What are reasons to start in DBT therapy in East Haddam, Connecticut?
If your teenager is impulsive, DBT therapy in East Haddam, Connecticut will be helpful. Maybe, your adolescent is overwhelmed, and doesn’t have positive ways to cope. Your teenager may be depressed, not wanting to leave home, and stay in their room. As well, you may have noticed that your adolescent never goes out with friends anymore. Your adolescent is more tearful, and emotional more than usual. Their self-harming and cutting behavior are concerning.
Not wanting to goto school anymore is a sign to start in DBT therapy in Southeastern Connecticut.
Now, your adolescent refuses to goto school. They no longer are getting the good grades they once easily achieved. As well, they just sleep and nap all day. Essentially, your adolescent is no longer fun-loving, or enjoying life. Sometimes, your teen may have a borderline personality disorder diagnosis or clinical depression. Pediatricians may refer a teenager to receive DBT therapy when there are self-harm behaviors. Any signs of low motivation, low self-worth, and body image issues are reasons to start in DBT therapy immediately. These issues don’t go away on their own, and self-harm always gets worse without therapy. And, your adolescent may have negative beliefs about themselves from being bullied. Your adolescent may believe the things bullies have said to them. Therapy helps rebuild self-care tools, self-worth, and self-esteem.
Any signs of self-harm, cutting, or self-injury are reasons to get your adolescent into DBT therapy.
Additionally, if your adolescent has been cutting, self-injuring, and harming themselves, getting them into therapy sooner than later is essential. If your adolescent is wearing long sleeves in summer, they could be self-harming or injuring themselves. As well, you may notice cuts, scrapes, or scars on your adolescent’s arms, legs, or belly. Each person who self-harms picks a different part of their body. And, you may not realize your teenager is actually cutting until you see their arms. Teens are very good at concealing self-harm and cutting. You may notice sharps, knives, or razor blames missing. A kitchen knife is gone. For instance, some adolescents will self-harm with their own finger nails, mechanical pencils, razors or broken glass. Your teenager’s therapist can help you know how to make your home safer to prevent self-harm. Removing all sharps from your home is a good first step for making your home safer.
DBT therapy in East Haddam, Connecticut at Wisdom Within can help your adolescent develop positive self-talk.
Also, art therapies, yoga therapies, and walking therapies support lifelong self-love tools. Your adolescent may not realize their own self-worth. And, if it feels like you have a conflictual relationship with your teen, counseling can improve parent-child relationships. There may be power struggles and conflicts currently in your family. In many ways, adolescents may try to deal with anger, frustration, or loss by self-harming. There may be pressures with school, drama with friends, or family changes like divorce. Also, self-harming teenagers may be struggling to feel LGBTQIA+ acceptance by friends and family. Queer teens are often coming out, questioning their sexual orientation, and gender fluid. Your teen may fear rejection for being transgender, bi-gender, gay or bisexual and be self-harm as a result.
How can DBT therapy in East Haddam, Connecticut help reduce self-harm and cutting?
DBT therapy in East Haddam, Connecticut at Wisdom Within Counseling can help reduce self-harm behaviors. For instance, DBT skills helps teenagers learn to be effective communicators. Right now, your teenager may yell, have an attitude, or be angry. Instead, your teenager can gain inner strength and assertive communication skills.
In what ways can communication skills be a part of DBT therapy in East Haddam, Connecticut?
At the start of DBT therapy, your adolescent can understand their own emotions and needs. From DBT therapy, your adolescent or middle schooler can learn to verbally ask for help. Your teenager can identify their emotional needs with peers and family. Needs may be different for each type of relationship. Plus, your teenager can learn to set goals to ask for help when necessary. Sometimes, teenagers have a negative belief that no one understands their needs. So, DBT therapy can help your adolescent calmly share what they want and need. Next time your middle schooler or young adult feels an urge to self-harm, they can ask for help from you.
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What are examples of DBT therapy skills?
To add, there are many DBT therapy skills that can help self-harming and impulsive teenagers and young adults.
Adolescents can learn one DBT skill each session to cope in a healthy way. For instance, teenagers can use DBT therapies to focus on their strengths, resilience, and resources. Often, teenagers focus on what isn’t going well and get on the bad side mentally. Unfortunately, teenagers tend to work themselves up when thinking about all the negative thoughts.
Learning to find the positive thoughts in the challenges of life help teenager stop self-harming
So, your adolescent’s DBT therapist can help your teenager see the hidden opportunity in their problems. As well, teenagers can learn skills to manage an emotional crisis.
What are triggers for self-harm?
Often, when plans change, impulsive, depressed teenagers will self-harm. Or, when a teenager with depression feels overwhelmed, they may self-harm. Urges to cut can be from any distressing emotion or chaotic life experience. Experiencing bullying, feeling left out, or feeling embarrassment can lead to self-harm. Overall, DBT therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling support resilience and acceptance tools. Learning to accept others, while changing what is within control takes time. The help of an adolescent therapist can support self-acceptance tools.
So, DBT therapy for adolescents can help them deal with difficult situations.
The team at Wisdom Within Counseling in East Haddam, Connecticut can help your adolescent overcome negative emotions.
