Signs your teenager needs DBT therapy for young adults in Fairfield, Connecticut at Wisdom Within Counseling
To begin, depression often starts between the ages of 15 and 35 years old. For many teenagers, depression can frequently run in families. Many times, teen depression and self-harm behaviors may be more common among adolescents who have family members with depression.
What are signs of needing teen depression therapy?
Weight or appetite changes are red flags. Has your teenager recently gained of lost over 10 lbs? Often, teenagers struggle with body image issues and may start skipping meals. As well, teenagers with depression may hoard food and show fear and anxiety around food. Any rapid changes in weight can be a sign of anorexia, bulimia, binge eating, or an eating disorder. Furthermore, your child’s pediatrician may notice adolescent depression due to weight changes. Self-criticism about body shape and size are signs of depression in adolescents.
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Can moodiness and irritably be a sign my teenager has depression and could benefit from DBT counseling?
Essentially, if your teenager has any extreme moodiness, yelling, or excessive anger, Wisdom Within Counseling can help. The team of creative therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling help teens overcome depression symptoms like unexpected weeping, anger, anxiety, and and high levels of irritability. Lastly, it is better to get your adolescent or teenager in counseling sooner than later. Wisdom Within Counseling specializes with depressed adolescents and teens who may also self-harm and be cutting.
While every teenager and young adult experiences different depression symptoms, here are a few to look out for
Has your teenager has a change in emotions, feels down, or has a sad demeanor? Did you teen lose interest in hobbies? Has there been an increase or decrease in their sleeping pattern and habits? Now, are they sleeping until 2pm when before they naturally woke up at 10am? As well, is your young adult struggling with low energy and low motivation? Do you see them socially withdrawing or having social anxiety? Any changes in appetite or weight loss or gain?
Your teen may have depression if they are very anxious and paranoid. Additionally, when your teenager can’t control their moods, DBT therapy in Fairfield, Connecticut can help. DBT therapy helps teenager who have extreme changes in moods learn positive coping tools. As well, if your teenager is irritable or sad, DBT therapy supports strategies for emotional release. Lastly, does it feel like your teen or young adult doesn’t have control over their emotions? Or, that their emotions have power over them?
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Why try DBT in adolescent and teen therapy in Fairfield, Connecticut?
Often, teenagers do not know they are depressed and struggling. They will try to remedy their situation the best they know how. In many cases, this means finding negative, impulsive ways to cope. Self-harm, skin picking, cutting, and skin burning are common forms of self-injury. At Wisdom Within Counseling, we specialize in helping teenagers stop cutting and self-injurious behavior. Additionally, Wisdom Within Counseling offers DBT therapies alongside art therapies, yoga therapies, music therapies, and walk and talk therapies by the beach. These holistic, creative DBT therapies help teenagers build self-love and acceptance.
How can DBT therapy help teenagers with low self-esteem and poor grades?
Now, teenagers and young adults with depression symptoms may not want to goto school. They may say they are sick in the morning before the school day. Or, your depressed teenager or young adult may be having a panic attack before school. Furthermore, teenagers with depression have poor concentration, which impacts social and academic functioning. Teenagers with depression may have low self-esteem for a number of reasons. For one, they may have poor grades and feel overwhelmed trying to do school work.
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What are the impacts of poor grades and depression?
With depression, a teenager may quickly fall behind in school. Additionally, poor academic functioning can lead to poor self-image and lack of confidence. Without DBT therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling in Fairfield, Connecticut, your teen may end up repeating grades. Teenagers with depression benefit from having a therapist to talk about school, peer drama, and dating.
At times, the stress of social relationships, breakups, and social skills can make a teen not want to goto school. DBT therapy and creative teen counseling can help adolescents gain academic confidence. Lack of friends, going through a breakup, and poor grades can compound making teen depression worse. Without DBT counseling, teenagers may resort to self-harm and even suicidal thinking. There are two types of self-harm, suicidal self-injury and non-suicidal self-injury.
Self-Harm and Suicidal Teen Therapy
On that note, suicide is a major cause of death among adolescents and it is preventable. To add, depressed young adults aged 13 to 29 are at risk for suicidal thinking and suicide. Studies show that most teenager who attempt suicide or think about suicide struggle with depression. Essentially, the most at risk population for suicide and suicidal thinking are teenagers. Now, this is because adolescents and young adults are already depressed and may not ask for help directly.
What causes depressed teenagers and young adults to be at risk for suicide and suicidal thinking?
Also, young adults who are suicidal may easily be able to hide their symptoms from family, parents, teachers, and friends. So, identifying teen depression and understanding if your young adult is at risk is one way to prevent suicide. Also, don’t wait to get help or think your teenager will “get over” depression on their own. If you young adult is experiencing social withdrawal, decreased school performance, changes in eating habits, sleeping, and starting to self-harm or cut, reach out for help today.
