What are anxious teens dealing with these days? How does animal therapy help in Niantic therapy?
At times, as a parent, you might worry about your teenager and their mental health. Sometimes, anxious or depressed adolescents and teenagers need help learning positive coping skills for tough emotions. For example, letting go of anger, worry, trauma, releasing frustration, or handling bullying at school are stressors. Unfortunately, many teenagers struggle with anxiety and depression in silence due to school, family conflict, and not knowing it’s okay to get help. Overall, our creative therapists step outside the box and make being a teenager fun. Therefore, if you have a 8, 12, 15 or 16 year old daughter or son, creative therapy can boost self-esteem, relaxation skills, and confidence. Wisdom Within Counseling in Southeastern Connecticut provides animal therapy for anxiety, depression and self-esteem for all ages. Call/text 860-451-9364 for more information on Niantic teen therapy using animals, art, and walking by the beach for self-expression.
Now, does your child or teenager suffers from anxiety and depression?
Sometimes, you might want a therapy and medication approach. In this case, Therapy supports a positive coping skills, while medication support positive behaviors on a chemical level. Other times, families don’t want any medication at all, which is also a positive choice. In this case, Niantic therapy promotes skills for holistic mental health care and inner peace. In therapy, we offer teenagers holistic strategy is to make those difficult days brighter, and more vibrant. Overall, our team of counselors uses animal therapy, and creative therapies to help teenagers love themselves and love their life. Call/text 860-451-9364 for information on creative, animal therapy for depression and anxiety in teenagers.
Animal therapy for anxiety, depression and self-esteem
To begin, animals allow trust to form in a therapeutic bonds. In counseling, talking doesn’t always work for children and teenagers with anxiety and depression. Additionally, talking about anxiety, can actually make a child or teenager develop more severe anxiety and worry. In talk counseling, a child might think that they have a problem if they’re only talking. Therefore, we use outdoor movement therapy, art, painting, animals, and children’s yoga, to promote positive energy. Now, for children with ADHD, autism, or social learning needs, Niantic animal therapy provides social emotional connection.
How can animal assisted therapy in Southeastern Connecticut support teenagers who are depressed, self harming, cutting, or suicidal?
Also, if your teenager is self harming, cutting, struggling with an addiction, or making impulsive behaviors around stealing, animal therapy can help create a positive coping skills. Also, Niantic, CT animal therapy sets a foundation of self-nurturing for releasing tough emotions and healthy ways. So, if your a teenager is caught stealing or drinking alcohol, these are signs your teenager is having feelings underneath the negative behavior that need a safe place to go. Maybe, there’s been a recent loss of a grandparent, a divorce, big move, or your
teenager or high schooler just went through their first breakup. In counseling, we help you’re a teenager learn how to express emotions like anxiety, anger, sadness, and fear in positive ways for lifelong wellness. For college years, your teenager will need a foundation of emotional coping skills, and Niantic, CT teen therapy can help build up that toolbox!
Animals provide a language for communication beyond just talking and words
Also, animal therapy in Southeastern Connecticut at Wisdom Within Counseling is alternative, playful and holistic. Overall, all of the creative therapies foster a positive experience each time your teenager comes to therapy. From there, your teenager can learn to identify feelings, and develop a repertoire of skills to relieve stress, and communicate their feelings. Animals don’t talk, but they can effectively communicate fear as well as happiness.
Call/text 860-451-9364 for animal therapy for your emerging young adult’s emotional confidence and positive therapy experience.
How does creative, playful, animal therapy work so well to help connect with a depressed teenager in counseling in Niantic, CT?
Therefore, by having animals in therapy, your teenager with depression can learn ways beyond just talking to communicate their feelings. Often times, depressed or anxious children or teenagers may not want to talk at all to a therapist. For one, identifying the words can be hard. And, there is a lot of shame and guilt too. So, one of our Niantic counseling specialties is going beyond traditional talk therapy. If your teenager doesn’t want to talk to their therapist, that’s okay! At Wisdom Within Counseling in Niantic, CT, your teenager does not have to talk. Using art, yoga, music, and animal therapies, our team can understand what your teenager is feeling beyond words.
Call/text 860-451-9364 for information on creative, animal therapy for confidence and self-esteem for treatment of depression and anxiety in teenagers.
Animal therapy in Niantic, CT for better emotional expression, and holistic anxiety and depression support
In animal therapy, teenagers can smile again naturally. Sometimes, teenagers get frustrated with teachers and school, as well as family stress. Therefore, creative, playful, animal therapy allows your teenager to have a routine, and a safe place to learn how to let go of what’s negative in their life. For some teenagers, it means figuring out dating, getting better grades, and balancing school pressure with work. And, for other teenagers, this needs figuring out LGBTQIA+ matters, gender, sexuality, and gender expression. For other teenagers in therapy, creative animal therapy can help and treatment of an eating disorder, or help stop weight loss.
About Katie Ziskind, owner of Wisdom Within Counseling in Niantic, CT
Katie Ziskind, the owner, brings a playful, bubbly personality as she mixes up traditional counseling by offering animals, art, and walking outside in nature. Often times, Katie Ziskind takes children in therapy outside to the local playground to do counseling. Also, Katie Ziskind does private yoga lessons with teenagers, which still offers mental health benefits. But, yoga steps outside the traditional counseling model. Overall, Katie finds that these creative therapies boost self-esteem effectively, and provide lifelong emotional coping skills for years into the future. Katie works with all ages. She runs a team of five therapists in Southeastern Connecticut. Katie and her counseling practice offer weekend and late evening availability for counseling. Saturdays and Sundays are available.
