DBT skills for adolescents and teenagers can help anxious young adults learn how to calm and soothing themselves when they are having intense emotions.
Does your adolescent have fears around social events, conflicts with friends, or intense emotions?
Has your adolescent enjoyed DBT skills before?
Does you teenager self-harm, cut themselves, use drugs, or have an eating disorder that needs help?
Does your teenager have a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder?
When in a calm environment, it’s easy for teenagers to be peaceful. They like being in control, but need help with friends, emotions, and self-care. However, when your adolescent feel triggered, they may become frantic or even out of control. Often, a teenager with depression and anxiety does not know how to deal with intense negative thinking. Maybe, your teenager says they do not like going to East Lyme High School. Perhaps, you are watching your teenage get less and less interested in school. As well, as a parent, when you try to address homework or academics with your teenager, it might break out into a conflict or a heated argument.
How does DBT help food issues and eating disorders in adolescents and teenagers?
Your depressed teenager might also have troubles eating food. They may chew food and spit it out. Even going to eat out as a family may now be impossible due to their moodiness, anxiety, worries, or anger. At times, adolescents and teenagers with depression struggle with eating disorders like anorexia.
To begin, click the button below for a phone consult to begin DBT for adolescents in East Lyme, Connecticut.
What does anorexia look like in a teenager?
With anorexia, teenagers will begin cutting and restricting calories, or even have a fat phobia. Often, a teenager with anorexia will restrict certain categories of food like no bread or no bananas. Teens with anorexia make up very specific rules around eating that make their worries about food worse. Many times, teenagers with eating disorders do not know how to process negative feelings in healthy ways. Teenagers who have binge eating disorder, bulimia, and/or anorexia benefit from DBT skills at Wisdom Within Counseling in East Lyme, Connecticut.
How DBT skills support adolescents and teenagers in counseling in East Lyme, Connecticut?
Outside of counseling in East Lyme, Connecticut, your teenager can use their DBT skills for calmness and mindfulness. Commonly, teenagers may have social and emotional fears. DBT skills are very positive for teenagers to help manage mood instability and confidence. Plus, DBT skills can support holistic coping strategies alongside medication if that is necessary. Sometimes, teenagers do well with counseling alone. Other times, a combination of medication and counseling helps teenagers with borderline personality disorder (BPD).
In what ways do DBT skills help with school avoidance in teenagers with depression and anxiety?
Teens may get tearful before school and have anxiety about friends. Whether your teenager is being homeschooled, is in public school or even a private school, they may still have fears. As well, adolescents may have so much anxiety before school that they can not make it there. So, DBT skills help anxious adolescents who avoid school manage their uncomfortable emotions. DBT skills help your teenager calm themselves before school. At Wisdom Within Counseling in Southeastern Connecticut, our team specializes in helping adolescents feel motivation for academics and school.
To begin, click the button below to begin in DBT for adolescents in East Lyme, Connecticut.
Your teenager might become tearful, angry, or anxious on the way to school.
As well, we help adolescents and teenagers who have school avoidant behaviors. You might be deciding between changing schools or whether or not your teenager should repeat a grade. As well, you might be considering homeschooling your child or your teenager and needing a counselor to help clarify emotions around this big decision. The team of creative therapists can help at Wisdom Within Counseling in East Lyme, Connecticut.
What are reasons to start your adolescent in DBT therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut?
Your teenager may have trouble concentrating, low motivation, or even have problematic behaviors like getting lost in their own negative thoughts.
In what ways do DBT skills help adolescents manage friendship conflicts, social arguments, and suicidal friends?
Does your teenager care too much about friends that don’t care back?
From an intense argument or a break up with a friend, great adolescent might become frantic or panicky, or even out of control. With friends, it is common for adolescents and young adults to get overly attached. A friend might move away and this might cause your teenager to become impulsive, self-harm, or shut down emotionally. As well, emotional challenges due to friends are a huge issue for adolescents. Perhaps, your adolescent feels like they are not fitting in. Not having a sense of place and belonging is a big issue for teenagers. Friend groups might be changing, or your teenager might identify with being an outcast. Sometimes, teenagers will become suicidal and even try to take their own life when they feel like an outcast.
The friend arguments or a recent break up do not have to be as powerful and overwhelming as your teenager is making it out to be.
