Holistic child therapy and adolescent counseling include play therapy. At Wisdom Within Counseling, we specialize in going out of the box and offering unique creative therapies with children. Children need the help of a therapist when struggling with fear, OCD, anxiety, frustration, sibling conflict, and jealousy. Children may be picking their skin, sucking on their shirt, or having other concerning behaviors. A child with ADHD may struggle to make friends, control their frustrations, and need help in school with self-esteem. After the loss of a parent or death in the family, a child may have unusual fears and anxieties. Having a grandparent die or a family member pass away can cause major changes in a child’s life and big, intense emotions. Child and play therapy in Melbourne, Florida supports self-esteem and confidence.
To begin, book your free phone consultation for child and play therapy in Melbourne, Florida using the button below.
Child therapist Katie Ziskind at Wisdom Within Counseling shares about play therapy in Melbourne, Florida
Reasons to start in holistic, creative child and play therapy in Melbourne, Florida
A child who’s struggling with low self-esteem may be biting their nails, skin picking, picking bumps on their arms. Some children show frustration by getting into fights more often with parents, cousins, siblings, friends, or family. An increase in irritation, mood swings, or tearfulness and crying are all good reasons to come in for counseling. As well, child and play therapy in Melbourne, Florida helps children understand what they are feeling and express it in a healthy way. Our team of therapists help children with anxiety, depressed teenagers, and LGBTQIA+ queer, non binary, and transgender young adults.
Signs your child needs child and play therapy in Melbourne, Florida
Your child might be telling you that they have no friends, that no one likes them or everyone hates them. Bullying and being picked on leave a child feeling left out, anxious about social interactions, and with difficulties feeling confidence making friends.
Your child or teenager may really be struggling with feeling isolated socially. They may say they are an outcast and they don’t fit in anywhere at school. Friendships with old friends have ended and they feel rejected.
Your child or teenager may feel excluded at school from experiencing bullying.
In addition, children going through divorce, parental separation, major life transitions like moving may develop anxiety. Obsessive compulsive thoughts are part of anxiety disorders. Children and adolescents may have anxiety about joining a new school system. Going to child and play therapy in Melbourne, Florida can help your child build self-esteem. Confidence, creativity, and centeredness can help your child handle stress from a life change.
To begin, book your free phone consultation for child and play therapy in Melbourne, Florida using the button below.
Why seek out holistic, creative child and play therapy in Melbourne, Florida?
One way that we help children express their feelings in their world by playing. A trained child and play therapist in Melbourne, Florida at Wisdom Within Counseling can assess their play.
Children will use puppets to talk about and act out their stress. Therefore, your child’s counselor can build trust with them by stepping into their world of play. As well, children use play as a language beyond words.
The variety of out-of-the-box therapies Wisdom Within Counseling offers supports children in building confidence.
Painting, watercolors, outdoor nature therapies, and animal therapies support children. Times of high emotion can be challenging and scary for parents. Parent-child therapy sessions and family therapy sessions support emotional expression. Therefore, parents and guardians can gain skills to know how to help their child in a panic attack.
Holistic, creative options and outlets are available in child and play therapy in Melbourne, Florida is through play therapy.
For instance, Kimochis, stuffed feelings, are one play therapy tool to help children understand different emotions. Play therapy tools give children something to feel and to hold. From a hands on experience, children can understand how they feel in various experiences.Your child’s therapist may ask them when they felt brave, sad, hurt, or frustrated.
Child and play therapy in Melbourne, Florida boosts self-confidence. Children can talk about little wins and when they are proud of themselves. As well, children can process uncomfortable emotions that contribute to anger. For instance, child therapy can be a safe place to share tougher emotions like guilt, loss, sadness, or jealousy. Jealousy is present in competitive sibling interactions.
Children can learn ways to communicate how they feel to adults. For instance, if another child is getting more attention and your child wants attention, you child can express how they feel in a calm way.
To begin, book your free phone consultation for child and play therapy in Melbourne, Florida using the button below.
In Melbourne, Florida, child and play therapy helps families be able to talk about when feelings in healthy ways.
Sharing both positive and negative emotions and how to cope are parts of therapy. All members of the family can have a safe place to express themselves.
