Does your child or teenager have anxious, emotional meltdowns?
Has your child or teen developed concerning behaviors, an eating disorder, perfectionism, or is obsessing over thoughts?
Is your child struggling with divorce, parental separation, or blending families?
Are you feeling parental frustration or parental exhaustion and needing nurturing family guidance?
Does your child or adolescent have challenges expressing anxiety, frustration or anger?
Do you want a creative, holistic approach using art, music, and play for your child to develop positive coping skills for better self-esteem?
Sometimes, children and adolescents may develop concerning fears or worries. With anxiety, children and adolescents may not be able to verbalize their anxious feelings like an adult can. Instead, children and adolescents show you they would benefit from therapy through negative behaviors. For example, skin picking, biting, stopping speaking, hair picking, scab picking, picky eating, trouble sleeping, few friends, and other picking behaviors are signs your child has anxiety.
Does your youngster, child, or adolescent self-confidence skills?
Has your child or adolescent expressed unusual concerns or fears?
Or, obsessive compulsive disorder is a good reason to seek East Lyme child therapy. Maybe, you child is afraid of dogs after being bitten by a dog. Or, your child is afraid of eating food after getting food poisoning. perhaps, your child is afraid of going to school after being bullied by peers. Sometimes, children have a thought or memory stuck in their mind and need professional help releasing it.
So, in child and adolescent counseling, our team of therapists help with expressing and verbalizing tough emotions.
Maybe, your child wants to use art or painting to release anxiety, loss and worry. Additionally, complex factors can impact child development including divorce, loss of a sibling, ADHD, or trauma.
To start, click the button below for a phone consult for child or adolescent therapy.
ADHD and the high energy child or teenager
Furthermore, our team at Wisdom Within Counseling helps highly active children move around. So, your child can be active and move around in therapy while learning social skills. In nature, outdoors and in the fresh air, children are more open and talkative.
So, your child can have a foundation for emotional openness and developing positive coping skills.
Additionally, we offer art, painting, and yoga to help children and adolescents express their emotions and develop self-confidence. Additionally, outdoor movement therapy and play therapy help children and adolescents release stress, build self-worth skills, and develop self-acceptance.
Divorce in child and adolescent therapy
Blending families, divorces, separations, and remarriages impact children and adolescents in different ways. Sometimes, going through a divorce, a young child might withdraw socially, become timid, or even develop selective mutism.
At times, when families are divorcing or blending, a child or adolescent may have more emotional meltdowns, frustration, extreme anger, and cause chaos and your family.
In child and adolescent counseling, online via video or in person in East Lyme, our team is happy to help. As well, Wisdom Within Counseling help families create playfulness in stressful times through painting, holistic options, and music. So, within child therapy, you can do family sessions, parent-only sessions, and your child can have their sessions. At Wisdom Within Counseling, we help families build meaningful connection and clarity.
Trauma in child and adolescent therapy
To add, trauma is a major event that can impact a child for their entire life. In child counseling, we help children who have been through trauma learn that the world is a safe place again.
So, what is trauma in childhood exactly?
Well, it could be watching a grandparent die in the hospital. Many times, children may observe parents in a high conflict domestic violence fight, which constitutes trauma. Or, a child may have endured sexual abuse or physical abuse. Maybe, a trauma for your child is more medical. Perhaps, your child needed many surgeries or almost died. Perhaps, trauma is very complex for your child and your family. At times, having a parent who is suicidal or who has mental health issues is a form of childhood trauma. Also, when a child has a parent who is an alcoholic, is in an addiction, or uses substances, this is trauma.
So, Wisdom Within Counseling specializes in childhood trauma and play therapy.
Furthermore, Wisdom Within Counseling helps children and adolescents with a trauma history understand that they are more than their past. And, we offer art, painting, puppets, and creative options. Often, children enjoy play therapy, and creative art in therapy.
Plus, painting, clay, art, and children’s yoga provide and foster leadership, self-control, emotional regulation, and self awareness.
