Wisdom Within Counseling and Coaching
Helping Kids, Teens, & Couples Build Positive, Meaningful Relationships
Children, adolescents, and teenagers struggle with anxiety. We want to recognize what’s happening with children, adolescents, and teenagers before negative behaviors set in. As a parent, you may feel overwhelmed with the anxiety your adolescent is showing. Your child, teen or young adult might be having a panic attack or start crying before school. Maybe, your child, adolescent, or teenager
Coming out of a relationship with a narcissist can be emotionally taxing. Like any breakup, maybe you find that you’re feeling a lack of self worth. Or, you may experience a significant loss of your overall sense of self. Healing from narcissist abuse, however, poses different challenges that a regular breakup may not. What is Narcissist Abuse and Narcissist Personality
Anxiety in children is becoming increasingly common and leads to learning issues. Children can demonstrate signs of anxiety as early as infancy and if left untreated, anxiety can persist throughout the lifespan. If your child or adolescent is anxious, they may have concentration issues. They may not be able to learn, retain, or grow academically. Children with anxiety commonly get
What are the impacts on mental health of having a miscarriage? Having a miscarriage is one of the major losses couples and individuals can face. Each person may experience the loss and trauma of a miscarriage differently. Couples therapy and individual therapy are parts of holistic miscarriage counseling at Wisdom Within. You both need time and space to grieve this
What are skills for a healthy relationship and how does Hartford LGBTQIA+ queer couples therapy help? First, just like you would use your hammer or your drill to work on your house, Hartford LGBTQIA+ queer couples therapy give you skills too. From marriage counseling, you get a toolbox of skills to repair after an argument went wrong. Couples can build
Are you finding that you get into the same pattern or the same fight over and over? You just feel like you’re not making any progress together when you do talk? If you’re frustrated, fighting, irritable, or hopeless after conflict, couples therapy can really benefit you. Do you want a couples therapist who can help you feel understood, and also
Right now, it feels like your family is broken. Everyone is fighting and hurtful. You may be a parent and your children have now grown up into their adult years. Facing family estrangement as a parent can be heartbreaking. Unfortunately, family estrangement can be very painful to deal with when it comes to adult children. Your adult child may be
Does your young one struggle to speak in social situations? Do you notice that your teen takes a long amount of time to open up and speak to others? Maybe your child’s teacher meets with you for a parent conference and informs you that your child does not answer when called upon or converse with others. These are all common
Reasons to get your adolescent or young adult in counseling Whether your child is dealing with a number of stressors from divorce, to bullying, to anger issues, counseling can help. Your teenager might be bisexual, gender questioning, LGBTQIA+, transgender or coming out. Your adolescent might have anxiety or obsessive compulsive disorder. Or, your teenager may even an eating disorder and
If you’re in a fighting couple unit and you feel like you’re having the same fight over and over again, Old Lyme, Connecticut marriage therapy can help. You never feel like there’s any clarity that comes from your conversations. There are intense cycles of high conflict, yelling, name calling, where you feel hopeless or helpless after a fight. You really