Another DBT skill that supports teenagers is developing self-awareness
For many teenagers, reacting to emotions is common. Self-awareness helps teenagers have a sense of confidence.
Inner peace and confidence helps teenagers make positive decisions about loving themselves. Feeling are so intense for teens who self-harm. Anxiety leads to the inability to calm down and self-regulate. Furthermore, teenagers feel pulled by peer pressure and the drama of peers.
How does DBT therapy in East Haddam, Connecticut help teenagers stop self-harming?
In order to manage anxiety, depression, and anger, teenagers can use DBT skills.
At Wisdom Within Counseling, DBT therapies are one of our specialities. As well, in combination with DBT therapy, art therapies, yoga therapies, music therapies, and drama therapies are available. Creative expressive arts at Wisdom Within Counseling help adolescents stop cutting and self-injuring.
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How can interpersonal effectiveness skills help with improving friendships?
Sometimes, teenagers with depression symptoms will be fake to try to make friends. Your teenager may change a part of them selves to fit in to a certain friend group. This ends up creating more low self-esteem through wanting to below. As well, being phony and fake only leads to disconnections with others. Teenagers can learn to connect with friends in a positive way. Instead, DBT counseling helps teenager connect to themselves. Rather than being phony or fake, your teenager can let go of the need to be liked. At Wisdom Within Counseling, DBT therapy in East Haddam, Connecticut helps adolescents create positive friendships.
Your teenager can learn to love their real self.
DBT therapy can help your teenager make genuine social interactions rather than being someone they feel they should be. Additionally, teenagers can learn through counseling that being themselves in good enough. Furthermore, adolescents can use DBT skills to have a positive foundation for relationships. The team of therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling can help your teenager learn to make genuine connections. Teenagers often feel they are less than their peers, or are always striving to be better. So, DBT counseling helps adolescents who self-harm learn to love and accept themselves.
What are distress tolerance skills in DBT therapy in East Haddam, Connecticut?
In DBT therapy in East Haddam, Connecticut at Wisdom Within Counseling, can help with distress tolerance. Distress tolerance means learning to tolerate uncomfortable emotions like anger, sadness, and jealousy. Therefore, a distress tolerance skill may include taking a walk or drinking water. As well, a distress tolerance skill can help with overcoming guilt after making a mistake. Distress tolerance skills in DBT therapy support inner peace. Self-care skills like showering, brushing teeth, and regular meals promote distress tolerance. In DBT therapy in East Haddam, Connecticut, your adolescent can learn to set boundaries.
At Wisdom Within Counseling, your adolescent can have a safe space to talk about intense emotions.
Your impulsive, depressed adolescent can use art, painting, music therapies, and walk and talk therapies by the beach for positive coping tools.
Creative painting offers a language beyond words. As well, going for a walk by the beach can lower anxiety and be a lifelong coping skill. Your teenager can learn to love and accept themselves. Yoga therapies, meditation, and mindfulness skills support inner peace. Essentially, creative DBT therapy helps teenagers learn to regulate their emotions. Additionally, your adolescent or young adult can grow a relationship with their mind, body and spirit. Counseling using creative DBT therapies can help your teenager live a more balanced life.
How does the Wisdom Within Counseling team incorporate art, yoga therapies, creative painting, and music therapies?
Creative art can be a language beyond just talking. So, when your teenager doesn’t want to talk traditionally, they can paint or go for a walk. As well, learning to go for a walk when anxious promotes lifelong coping tools. Adolescents and teenager can learn to make a playlist of positive songs for when they feel angry.
Instead of impulsive behaviors like cutting or self-harming, adolescents can use a self-soothe kit. In counseling, your adolescent can physically make a kit to comfort themselves. Self-harm is an effort to numb out emotional pain. So, next time emotional pain arises, your adolescent can use their self-soothe kit. The self-harm crisis line can be a part of a self-soothe kit. If you teen is self-harming, they can call the crisis line to talk to a professional.
What goes into a self-soothe kit to stop self-harming behaviors for depressed adolescents in DBT counseling?
In a self-soothe kit may be peppermints, which help with present moment thinking. Smelling mints can help to reduce self-harm through sensory mindfulness. Additionally, a self-soothe kit may include four phone numbers to call or text. Furthermore, your adolescent may paint the outside of their self-soothe kit. There my be clay, play dough, or a squishy object to relieve anxiety.
Essentially, your adolescent learns to self-soothe over hurting themselves when in distress. A photo of a favorite musician for inspiration can be a part of a self-soothe kit. Additionally, adolescents can use their five sense to feel present and stop self-harm. Adolescents can work with a therapist to calm their senses when overstimulated. At Wisdom Within Counseling, a self-soothe kit is a healthy alternative to impulsive, self-harming and cutting.
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Yoga therapy as a part of DBT therapy in East Haddam, Connecticut
Deep relaxation practices like yoga nidra meditation can compare to 5 hours of sleep, in some cases. Further, deep relaxation techniques can heal trauma and PTSD. As well, meditation and yoga therapy support your teenager in creating a life worth living. Yoga therapy and meditation help your teenager feel joy about waking up in the morning. Wisdom Within Counseling can help your teenager using creative, holistic yoga therapy. Yoga therapy and DBT therapy teaches lifelong, positive coping skills.