Being able to talk about emotions is a great lifelong coping tool for children.
Children can gain self-awareness tools for long long self-care practices. Sometimes, a child will feel cranky if they haven’t eaten enough food. A child can learn to notice when things don’t go the way they planned if they feel anxiety. Then, a child can work with their therapist to find positive coping skills for anxiety and uncertainty.
Relationships are better when children learn social-emotional skills in childhood in preparation for adulthood.
How is child and play therapy in Melbourne, Florida different than adult counseling sessions?
Having a child in play therapy means playing out stress and talking through play. Therefore, art materials, puppets, action figures, and books helps children process anxiety or loss. Children in counseling may use a puppet to share about bullying. They demonstrate that one puppet bullies the other. In general, children in counseling talk through using a puppet. Children in counseling are not able to cerebrally talk about emotions like adults can. As an adult, you can think about how you feel in a cognitive way, but children can’t.
The team of child and family therapists can use play therapy to step into a child’s world.
Learning from the developmental stage of your child, we specialize in offering these creative play objects, puppets, and action figures. Having play therapy tools in counseling helps children with anger, anxiety, and loss be able to share without talking. Children can talk about their day, parents fighting, pet loss, and when things didn’t go well in child and play therapy in Melbourne, Florida.
Musical instruments in play therapy build confidence and self-esteem
Big emotions like anxiety, anger, frustration, sadness, jealousy can be released in child and play therapy in Melbourne, Florida. At Wisdom Within Counseling, the team of therapists help children tell their story. In addition, children can have different musical instruments to make sounds. Drums, shakers, and musical instruments support creative emotional expression skills.
In play therapy, children can use a seed pod to shake and hear seeds inside.
These are mindfulness exercises or reducing stress too. At Wisdom Within Counseling, we have all different ways for children and adolescents to make sounds. Making music involves mind and body. From music therapy, children can process their feelings.
To begin, book your free phone consultation for child and play therapy in Melbourne, Florida using the button below.
Making a sound is another way, beyond just language and vocalization, to release big feelings.
If your child or teen may be on the autism spectrum, music can be healing. Children with speech delays can use music to express themselves. Selective mutism will mean your child will need musical instruments and art therapies to go beyond words. Also, if your child has challenges verbalizing their emotions, music can help with that. Furthermore, playing a sound can be a great way for children and teenagers to feel that body release. Banging on a drum can build a coping strategy and give children and teens an emotional outlet.
We step into a frustrated child’s world.
If you’ve been in therapy or your child just didn’t have a good fit with the right counselor, we would love to help. At Wisdom Within Counseling, we love helping anxious children and depressed teenagers. We also support LGBTQIA+ transgender, non binary, queer, bisexual young adults in counseling. Children, teenagers, and young adults can build positive coping strategies. In Melbourne, Florida, children and their families can gain emotional resilience.
Play therapy can help children believe in themselves after trauma and loss, even if a bully at school is being mean. Holistic, creative child counseling gives your child emotional preparation tools. Emotional confidence skills help them to handle whatever they’re feeling in an effective, calm and healthy way.
About Katie Ziskind
KKatie Ziskind is a licensed marriage and family therapist. Before opening Wisdom Within Counseling, Katie Ziskind taught children’s yoga and worked with private yoga therapy clients. She has experiences working in mental health with substance abuse and alcohol abuse treatment centers. At Wisdom Within Counseling, Katie Ziskind is the owner.
Art, yoga therapies, music, animal therapies, drama therapy, outdoor nature therapies and walking sessions by the beach are available.
The team Wisdom Within Counseling has a physical office in Niantic, Connecticut and virtual locations in Melbourne, Florida. Wisdom Within Counseling as a whole specializes with creative, holistic, mind-body therapies.
Families and children can learn healthy, positive, holistic coping tools. Play therapy encourages a healthy, vibrant sense of self and builds self-acceptance tools.
We specialize in helping children who have low self-esteem realize their awesomeness.
Children can learn to stop comparing themselves to others and believe in themselves.
When children get into counseling, it helps their whole family function better and healthier altogether.
In Melbourne, Florida, we can help your child with anxiety or depression build their self-esteem tools all through holistic therapies. We would love to help your family thrive.