Loss and grief in East Lyme child and adolescent therapy
Sometimes, a child goes through loss at a young age from losing a family pet, sibling, grandparents, or parents. Undoubtedly, play therapy is he language of a child. Therefore, the team at Wisdom Within Counseling offer play therapy. Now, play therapies provide grieving children a language to talk about traumatic loss. And, children can feel safe talking without needing to use words in a verbal way too. Additionally, grief and loss counseling for children is all creative, holistic play therapy.
At times, play therapy can involve dancing, drama, acting, puppets, clay, music, movement, and expressive arts.
On this note, we help preschoolers and young children play out loss and heal after grief. Often, children do not receive these art specialities in their counseling. So, at Wisdom Within Counseling, the holistic, creative therapies are a unique part of child and adolescent counseling.
To start, click the button below for a phone consult for child or adolescent therapy.
Autism in child and adolescent therapy
To note, autism spectrum disorder impacts many children and families. In counseling, we help children who have autism spectrum disorder and communication delays identify, understand, and release feelings. Often times, family therapy can help parents of children with autism spectrum disorder implement accommodations in school. Overall, children with autism spectrum disorder need counseling when it comes to social and emotional learning.
Does your child struggle socially or say they don’t have friends?
Also, children with autism need help reading body language and with anger outbursts. Notably, our East Lyme therapists help children with autism through outdoor play therapy, walk and talk counseling by the beach, creative art and painting, and yoga and meditation.
Animal therapy and creative therapies in East Lyme, Connecticut
In East Lyme child and adolescent therapy, we incorporate animal therapy. Furthermore, animal therapy is with Remmy, a five-year-old Boston terrier. Furthermore, emotional support through animal therapy in East Lyme, helps children build trust, develop emotional skills, and release anger. Overall, animal therapy helps depressed adolescents see the beauty in life again. Animal therapy, a holistic therapy, helps children and adolescents overcome major life changes For example, changes can include a move, a divorce, trauma, and loss and grief.
To start, click the button below for a phone consult for child or adolescent therapy.
Selective Mutism
Often, selective mutism requires more than just talk therapy. Overall, childhood selective mutism is an anxiety disorder. To add, children may or may not be conscious of their lack of words. Sometimes, children have previously spoken. Or, selective mutism can be more apparent in different environments like school, and less at home. At times, school children refuse to speak.
Has your child stopped talking?
Other times, children with selective mutism feel paralyzed and don’t speak.
Additionally, selective mutism is comparable to the fight, flight, and freeze responses. To add, Wisdom Within Counseling specializes with children who have selective mutism. We offer unique creative therapies to build confidence using animals and outdoor creative play therapy. For example, in the freeze state, children feel unable to speak. Therefore, holistic, alternative, creative counseling can help children manage their anxiety. And, our therapists help children develop verbal and social confidence again.
To begin, book a phone consult for holistic, creative child and adolescent counseling.
Social Anxiety Disorder
Likewise, social anxiety disorder impacts children and adolescents. At times, children develop fears around social events. Also, children may not want to go to summer camp, after school activities, and parties. For children, new social situations take courage and professional coaching. Plus, someone outside of your family, like a therapist, can have a different impact. Overall, we help children and adolescents develop social skills to feel capable in all social settings. Lastly, social anxiety disorder typically co-occurs with other childhood behavior and anxiety disorders. Call or text 860-451-9364 for child and adolescent social anxiety counseling.
How does child and adolescent therapy children develop social and emotional awareness?
To note, East Lyme child and adolescent therapy promotes anxiety management skills and healthy emotional coping techniques. Overall, children and teenagers benefit from learning these anger management and social emotional skills at a young age. On that note, gaining empathy skills and self-compassion skills help with building friendships, navigating peer conflict, independence, and developing healthy coping outlets for stress. Plus, we offer your family more unique and different methods for helping children and teenagers express emotions.
For instance, we offer creative art, yoga, music, animal therapy, and outdoor walk and talk by the beach. Call 860-451-9364 for information on holistic, creative, child and adolescent therapy.
