Five reasons to seek a creative counseling in Old Saybrook, Ct over traditional CBT counseling
First, struggles with anxiety, depression, concerns about your child’s emotions, and marital conflicts can be a tough part of family life. Are you a parent who wants to build a calm, stable, and nurturing life after divorce, moves, and trauma? Maybe, you think back on your past and feel inner conflict around your childhood. Was there a traumatic experience that still causes negative thoughts, nightmares, frequent crying, and depression? Holistic therapy can help you find a beautiful path that highlights your personal strengths. To begin, call or text 860-451-9364 to start in creative counseling for confidence, emotional coping tools, and self-worth skills in Old Saybrook, Ct.
Creative counseling can help your anxious child develop tools for anxiety, or your distant marriage become important and thrive again.
Therapy in Old Saybrook, Ct is your place to dump what is on your heart and mind and what is happening in your career. Additionally, you can talk about your relationship, marriage, job stress, and let go of concerns about your children. What ever is on your mind, you can share in counseling confidentially. With therapy, get back to creating a life you wake up to and love, at Wisdom Within Counseling.
If you feel like you aren’t yourself anymore, or doubt your relationship, that is a great reason to work with a therapist in Old Saybrook, CT.
Wisdom Within Counseling helps spouses who are feeling doubtful, worried, and anxious in couples therapy. You can have the scary conversations you have been avoiding or tip toeing around. Also, our family counselors help military families who move often, build routines and meaningful connection after leaves and returns. If you and your spouse struggle with financial stress, gambling, and betrayal, our marriage counselors can help you feel secure and safe. Marriage is no walk in the park, especially after finding out about an affair and betrayal. Emotional affairs are just as damaging. Therefore, the marriage therapists in Old Saybrook, CT know how to help you rebuild trust and a positive, loving, nurturing marriage again.
Working with creative therapists in Old Saybrook, CT can help you develop confidence and clarity in relationships.
In relationships, fights happen. But, if your relationship fights involve yelling, door slamming, and silent treatment, you need therapy. If you are in a relationship with negative communication, you may feel hopeless, depressed, or sad. Or, you may feel like business partners or roommates with your spouse. You might doubt your marriage and wonder if you are important to your spouse.
Work with experienced, holistic family therapists in Old Saybrook, CT. Call or text to begin 860-451-9364 in creative counseling for better self-esteem today!
Has your child come to you with concerning questions about their gender?
Transgender children and teens have the desire to shop in the opposite gender’s clothing section of the stores. So, if you have a biological boy, they’ll want to wear female gender clothes. For instance, a young boy may want to grow his hair long. Often, children begin to show symptoms of being transgender around 4 or 5 years old. When a child is transgender, they begin to want to choose the clothes or dresses they wear. Wisdom Within Counseling specializes in transgender and gender questioning therapy for children and teenagers. Therapy can help you be affirming as a family if your child or teenager chooses to shop in the opposite gender’s section. At Wisdom Within Counseling, working with transgender children in therapy is a specialty.
Is your teenager struggling with an eating disorder like anorexia or bulimia?
Many times, when parents find Wisdom Within Counseling, a group of holistic therapists in Old Saybrook, CT, it is after teen therapy hasn’t worked. Perhaps, you are looking for a therapist to connect in a unique way? Well, outdoor child therapy offers play therapy to children to build trust and confidence. Now, the last therapist you went to only tried sitting and talking with your high energy adolescent. And, it is no surprise that it was not a good fit. Our creative therapists in Old Saybrook, CT help anxious adolescents and teenagers develop leadership and self-awareness. Plus, painting with acrylics or using modeling clay can make child therapy fun. Also, children with anxiety and teenagers with depression in counseling can choose from talking or clay or art.
To begin, call or text for child, family, or marital creative counseling in Old Saybrook, Ct.
Creative art therapy, dance therapy, and nature therapies offer life skills beyond just words for communication
Additionally, yoga and mindfulness offer amazing mental healthy benefits for children as well as adults. Now, there is a ton of research for children’s yoga. To add, children’s yoga can improve ADHD, anxiety, focus, memory, and self-esteem. Perhaps, your teenager is making the wrong choices in friends and hanging with the wrong crowd. Or, has your young adult has been declining in their academic work. Well, yoga in therapy can help academic performance improve. Lastly, our creative therapists in Old Saybrook, Ct help classroom behavior improve. Yoga therapy for children in counseling can reduce anxiety and stress in teenager years too. To begin, call or text 860-451-9364 for creative counseling in Old Saybrook, Ct.
At Wisdom Within Counseling, our holistic family therapists in Old Saybrook, CT offer unique forms of creative arts.
Art, yoga, music therapy, and walking therapies support children and teens in better self-esteem. Plus, these creative therapies help with social confidence and independence. Furthermore, the Wisdom Within Counseling holistic therapists in Old Saybrook, CT step outside the traditional sit and talk box in child therapy. Your child can go outside for a nature walk to learn about regulating intense emotions for ADHD like anger. Or, your teenager with depression can choose to go for a beachside therapy session to walk and talk about peer drama. Lastly, each therapist at Wisdom Within Counseling offers positive coping tools for lifelong confidence and clarity.
Your creative therapist in Old Saybrook, CT develops healthy dating skills and positive coping tools for anxiety and depression
Right now, do you find your mind doing the same thing over and over? Well, our creative therapists offer anxiety tools to help you stop your negative thoughts.
