Are longing for positive growth for your anxious child or depressed teenager refusing to talk or “not talking?”
Is your marriage stuck in a negative cycle of fighting, anger, hopelessness, and conflict?
We offer child therapy, teen therapy and couples therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut.
To begin, click the button below for a phone consult to start your child or teenager in creative, expressive, holistic, and out-of-the-box art therapies for confidence and self-esteem.
Would you like your child to stop criticizing themselves and doubting themselves, and instead learn to accept and love themselves?
You might be looking for alternatives to traditional talking or a sense of playfulness again. Well, we offer a variety of creative therapies including art, yoga, music, and walking therapies outdoors. Creative therapies support families, children, and couples in building self-confidence and self-compassion.
LGBTQIA+, Transgender Affirming Therapy, and Non-Binary Affirming Therapies
Outdoor Walk and Talk Therapies For Anxiety Coping Tools
Also, are you hoping your child can build a positive relationship with a therapist who really “gets” them?
Our team of creative therapists would love to support and encourage your child on their journey and support self-confidence!
Holistic and Creative Arts in Therapies Support Expressing Intense Emotions Beyond Words
Playful and Expressive Music Therapy
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Meditation and Yoga Therapy
Adolescent and Teen Therapy
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Creative Art and Painting in Therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut
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Outdoor Play Therapies in Child Counseling
Family Therapy Using Play, Puppets, Art Therapy and Creative Outlets
A child with social anxiety or school based anxiety can learn to express it through art and painting.
And, Niantic, CT art therapy can be incredibly beneficial for all mental health challenges. For instance, art therapy can be a vehicle for expression and change when a child doesn’t feel like talking in therapy sessions. Perhaps, your child doesn’t have words for the emotions being felt. Or, your child is severely depressed and chooses not to speak as a form of control.
Creative art therapy in Niantic, Connecticut can be a technique that facilitates growth, helps your anxious child feel capable in the world again!
Also, creative art therapy in Niantic can bring your family together in deeper ways than words can covey, and boost self-confidence.
Nothing we do will cure your child because they are not broken. They may be going through a very rough and difficult time.
What does an art therapy session look like?
In art therapy sessions in Niantic at Wisdom Within Counseling, your child can use a variety of mediums including: sculpting with clay and play dough, drawing with crayons, glitter gel pens, markers, colored pencils, and pens, painting with acrylics, and music. And, holistic, expressive art therapy session can similar to a talk session. But, your child can use art to go beyond just words, where talking may happen alongside the painting or art.
Clay, painting, glitter gel pens, dance, drama therapies and creative, art therapy can be an instrument that can help guide and promote mental health.
Working with a holistic, child therapist in Niantic, Connecticut that uses art therapy can help your child have lifelong coping tools. Art therapy for children and teens can be a skills for releasing lifelong stress and promote wellbeing for all ages.
A Note From Katie Ziskind LMFT, Children’s Yoga Therapist
In conclusion, therapy in general is a process that takes commitment, time, patience, and perseverance. Remember, starting therapy is the hardest, most challenging part. And, working with a creative, child therapist in Niantic that uses art therapy can help promote positive change.
Children need a positive role model outside of school, family, and home relationships.
From play and child therapy in Niantic, Connecticut can help your little one build positive skills, develop confidence, and a healthy sense of self.
How long does art therapy take?
Every child, adolescent, youth, and family has their own process. For instance, it takes many months for a flower to root, sprout, grow, and bloom as well as many factors including air, water, sunlight, energy, climate, and time of year. Moreover, the length of your child’s therapy really depends upon their specific needs, your parenting desires, therapy goals, social learning abilities, intellectual understanding, and consistency with weekly or twice a week sessions. Wisdom Within Counseling in Niantic, Connecticut supports families in distress and conflict through play, art, yoga, and expressive arts.
Family Therapy and Art Sessions In Niantic
Furthermore, family counseling sessions are another are where art can be added into counseling. As well, working with a creative, child therapist in Niantic that uses art therapy helps you build a playful relationship with your little one. In parent child counseling sessions, art can promote joy, connection, and trust.
We help children who don’t want to talk express their feelings.
So, creative art can be a vehicle for expression and change when your child doesn’t feel like talking in therapy sessions.
Why work with a teen and child therapist in Niantic, Connecticut that uses art therapy?
As holistic therapists for children and teens, we believe art is a language beyond only sitting and talking. Under stress, trauma, and anxiety, children and teenagers can process and release worry through art.
If your anxious child or depressed teen wants to express themselves, they can use clay, paint, or use watercolors.
As well, we find that art helps to lower performance anxiety and build playfulness. Art, painting, clay, glitter gel pens and expressive arts give a child or teen a safe place to share what they feel beyond just words.
Overall, working with a holistic, out-of-the-box, creative child therapist in Niantic that uses art therapy can help your whole family.
Benefits of Art-Inspired Therapy in Niantic, CT
First, we understand you are a parent searching for the very best answers and techniques to help your frustrated, angry, or anxious child. A divorce can be stressful. Children may develop social anxiety or fears that a therapist can help them work through. Wisdom Within Counseling would love to help your child thrive and get back to loving life. Working with a holistic child therapist in Niantic that uses art therapy can help your child believe in themself again.
To begin, click the button below for a phone consult to start your child or teenager in creative, expressive, holistic, and out-of-the-box art therapies for confidence and self-esteem.
