations, yoga nidra, and yoga breathing skills can ease anxiety responses.
Online over video and in person, you can feel empowerment, creativity, and confidence.
From outdoor beachside walk and talk therapy in Niantic, Connecticut, you can practice lifelong coping tools right in therapy. You can pick from traditional therapy when talking works. But, when talking doesn’t work, we have holistic outlets for stress for you to choose from.
We love helping anxious children, depressed teens and distant couples thrive holistically.