Wisdom Within Counseling loves helping teenagers and young adults who struggle with depression, self-harm, cutting, and suicidal thinking. The team of DBT counselors at Wisdom Within Counseling helps depressed young adults create a life worth living and find things they enjoy doing again. Lastly, not all depressed teenagers are forthcoming about how low they feel. Look for red flag behaviors and reach out for DBT therapy right away.
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How do we help teenagers build a self-care kit for self-acceptance?
At Wisdom Within Counseling, our team of therapists help adolescents and young adults learn self-soothing DBT skills. Marsha Linehan created DBT counseling skills to help adolescents and adults feel confident no matter what intense feeling they are experiencing. On that note, self-soothing skills help teenagers manage depression through their entire lives. Also, self-soothing skills in DBT therapy help manage distress. SO, when your teenager feels depression, angry, or anxiety, they have a toolbox of skills to use. When your teenager is in emotional distress, they can learn to comfort and nurture themselves.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) in Fairfield, CT supports self-soothing skills over self-harm and cutting
Self-soothing because an alternative to self-harm and cutting. Next time your teenager feels overwhelming emotions, they can use their self-soothe skill to cope in a healthy way. Many times, young adults don not learn how to cope with emotional distress in school. So, DBT therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling in Fairfield, CT supports young adults.
What is one self-soothing skill you can try right now to get a feel for DBT therapy in Fairfield, Connecticut?
Well, you can learn to use your five sense to ground and center your mind. Often, emotions can get the best of us. Things outside our control can lead to anger and frustration. So, using your five senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch can be great ways to slow down. Finding and creating a state of relaxation and peace is possible with DBT therapies at Wisdom Within Counseling. For one, you can try using your eyes to feel calmer and live in the present moment.
How can you and your teenager use your sense of sight in DBT therapy to to feel calmer?
Wherever you are, see if you can go outside in nature. In nature, you can try to notice if there are birds, the colors of the trees, and the clouds in the sky. If you are not able to venture in nature, look around. Name five colors that you see. You can even find funny memes or pictures on the internet that are soothing. As well, you can save these beautiful images on your phone or computer from the internet and look at them anytime you feel anxiety or anger.
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How can Fairfield, Connecticut DBT therapy help teens and young adults with anxiety?
So, using your eyes is just one part of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). From working with a counselor, your young adult can learn all about DBT. DBT therapy in Fairfield, Connecticut is a specialized, mindfulness therapy that helps children, adolescents, adults, and families learn skills. Essentially, DBT therapists in Fairfield, CT believe that DBT skills help teens cope more effectively. From having a toolbox of positive coping skills, teenagers can regulate their behaviors and emotions better. This way, your young adult can be prepared for college life and independent living.
What areas can creative, holistic DBT therapy in Fairfield, CT help with?
If your teenager or young adult with depression struggles with impulsive behaviors, DBT therapy can help them thrive.
Also, DBT therapy helps teenagers deal with emotional ups and downs. From anxiety, to anger, to loss, your teenager can have healthy outlets. At Wisdom Within Counseling in Fairfield, CT, your young adult can learn about themselves. They can gain self-awareness to understand the root of their eating disorder, self-harm or addiction. If your teenager struggles with suicide and suicidal thinking, DBT can help them create a life worth living. Lastly, if your teenager has Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), they may negatively cope with PTSD symptoms through high risk behaviors. DBT therapy for young adults has been shown to help improve family conflict, friendships, and social relationships.
What are coping skills in DBT therapy for young adults in Fairfield, Connecticut?
Now, you may want to know specific examples of DBT skills that we offer at Wisdom Within Counseling. At Wisdom Within Counseling, we teach adolescents and young adults with depression and self-harm self-love skills. Teens can learn how to ask for what they want and need in positive ways. They can learn positive communication and relationship skills. In addition, in DBT therapy for teens at Wisdom Within Counseling, self-respect is a big part. Teenagers and young adults can learn how to resolve conflicts with peers and family. Lastly, teenagers can learn alternatives to self-harm, cutting, and impulsive behaviors through DBT and art, yoga, music and creative therapies.
How does the team at Wisdom Within Counseling teach teenagers the DBT skill of Wise Mind?
First, wise mind is a term in DBT therapy to help teenagers and young adults gain perspective. It is like an owl high above looking down and seeing the big picture. Many times, teenagers are stuck right in an intense, challenging emotions and need help gaining perspective. When a teenager feels angry, they are totally consumed by anger. So, the DBT therapy skill fo wise mind supports emotional confidence.
In DBT therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling, teenagers can learn to observe and watch their thoughts before reacting.
Additionally, young adults can do grounding skills to stay in the present moment. Often, teenager may feel anxiety and anticipation about the future, or anger or regret about the past. So, the wise mind DBT skill supports letting go of self-judgments and simply observing themselves. At Wisdom Within Counseling in Fairfield, Connecticut, we are passionate about helping teenagers develop emotional preparation through DBT.
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Why is DBT therapy for young adults in Fairfield, Connecticut so unique?
