Dialectical Behavioral Therapy can help if you have depression and anxiety, and help you create a beautiful, healthy life worth living! Learn to feel confident, communicate in calm ways, and attract nurturing, positive friendships through DBT therapy in Connecticut.
Depression therapy using DBT therapy skills for confidence
Do you feel afraid and worry about leaving your house?
And, do you struggle to feel socially confident?
Do you find yourself wearing pajamas during the daytime that you wore at night?
Have you lost interest in hobbies and social activities that you once enjoyed?
Are you going to a bug life transition like a breakup, separation, divorce, and moving and everything feels too much to handle alone?
Do you feel like you want to sleep all day?
What is depression therapy and what can it do for my depression?
When you have depression, you may not know how to deal with the stress and chaos. Overall, DBT therapy teaches people with depression skills to improve mood stability and uplift mood. Mostly, depression is a chronic condition, that can come and go. But, when it comes, it can feel heavy, lonely, sad, and overwhelming. Right now, you may have way too much on your plate to deal with alone.
At Wisdom Within Counseling, your holistic therapist provides you skills to take back your amazing, healthy life.
From DBT therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling, you can take back your power and live a healthy life. Depression therapy using DBT therapy skills are more effective than traditional talk therapy alone. At Wisdom Within Counseling in Connecticut, the team of therapists offer lifestyle-based skills. DBT therapy in Connecticut is one of a kind incorporating art, yoga therapy, music, and outdoor walking therapies for healthy self-care routines and better decision-making skills.
The team of DBT therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling help people with depression and anxiety develop social confidence and healthy relationships.
What are interpersonal effectiveness skills in DBT therapy in Connecticut at Wisdom Within Counseling and how can they help my depression?
Interpersonal effectiveness is a formal way to talking about healthy relationships with yourself.
Do you feel like you are the caretaker in all of your relationships, even your romantic one?
Or, do you find yourself resorting to yelling, screaming, or hitting when you get angry?
Is there a pattern of overeating, binge eating, or restrictive food behaviors/starvation followed by a cycle of shame, guilt, and low self-esteem?
Do you find yourself with a romantic partner who continually cheats on you and has affairs behind your back?
At times, you may wonder if you can ever have a healthy, long-term relationship. Well, with DBT therapy in Connecticut, a healthy, loving relationship is possible for you!
If you are depressed, anxious, and looking to attract a healthy, loving, nurturing relationship from self-love, Wisdom Within Counseling specializes in this area of DBT therapy.
When you have depression and low self-esteem, you may inadvertently attract a person who is unhealthy. Maybe, you find yourself in a series of abusive, intense romantic relationships that are unfulfilling. Perhaps, you feel emotionally neglected, like your spouse only cares about work or their career and not your feelings. So, if you wonder why you find yourself with the same, negative, narcissistic person that only wants to spend time with their friends instead of you, contact Wisdom Within Counseling today.
Through DBT therapy, your therapist can teach you skills to bridge and confidently talk about relationship topics like money, sex, and emotional needs.
DBT therapy can help you get strong from within yourself. From DBT therapy in Connecticut, you can learn how to identify narcissistic behaviors and alcoholic behaviors. Then, instead of being a caretaker, you can learn to set a healthy boundary. Setting healthy boundaries can help improve depression and anxiety symptoms.
What is boundary setting and how can it help me with my depression and anxiety?
Furthermore, healthy boundaries can be difficult to implement with people, friends, family, and in-laws who don’t like boundaries. Boundaries are not about manipulation or coerciveness. Here is a boundary setting example comes up in counseling frequently. For instance, let’s say you have a friend texts you and asks to barrow money from you. Now, this is a chance to set a boundary. For one, this friend may never pay you back. And, they may be asking for the hundredth time. Now, you can use your DBT skills to pause, love yourself, and breathe. Next, set a purposeful boundary to show confidence rather than fear or insecurity. Consider all your feelings.
DBT therapy in Connecticut teaches you how to intense feelings respond in a calm, clear way.
For instance, you may get this in a text message from your friend asking for money and immediately think to ignore the person. Maybe, it feels like too much or overwhelming to find the words. This is an example of an unskillful way of not addressing the matter. Many times, you may think that not talking, not replying, and ignoring are helping avoid conflict. But, it is unhealthy to ignore others when flooded with challenging feelings.
So, DBT therapy in Connecticut helps you process your fears, worry, and anger. Then, you can calmly choose what you want to say, thus speaking up confidently.
What is boundary setting all about and how to identify over caretaking?
On the other hand, you may get this in a text message from your friend asking for money and immediately say, “yes.” Another reactive, unskillful, negative behavior would be to immediately say, “yes,” out of over caretaking. Now, over caretaking is when you feel you must or have to do something out of obligation. And, you say, “yes,” because you fear the person asking for money would become angry if you set a boundary and said, “no.” For one, an example of an unskillful, unhealthy response may be, “Yes, I will give you every penny I have. I will do anything to make you happy, [even if it means me not making my payment for my rent this month.]”
Setting boundaries in DBT Therapy: How can I identify over aggression in relationships?