Thinking About Art Therapy in Niantic?
When children are stressed, talking can be difficult. And, for children with social anxiety, fears of failure, a need to be perfect, or children with autism, art therapy can be a great avenue for releasing emotions beyond just words. Also, children going through divorce, trauma, or LGBTQIA+ children, need more than just talking to feel supported.
How Does Art Therapy Help Children Feel Self-Confident?
Furthermore, art-focused therapies at Wisdom Within Counseling in Niantic are positive, constructive remedies to ease discomfort. And, art can help your child process challenging feelings stuck inside. Also, art therapy takes fear, worry, and intimidation out of the room. So, your child can feel stronger, more self-confident, and positive about him or herself. Therefore, art promotes a sense of personal independence in your little one. Lastly, Niantic art therapy can help your child feel safe, empowered, and resilient!
Community Outreach: Narrative Art Therapy Group at East Lyme High School
Secondly, below is a photo taken on May 21, 2018 when Katie Ziskind, the owner of Wisdom Within Counseling in Niantic, volunteered at East Lyme High School with a Life Skills class. And, Katie Ziskind, LMFT, RYT500 guided a narrative therapy Tree of Life exercise. Likewise, the art of life exercise brought art therapy into the classroom. Lastly, Katie Ziskind shared different approaches to self-care and emotional expression.
What Is Next In The Tree of Life: Art Therapy in Niantic
Next, draw your branches. Now, think of your goals, where you want to go in life, and your hopes and dreams. For instance, one student wanted to goto Disney Land one day. So, she drew a picture of Mickey Mouse ears on her branches. Likewise, one student at East Lyme High School, wanted to be a doctor, so she added that into her branches. Next, the leaves are people who have inspired you, including pets and people who have passed away.
Sometimes, students add grandpa or Nana who has passed, or best friends in the classroom. Lastly, add your fruit. Your fruits are the gifts you have for the world and the talents you bring to your community. For instance, your talent may be listening, being a good friend, or even playing the guitar.
Creative Child Therapy Using Art as a Healing Technique
Art therapy, an evidence-based technique, is one of many healing modalities offered for girls and boys in Niantic. Further, creative art through self-care kits, play, and painting are capable of helping your child develop self-regulation. And, your child can express tough emotions of guilt, sadness, shame, abandonment, and grief related to divorce, break up’s, or death of a loved one through expressive arts.
To begin, click the button below for a phone consult to start your child or teenager in creative, expressive, holistic, and out-of-the-box art therapies for confidence and self-esteem.
How Does Art Therapy in Niantic Help Self-Confidence and Happiness?
First, anxiety about school, worries about parent’s divorce, trauma, and loss of a family dog can be part of childhood years. Sometimes, children will be the “joker” in class and make disrespectful comments to be like-able, gain respect, and numb the pain. So, your child can use art therapy in Niantic to understand their own feelings and release them in healthy ways. And, your child’s therapist will guide your child to wellness and inner happiness with positive coping skills. Furthermore, creative, holistic art therapy in Niantic is a universal and expressive language that helps to release deep emotions and memories held in the conscious and the unconscious mind.
How Does Art Help As A Universal Expressive Language?
At Wisdom Within Counseling in Niantic, the team of therapists help families heal through art. The team uses highly effective, skill-based therapies to help your child feel confidence in school, home life, and bring these skills into college years and beyond.
Why Creative Art Therapy for Children and Teens in Counseling in Niantic, Connecticut?
If you are getting divorced, often your child or adolescent feels pulled between both separating parents, especially when there is high conflict. Often, words can be difficult. Therefore, Niantic art therapy plays a vital role in expressing emotions, releasing feelings, and asking for specific needs to be met by your family members.
Overall, Niantic art therapy is fundamental and an essential part of my practice model because it is instrumental in assessing and treating a variety of emotional and behavioral issues.
Therefore, creative art in child therapy in Niantic promotes a sense of personal independence, inner strength, confidence, and emotional expression in your little one.
“Art washes from the soul the dust of everyday life.” ~ Pablo Picasso
Creative, Art Therapy For Children
“Art therapy is used with children, adolescents, adults, older adults, groups, families, veterans, and people with chronic health issues to assess and treat the following: anxiety, depression, and other mental and emotional problems; substance abuse and addictions; family and relationship issues; abuse and domestic violence; social and emotional difficulties related to disability and illness; trauma and loss; physical, cognitive, and neurological problems; and psychosocial difficulties related to medical illness.” (American Art Therapy Association, 2012, Online)
To begin, click the button below for a phone consult to start your child or teenager in creative, expressive, holistic, and out-of-the-box art therapies for confidence and self-esteem.
Wisdom Within Counseling loves helping children, teens, and parents feel self-confidence again.
A Complimentary Technique To Traditional Talking: Art Therapy
When children don’t have tools to identify what they are feeling, they will have more tearful meltdowns. Your child may have stopped talking or started having concerning behaviors.
As well, meeting with a holistic, child therapist in Niantic that uses art therapy can help you see your child’s strengths and know how to help them when they have panic and anxiety. As well, the team of therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling in Niantic, CT can support parents in understand what they child need in a moment of stress or panic.
Gottman Therapy and Art, Creative Therapies in Couples Counseling in East Lyme, Connecticut
