We help children overcome loss and see the bright side to life again.
Grief and Loss Counseling
Is your family going through chaotic life transitions and loss?
Families often go through difficult life transitions including loss of a loved one.
Have you felt loss about estranged family relationships, or have had a grandparent pass away recently? Do you fear losing another person in your family after so much loss?
Oftentimes, losing someone within the family can generate feelings of despair, hopelessness, loneliness, and grief.
It might feel like you are sad all the time and constantly down. You may find that you are constantly looking for a safe space to grieve, including at work.
Does it feel like your family dynamics and relationships are so different since the loss of your loved one?
Losing a significant other or a child may also completely alter your relationships and sense of self in your family.
Whether your child needs play therapy to process loss of a parent, we can help. As well, loss and death of a parent is very impactful for couples. Grief can lead to depression and disconnection.
Our therapists can help you process grief in a healthy and safe way. We also help families through divorce, affairs, conflict, chronic disease or illness, and more. At Wisdom Within Counseling, we can help restore faith and hope in your family by bringing you close together again.
If you are worried about your child’s sadness, watch the video above. Do you ever wonder: When your child or teen is sad, when is the right time to get professional help? Are they just sad or is their sadness a sign of a much bigger problem?
Child counseling for loss in Southeastern Connecticut
First, your little one is sad, down, and really not acting as he/she used to. And, it is hard to watch your child not have the words to express what is going on inside. Often, children need a safe place, a therapist’s office, for processing feelings around loss of a sibling, pet, or loved one. Further, child counseling for loss in Southeastern Connecticut helps anxious children dealing with grief handle it in positive ways. Unfortunately, when a child counseling for loss is only talk counseling, a child will not feel supported. Instead, at Wisdom Within Counseling, we are experts as stepping into a child’s world. Lastly, Niantic, Connecticut child counseling for loss includes art, animals, music, play therapy, and yoga.
Holistic, Integrative Grief and Loss Therapy in Niantic For Children
Childhood grief and loss are some of the most difficult times. For a child, losing a pet can be the first experience of grief. For example, a child will have big feelings about loss when it comes to losing a family dog or a family cat. Then, every holiday without their beloved pet can be a trigger for tears, loss, and grief all over again. Childhood grief and loss often relates to losing a pet. Additionally, pet loss can feel like losing a sibling. Pets have shorter lives than children, so you may need help, as a parent, explaining death, loss, and where their pet lives now. Lastly, one book I recommend for losing a pet is Goodbye Mog.
Losing a pet is just like losing a family member, especially for a child
The sadness, depression, and crying is totally okay and an important part of the process. These feeling may linger and stay with a person for years. A pet is a beloved friend, a companion, and family member, just like a any human. A pet can feel like a loss of a sibling because your child’s pet was been there with them like a best friend through the ups and downs of life. It is totally okay to feel like you have a huge hole in your heart. As a parent, it is okay to cry in front of your child. Lastly, remind your child that the feelings of intense pain and loss are normal with the loss of their furry friend. Finally, as a child therapist in New London County, we help using art, yoga, music, and animal therapies.
Therapy For Kids Regarding Pet Loss
Likewise, remind your child to never let anyone make fun of them for crying or tell them that you’re being silly no matter their age. And, it is natural and normal to feel intense grief over the loss of a pet. Furthermore, it is healthy to grieve, to cry, and to express the wonderful life your pet had. And, sharing grief, memories, stories, and empathy can bring the parent-child relationship closer together such as in child and family therapy.
Mourning and Healing From Childhood Pet Loss
During the time your child and your pet were together, they had a lot of life experiences. Your child’s pet was a huge part of their daily life and a best buddy, who offered warmth, comfort, companionship, compassion, unconditional love, bight smiling eyes, acceptance, and joy! When your child looses a pet, this is a good reason to seek child therapy. At Wisdom Within Counseling in Niantic, we offer art, yoga, music, animals, and outdoor therapies to help your child grieve and process loss.
Childhood grief and loss, losing a grandparent
Secondly, childhood loss and grief can include losing a grandparent. Losing a grandparent can be traumatic, scary, beyond sad, and surreal. Furthermore, many children have different reactions. Some children refuse to cry and develop anger issues. On the other hand, some children cry frequently, before school, after school, in school, and are so overwhelmed with sadness. And, other children keep their feelings suck inside, and show you that they are totally okay, and unaffected. However, these children still have deep feelings to process, but they just don’t feel safe to let them out.
Letting Go of Grief and Loss With A Therapist at Wisdom Within Counseling
And, crying after grief and loss can be frightening for a child if friends have made fun of them for crying before. Sometimes, a child can’t seem to cry because they have been the strong one holding it in for others. So, it can feel like a relief to a child to be brought into therapy. And, a sense of calmness to be told they have a safe place just to let go. Furthermore, as a team of child therapists in New London County, we help children overcome grief and loss to see the beauty in the world again. Overall, through holistic counseling, children become more self-confident and resilient.
Childhood Grief and Loss Counseling in Niantic Can Help With:
- Childhood denial, disbelief, numbness, surrealness
- Questions your child has about death, dying, and loss
- Anger, blame, survivor guilt
- Bargaining with God
- Childhood depression, low mood, sadness, and crying
- School issues, crying in school, anger in school, fights with peers
- Acceptance, contentment, coming to terms
- Spiritual connection, believe in universal energy, and a higher power