More over, DBT is different from other therapies. Instead CBT has a focus on changing thoughts and emotions. On the other hand, DBT therapy incorporates mindfulness, yoga, grounding skills, and art therapies. Teenagers can learn to use art, painting, yoga, breathing skills, music therapies, and drama therapies instead of self-harming. At Wisdom Within Counseling, DBT therapy in Fairfield, CT is empowering. it can help adolescents and teenagers know what to do when they have a troublesome, challenging feeling. And, creative, DBT therapy provides young adults with a toolkit for stopping self-harm and cutting.
How does DBT therapy for young adults in Fairfield, Connecticut help with self-harm behaviors?
Did you know that self-harm and self-injurious behaviors impact many teenagers and young adults. Studies show that nearly 25% of adolescents engage in cutting and self-harming behaviors. Also, adolescents and young adults begin self-harming and cutting because they want to get rid of intense feelings. Essentially, self-harm, suicidal thinking, and cutting are signs your teenager needs positive coping skills. Also, some teenagers are suicidal and some teenagers take part in non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI). Now, non-suicidal self-injury is not to die, but to relieve intense emotions. To add, teenager may partake in non-suicidal self-injury to cause themselves pain. Cutting and self-harm is not always due to feeling suicidal, but it can be.
At Wisdom Within Counseling, we help teenagers learn to love themselves through creative DBT therapy, art, paining, yoga, meditation, and tie dye.
Therefore, young adults need DBT therapy to find ways to stop self-harming. Essentially, cutting and the physical pain masks the emotional pain they are in. Over time, from DBT therapy, your teenager can learn to cope with uncomfortable, distressing emotions in healthy ways.
In what ways can yoga therapy be a part of DBT therapy for young adults in Fairfield, Connecticut?
Essentially, adolescents and young adults who cut themselves, self-harm or self-injure have low distress tolerance skills. This mean that teenagers don’t have the tools to deal with negative emotions. Yoga therapies alongside DBT therapy in Fairfield, Connecticut helps teens learn to positively cope with negative experiences. Adolescents need help regulating their emotions. When teenagers do not have emotional coping tools, they take part in self-harm and other maladaptive strategies. To add, teenagers and young adults with depression may also be overeating, restricting calories, over exercising, or being promiscuous.
So, yoga therapy and DBT therapy can help young adults learn to confidently tolerate distress.
Hatha yoga encourages young adults to implement present-moment thinking and self-awareness. Through yoga therapy and meditation, young adults with depression can become less reactive. When your teenager feels a sense of psychological discomfort, they can have yoga therapy and DBT skills as potential strategies. Distress tolerance increases from DBT therapy and yoga therapy interventions. Also, art therapies, drama therapies, music therapies, and outdoor walking therapies improve distress tolerance skills. At Wisdom Within Counseling in Fairfield, Connecticut, your adolescent can do yoga therapy, art therapy, music therapy, and nature therapies.
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Yoga therapy and DBT therapy in Fairfield, Connecticut
DBT therapy for young adults in Fairfield, Connecticut incorporates yogic practices. Yoga therapy enhances muscular strength and flexibility in your teen’s body. Also, yoga therapy can promote and improve breathing and cardiovascular health. Yoga therapy for teenagers promotes healing after depression, PTSD, and addiction. In general, doing yoga in therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling gives your adolescent tools to reduce stress and manage anxiety. If your teenager wants alternatives to talk counseling, yoga therapy can help reduce depression and improve sleep patterns. Alongside DBT therapies at Wisdom Within Counseling, yoga and meditation can improve your teenager’s overall well-being.
How can DBT therapy for young adults in Fairfield, Connecticut help non-binary teens gain confidence?
At times, your adolescent may develop depression because of their gender expression, sexuality, or gender identity. To add, adolescents are always wanting to feel belonging and acceptance. If your young adult doesn’t feel acceptance at home or school, they will feel depressed. The risk of suicide drastically increases when an LGBTQIA+ or non-binary teenager faces rejection at home.
DBT therapy for young adults in Fairfield, Connecticut is LGBTQIA+ affirming
Plus, teenagers with gender dysphoria are at a high risk for social anxiety disorder. Friends may not use their preferred pronouns or may misgender them all together. Fears of rejection create anxiety and depression in non-binary and LGBTQIA+ teens. On that note, DBT therapy is an effective treatment of social anxiety disorder in non-binary teenagers.
Why do we offer creative art and painting in DBT therapy for young adults in Fairfield, Connecticut?
Art therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling helps teenagers and young adults develop emotional confidence. Additionally, art therapy supports the important mindfulness skills in DBT. And, art therapies provide coping skills to adolescents with depression, cutting, and self-harm behaviors. Coping skills through art therapies help teenagers identify emotions, learn grounding skills, and develop self-regulation. From art therapy, young adults can let go of maladaptive behaviors like self-harm. Painting, art, yoga, and meditation are part of DBT therapy for young adults in Fairfield, Connecticut.
