Maybe, your teenager texts you from school that they are crying in the bathroom. then, they are missing class because of their anxiety. As well, deep down, when centered, your teenager is bright and intelligent. When they have a good day, they are happy and smiling. But, on a bad day, your teenager is angry, crying, and very anxious. The team at Wisdom Within Counseling is experienced with working with teenagers and young adults with anxiety. Teenagers tend to work themselves up because they lack coping tools for anxiety. One anxious thought turns into a snowball effect. In general, adolescent and teen anxiety therapy with a specialist helps with self-confidence and positive coping skills.
Often, teenagers with anxiety and depression benefit greatly from working with a therapist.
Sometimes, it can be confusing to parents as to why a teenager is crying, refusing to eat, or depressed. Often, a parent can feel helpless and confused as to what to do next. Working with the team at Wisdom Within Counseling, can help reduce obsessive thoughts teens experience. A teenager can learn to stop anxiety in their mind and stop obsessive thoughts. It can be hard parenting a teenager who is struggling to cope with severe anxiety, depression, an eating disorder, anorexia, and bulimia. So, Wisdom Within Counseling offers parenting support sessions as well.
Eating disorders in adolescent and teen anxiety therapy with a specialist
Dealing with eating issues and anxiety based anorexia are part of adolescent and teen counseling. Furthermore, your teen’s therapist will help your teen to feel confident nourishing themselves with food. And, your teen may have lost weight recently as well. Many times, the OCD and anxiety around food and eating can prevent important gains. Not all therapists work with teens who have eating disorders, anorexia, or binge eating disorder.
As well, teens with anorexia bulimia, and binge eating may surface alongside depression.
But, the team at Wisdom Within Counseling specialize with teenagers and young adults with eating disorders. Essentially, each therapy session is about improving self-care and a loving relationship with food. Adolescent and teen anxiety therapy with a specialist can address eating disorder recovery head on.
As well, the team at Wisdom Within Counseling specializes with adolescents who severe anxiety and depression.
From learning how to manage and cope with stress, a teen can shift from hopelessness to positive thinking. Plus, at Wisdom Within Counseling, teenagers can learn to be their own best friend. Sometimes, teens push aside a part of themselves. Self-esteem tools and emotional coping skills are a part of creative therapies at Wisdom Within Counseling. A teenager can build self-confidence and process the things that happen in their day. Sometimes, teenagers are struggling with big emotions for the first time like anxiety, worry, loneliness, sadness, loss of friends, and anger. Adolescent and teen anxiety therapy with a specialist supports holistic stress outlets for depression.
To begin, click the button below for a phone consult to help your teen with anxiety and depression.
How do teenagers show they are depressed?
Depression can manifest as self-harm, self-injury, and impulsivity. Also, some teenagers with depression will just seem tired. A teenager with depress may also be wearing baggy clothes. As well, a teenager with depression may have low self-esteem or complain that they don’t have any friends. And, a teenager with anxiety and depression won’t want to attend school. Grades will drop. A teenager will spend more time isolating in their bedroom away from family. As well, teenagers with depression take lots of naps.
An integrative, holistic approach to teen mental health
In severe depression cases, a combination of medication alongside counseling can be helpful. Parents can benefit from parent only sessions to lower anxiety they may be experiencing. It can be scary if your child is now crying, upset, and in destress. At times, when a teenager has an eating disorder, a therapist can support the whole family in a healthier relationship with food. Parents can learn phrases that provide emotional support. And, a teenager can learn to overcome anxiety and depression with coping tools in counseling.
A teenager needs someone outside of their family, parents and school to improve anxiety support tools.
Trauma experiences in teen therapy in Niantic, Connecticut
To add, sexual abuse, trauma, and unwanted touch play a large role in teen development. Furthermore, teenagers may develop unhealthy emotions and blame themselves after sexual abuse. Some teens turn to drug use, alcohol use, and impulsive behaviors. As well, teenagers feel dirty, unworthy of love, and criticize themselves after experiencing sexual trauma. Teenagers often have experiences of trauma related to unwanted touch.