In this case, DBT skills can help promote relaxation on a personal level. From DBT therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut, your adolescent can focus back on themselves. They may feel pulled between friend groups and in inner conflict. Holistic DBT therapy helps your teenager visualize a peaceful place within their mind and body. At Wisdom Within Counseling in Southeastern Connecticut, our team specializes in helping adolescents and young adults build self-esteem.
Using creative arts and DBT skills, our team of therapists can support your adolescent in building emotional confidence.
Suicidal thinking, cutting, and self-harm therapy
Often times, when a parent asks their teenager if everything is okay, their teenager will cover up their emotions and say that they are fine. Really, your teenager might be struggling with suicidal thinking and not be telling you about it. Helping your teenager meet with a creative therapist can help them build clarity. As well, creative, holistic, DBT therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut helps teenagers find hobbies they love as well as new meaning to life.
What self-care tools for lifelong wellness are part of creative DBT therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut?
In working with a therapist who specializes in DBT skills, your adolescent can learn how to practice self-care. Self-care habits might not be easy for your teenager especially if they are suffering from anxiety, suicidal thinking, or depression. Your teenager can learn mindfulness and grounding skills such as drinking more water, reducing caffeine, avoiding drugs and alcohol, and even exercising regularly. As well, your teenager might need help in DBT therapy finding what hobby they like such as ice-skating, cooking, or even gymnastics.
What do teenagers with depression change their hobbies or stop hobbies they used to love?
Your adolescent or teenager might not like an old hobby they used to do because they associate it with friends that are now being mean to them. In addition, old friends may be bullying them, so they are now do not like to do that hobby all together. To add, old friends may be dating and they are not dating yet. Maybe, your teenager used to do running or swimming. Now, their running or swimming friends are no longer their friends. So, now your adolescent is stopping being athletic and exercising altogether. This is a normal response to bullying or friend loss. Reducing physical activity leads to depression in teenagers. Therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut for adolescents can help you teenager feel confident trying a new physical activity.
To begin, click the button below to begin DBT for adolescents in East Lyme, Connecticut.
DBT therapy can help your teenager find a sense of security and belonging in the world as well as new, healthy habits for self-care.
Holistic DBT counseling supports self-motivation and creative coping tools. So, your teenager can go for a walk and talk session by the beach or even use music therapy to express their emotions. At Wisdom Within Counseling in East Lyme, Connecticut, we support depressed teenagers in rebuilding self-care tools. Right in holistic counseling, using DBT skills, your teenager’s therapist can encourage your teen to move their body. Walking and talking by the beach in counseling is a form of exercise. And, by going for a walk by the shoreline your teenager can do this more frequently on their own outside of counseling.
Technology addiction and comparisons to others online lead to depression in teens
A lot of times, teenagers with depression or emotional instability have technology addictions too. They are scrolling on their cell phones for hours and hours. Your teenager might really enjoy playing Minecraft or another online game. They send all their free time online. Teens with technology addiction tend to isolate in their rooms and withdraw socially. Comparing themselves to others online when they are depressed is not helpful. Often times, teenagers will compare themselves to others on social media and develop eating disorders. At Wisdom Within Counseling in Southeastern Connecticut, our team specializes in helping adolescents and young adults thrive.
Building confidence through in person relationships for teens
From working with a DBT therapist at Wisdom Within Counseling, your adolescent can learn how to talk to their friends and family about how they feel rather than being addicted to technology. Going online may be easier than making friends in person for your teenager. So, when teenagers feel socially disconnected or even suicidal, they often resort to the easy, online world. Technology addiction can be very socially isolating for adolescents. To add, your teenager might also have grades that are dropping and need help academically because they are focusing all of their free time on online gaming or Minecraft.
To begin, click the button below for a phone consult for holistic, creative, DBT for adolescents in East Lyme, Connecticut.
Creative DBT therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut for adolescents building self-esteem
Wisdom Within Counseling focuses on helping teens feel positive about themselves in session. Your teenager and their therapist can make a stress ball together right in session. As well, your teenager might even decide to make a positive music playlist right in counseling. In counseling, we provide DBT skills that your teenager can use outside of session for self-acceptance. Your teenager can learn to feel confident grounding and soothing themselves when they feel overwhelmed from DBT skills. When anxious, or when over thinking, your teen can use the playlist or stress ball outside of counseling. Overtime, your teenager can use their DBT toolbox to rebuild a positive sense of self as well as positive coping tools.