Do find yourself dating the same type of person, where you keep feeling hurt, lost, and in unstable relationships?
Furthermore, couples and relationship therapists in Old Saybrook, CT help you notice negative patterns of thinking and choose positive connections. For some people, negative relationships relate to low self-worth and over care taking. Relationship therapy can help you improve self-worth and develop healthy relationships. At times, being a child of adult alcoholic parents can mean that you didn’t get to have a playful childhood. So, playful therapies may be exactly what you are looking for. Perhaps, you grew up with neglect, abuse, and childhood trauma, and a feeling of low self-worth. The therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling specialize in trauma therapy using creative therapies. To begin, call or text 860-451-9364 in creative counseling in Old Saybrook, Ct.
So, individual, family, couples and relationship therapy can be a playful process of health and healing in mind, body, and spirit.
Traditional talk therapy alone is not effective for trauma therapy or for everyone
Often, talk counseling is very positive. For one, you can sit on a comfy couch and unload about your day, work, and troublesome relationships. But, when you don’t want to talk, the creative therapists in Old Saybrook, CT specialize in connecting beyond words. On that note, painting with watercolors, using clay, and drawing in therapy can open up new emotions.
For anxious adolescents, who love gymnastics and movement, yoga therapy, yoga poses, and breathing can help with anxiety.
Furthermore, yoga therapy helps parents and adults build a positive coping toolbox by having an outlet for stress. Plus, walking by the beach with your therapist in Old Saybrook, CT can be a great outlet for loss and trauma. Maybe, you loved your last therapist dearly. But, you want to be able to move around, be active, and do art in your therapy journey. Talking is combined with art, yoga, music, and other creative therapies.
To begin, call or text 860-451-9364 for holistic, playful, creative counseling for positive relationships in Old Saybrook, Ct.
Counseling can be a beautiful, self-loving, nurturing journey.
It might take a couple appointments to get to the counselor. Plus, you might need to try a video session, phone session, and texting session. You might need to sit in person to get the most out of therapy in Old Saybrook, Ct. For children in counseling, in person counseling is most essential for taking advantage of outdoor play therapies. On that note, children and teenagers may need a creative, personalized path of reaching their self-esteem goals like Wisdom Within Counseling. Often, families and people find Wisdom Within Counseling because past counseling was a negative experience. Really, the process of counseling works, but it takes finding the right fit.
If your counselor was not a good fit, don’t lose hope, just try another fit.
Essentially, the number one part of counseling is the relationship with your counselor. So, take your time to find the right personality for complimenting yours. Ideally, in three sessions, you want to feel heard, connected, and understood. But, counseling is a place to start talking about all the things you can’t talk about at work or with your loved ones. But, if you don’t want to talk, we can help you express anger, anxiety, and loss in healthy ways using art, yoga, and creative therapies too.
To overcome more challenging mental health diagnoses like borderline personality disorder, bi-polar disorder, and PTSD with a specialized therapist in Old Saybrook, CT
The therapist at Wisdom Within Counseling specialize in more challenging mental health disorders like bi-polar disorder and borderline personality disorder. Often, PTSD goes hand in hand too. With mental health conditions like bi-polar disorder and borderline personality disorder, you may experience changes in mood, mood swings, sadness, elevated mood, anger, and anxiety. So, if you experience apathy, apprehension and then euphoria, these are symptoms of mood swings. Also, people with bi-polar disorder and borderline personality disorder experience general discontent, guilt, hopelessness and loss of interest in hobbies.
Why Wisdom Within Counseling offers bi-polar disorder and borderline personality disorder therapy
Bi-polar disorder can look similar to depression and the loss of interest or pleasure in activities. But, with bi-polar disorder and borderline personality disorder behaviors are unstable and fueled by irritability, high risk taking behaviors, and disorganized behavior. Often, people living with bi-polar disorder and borderline personality disorder have high conflict relationships, aggression, agitation, and frequent crying. Many times, treating these disorders requires a mix of mind, body, spirit therapies, which Wisdom Within Counseling offers. Wisdom Within Counseling teaches skills for lifelong coping.
Notably, with bi-polar disorder and borderline personality disorder there is often sex addiction or excess desire for sex, hyperactivity, impulsivity, and restlessness.
At times, people who have bi-polar disorder and borderline personality disorders also have a layer of PTSD. From childhood sexual abuse, PTSD can develop. Also, cutting, burning, skin picking, and self-harm are markers of bi-polar disorder and borderline personality disorder. Overall, bi-polar disorder and borderline personality disorder are much more intense than dealing with anxieties, a job change, or unwanted thoughts. Often, bi-polar disorder and borderline personality disorder have symptoms of intense anger, delusion, lack of concentration, racing thoughts, and false belief of superiority. Family members who have a loved one with bi-polar disorder and borderline personality disorder often experience home life similar to that of a child living with an alcoholic parent, with the emotional instability. With bi-polar disorder and borderline personality disorder symptoms, co-dependency and addiction occur when not treated by a professional therapist.
To begin, call or text 860-451-9364 to learn about creative counseling for confidence and healthy communication in Old Saybrook, Ct.
Lastly, if you or a loved one experiences anger, depression, manic episode, agitated depression, or paranoia, one of our therapists in Old Saybrook, Ct can provide an evaluation and assessment for bi-polar and borderline personality disorders.