Experiences of unwanted touch can impact depression, OCD, stress, and anxiety.
Even if your teenager isn’t raped or sexually assaulted, any degree of unwanted touch from a past friend or sibling leads to depression and anxiety. At Wisdom Within Counseling, your teenager can learn to cope with trauma and overcome negative memories. By working with a therapist, your teenager can connect to mind-body therapies.
At Wisdom Within Counseling, art therapies, yoga therapies, drama therapies, music therapies, and walking therapies are available.
Furthermore, adolescents and teenagers can use creative art, yoga, meditation, music, drama therapies to express emotions. Teenagers benefit from creative outlets in the therapy room. For instance, your teenager can paint, use clay, or make a vision board form magizine clippings. Brining art and painting into session can provide a sense of trust and ease to the counseling process.
In Southeastern Connecticut, the team at Wisdom Within Counseling offer teens a safe place to explore gender, sexuality, and sexual orientation.
So, if your teenager is struggling with gender identify, using they/them pronouns, or identifies as non binary, we specialize in LGBTQIA+ exploration. Transgender counseling for adolescents and teenagers is one of the Wisdom Within Counseling specializes. Teen therapy in Southeastern Connecticut gives your teenager a place to talk about gender and sexuality. Plus, while they are learning about gender pronouns, they can also learn about healthy dating boundaries.
Our creative team of therapists support teens who need holistic outlets for stress and positive coping tools.
So, if your teenager is struggling with questioning their gender, you are in the right place. Our team loves helping adolescents navigate identifying as bisexual, gay, pansexual, and gender non conforming. Also, a teenager who identifies as non binary may want to be called a different name. Sometimes, this can be confusing for parents and siblings. So, having a family therapist can support in navigating LGBTQIA+ exploration. We specialize in LGBTQIA+ exploration, transgender affirming, and queer affirming care.
To begin, click the button below for a phone consult to work with an adolescent specialist for better coping tools.
Therapy helps teenagers with anxiety practice self-care
Therapy can help your teenager learn to take care of themselves. Teenagers with anxiety often develop challenges around self-care. With bullying, school stress, and competition in sports, teens need a safe place to emotionally express. At times, a teenager will not shower for days or even longer than a week. Or, a teen stops doing homework. Sometimes, a teenager knows they are their own worst enemy. They know they have struggles with food and anxiety around eating in public. And, an adolescent with anxiety will ask parents to find them a therapist. Learning about positive coping tools for anxiety can be a big part of working with a holistic counselor. Furthermore, working with a therapist can help your teen learn to accept themselves. Lastly, adolescent and teen anxiety therapy with a specialist helps a teen feel emotionally prepared for the world has to offer.
Fears of dying
At times, adolescents and teenagers develop fears in extreme areas. Sometimes, teens become afraid of dying. If a loved one or parent died, death can be scary. As well, an adolescent who loses a grandparent, pet, or sibling may have symptoms of anxiety for months after. Seeing someone die, even in a peaceful way, creates anxiety in an adolescent. An adolescent may wonder where someone goes when they die. Or, fear that their teen life is ending soon. Death is a natural part of life, but teens may feel awkward around death. But, teenagers need time and the help from a professional to process death fears.
A therapist can help your child understand the process of life and death while removing fears and anxiety.
And, your adolescent’s therapist can help them with irrational or obsessive thoughts around death. Adolescent and teen anxiety therapy with a specialist makes a big difference than not working with a specialist. For one, seeing a parent, sibling, or grandparent die, beings up worries and questions in an adolescent. Sometimes, having a parent who has a chronic illness can cause an adolescent to fear the hospital. Role playing, drama therapy, and art therapies support expression of fears around death. An adolescent specialist and teen therapist can help to process the experience of death. From there, a teenager can lean to overcome a fear of death in counseling.
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