What is unique about Wisdom Within Counseling in East Lyme, Connecticut?
Is it hard for your adolescent to verbalize what they are feeling? Well, creative, expressive arts can help your teenager feel safe talking. We offer art therapies, acrylic paints, media painting, watercolors, and clay. Sometimes, a teenager who is anxious and might not want to directly talk about how they are feeling. Selective mutism is a speciality of ours at Wisdom Within Counseling in East Lyme, Connecticut. Therefore, our team of DBT specialists help anxious teenagers address and release their emotions in an expressive, holistic ways. Your teenager can paint out how they are feeling or draw out what it feels like to be angry or an outcast.
What are benefits of supporting teenagers with creative, expressive therapies?
Art therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut would be great for your teenager if they struggle to talk about how they feel. As well, art and painting can help your teenager get connected to their mind and body.
At Wisdom Within Counseling, we help teenagers learn how to overcome meltdowns, emotional behaviors, impulsivity, and panic attacks.
If your teenager is suicidal, or suffers with depression, you are in the right place. Our team of adolescent and team specialists use a mixture of DBT skills along with holistic, lifestyle these skills to help teenagers build lifelong strategies for success.
In counseling at Wisdom Within, we incorporate art therapies, yoga therapies, music therapies, and drama therapies to help teenagers enjoy life again.
When your teenager feels relaxed in their body such as from a guided meditation in counseling, they can be more ready to make new friends and take steps towards important goals. At Wisdom Within Counseling in Niantic, Connecticut, we also offer animal therapy. One of our therapist brings in her dog to help teenagers live in the present moment, especially if they are feeling tearful or suicidal.
When your teenager can confidently handle any emotion from jealousy to anger to anxiety, they will be set up for their college years for success.
If your teenager is struggling with an eating disorder, anorexia, binge eating disorder, or bulimia, we work with a team of dietitians and pediatricians to help your team have a healthy relationship with food. In addition, if your teenager is struggling with anxiety or depression, DBT skills are incredibly helpful for the middle school to high school transition, as well as the high school to college transition.
To begin, click the button below to start in DBT for adolescents in East Lyme, Connecticut.
Using DBT therapies and skills, your teenager can have a toolbox of positive coping strategies to take with them into college years and beyond.
Right now, it might be challenging to help your teenager when they feel frozen, are complaining, worried, or having a panic attack. From helping your teenager learn DBT skills, they can pay attention to their body’s signals. Then, your adolescent can learn to practice mind-body skills to feel successful calming themselves down. As well, if your teenager is expressive, creative, or even likes painting or being in nature, our team specializes with these holistic therapies for teenagers.
Creative, holistic therapies provide anxious adolescents with lifelong DBT skills and self-soothing tools
Wisdom Within Counseling in Southeastern Connecticut offers animal therapy groups using a snake, owl, turtle, frog and even a rabbit. Your teenager can go with their creative therapist outside by the beach to walk off anxiety or anger. Wisdom Within Counseling teaches lifestyle coping skills so that your teenager can manage their stress in a healthy way outside of session.
Is your teenager living in Connecticut or Florida?
We offer video and phone counseling to New Fairfield, Newtown, Norwalk, Old Greenwich, Redding, Redding Center, Redding Ridge,Darien, Easton, Fairfield, Georgetown, Bethel, Bridgeport, Brookfield, Cos Cob, Danbury, Monroe, New Canaan, Greenwich, Hawleyville, Ridgefield, Riverside, Sandy Hook, Shelton, Sherman, Southport, Stamford, Stratford, Trumbull, Weston, Westport, and Wilton, Connecticut. As well, we offer phone and video counseling in Florida.
DBT for adolescents in East Lyme, Connecticut
In Southeastern Connecticut, our team of adolescent specialists would love to help your anxious or depressed teenager build confidence and clarity. We also love helping parents during parent sessions build an even healthier and more loving relationship with their emotional teenager. If you are struggling with family conflict or sibling conflict with your teenager, our team of creative therapist would love to help.