In a third scenario, you receive a text message from a friend asking for money and immediately say, “no.” Another example of an unskillful, negative response when you say, “No,” in a demeaning, rude way. “No! You never worked a day in your life, you should get a job. Stop being a loser. Don’t text me again.” Now, this is not clear, calm, or constructive either. But, this is an example of a disrespectful, angry, and impulsive reaction. Often, behind responses like this are feelings of contempt, frustration, and resentment. On that note, DBT therapy can be a safe place to identify, process, and release anger and resentment. DBT therapy in Connecticut gives you a healthy, calm mental perspective and clear decision-making skills.
What is a healthy way to set a boundary, while saying, “No?” DBT therapy in Connecticut
Lastly, you get a text message from your friend asking for money, and use DBT therapy to react in a clear, confident, and compassionate way. As well, you can set a boundary and decline. A response from learning DBT skills in counseling in Connecticut may include, “Hi, I am sorry to hear you are in a rough place. However, I am unable to give you money at this time. Here is a link to Care and Share of East Lyme who can help with a holiday meal. Wishing you the best.” Now, this response is clear, direct, and all about boundary setting.
From DBT therapy in Connecticut, you can learn to calmly share intense feelings with a friend, family member, in-law, and romantic partner.
And, all the DBT skills you learn from counseling work with friendships and sibling relationships too! Often, anger, fear, betrayal, anxiety, and worry all come out as aggressive anger. If you find anger gets the best of you, start in DBT therapy in Connecticut. To note, learning to set boundaries with unhealthy people can be hard. Every time is a change to practice and you therapist can help support and guide you.
How can DBT therapy in Connecticut help me with anger management skills?
When you have depression and anxiety, anger management skills may be on your mind as well. Whether you have been the victim of a verbally abusive argument, or lose your cool and find yourself yelling, it doesn’t feel good for anyone. Perhaps, as a child, you remember overhearing angry conflicts. From DBT therapy in Connecticut, your counselor teaches you stress management and anger management outlets. For instance, in addition to DBT therapy, you can go for a nature walk outdoors. Walking therapies along the Connecticut shoreline and beaches along with DBT therapy reduce depression and anxiety. As well, you can creatively paint and do art therapy alongside DBT therapy in Connecticut. So, as you learn skills for improving anger management, you will gain a variety of positive coping tools. For some people with anxiety and depression, high conflict fights in relationships are a repeating pattern.
What is trauma-bonding and how does it connect to depression therapy and DBT therapy in Connecticut?
When high conflict fights repeat, this causes a trauma-bonding cycle, which leads to more depression and anxiety symptoms. Feeling unloved in a relationship is a trigger for depression and anxiety in many people. Trauma bonding is a cycle where you feel love for a person so deeply and want to be romantically with them. Maybe, you are the only one hoping for the relationship to get better and stable. However, the person you are within the trauma boding cycle is a narcissist, abusive, and even cheating or having affairs.
How do trauma bonds work?
Every time you bring these concerns up with them, they don’t acknowledge your feelings. Or, they distract and wow you away until you can’t help but fall back in love with them. To note, in a trauma bond, you may find yourself falling in love so hard that you brush away the concerns you once had. You become consumed by feeling in-love again. And, you find yourself ignoring your concerns about cheating and affairs as small matters, to avoid conflict. So, a part of you longs for the person you are in the trauma bond with to finally be content with just you, and to truly love you, and hope they’ll stop cheating. But, deep down, therapy help you realize that your trauma bond is not healthy, and nor does it feel supportive.
Now, how can DBT therapy in Connecticut help you break your trauma bonding cycle and build a healthy relationship in counseling?
In therapy, you can learn you are actually a victim and survivor! From counseling, you can learn skills and positive coping tools to get active, get more sleep, and nourish yourself through food. To note, the abuser in a trauma bond relationship will never be satisfied. Often, the abuser will seek drugs, alcohol, and sex outside of any relationship they find themselves in. DBT therapy in Connecticut can give you a toolbox of emotional confidence skills. In a trauma bond, the abuser asserts power and control all romantic relationships, even in affair relationships.
What is it about DBT therapy in Connecticut that helps people overcome abusive relationships?
If you find yourself in a trauma bonding cycle in your relationship, working with a holistic marriage and family therapist can help you speak up. It is common to feels like you are walking on eggshells before starting counseling. Right now, you might be afraid to bring up certain conversation topics. Or, like certain topics like sex or money are off limits because they start high conflict fights. Therapy, both individual and couples therapy, helps you build a strong, secure, meaningful romantic relationship. So, with DBT therapy in Connecticut, you can learn how to communicate your feelings in a calm way. Working with a DBT therapist in Connecticut will help your whole family thrive.
How can DBT therapy in Connecticut help my marriage and my relationship improve?
DBT therapy in Connecticut begins by helping all people in the relationship slow down. When there is a fight beginning, the start is the key part. Couples therapy sessions allow all people in relationship counseling to take ownership for their parts. Marriage counseling offers insight, compassion, empathy, and self-awareness. In high conflict fights, you feel a thousand, challenging emotions, all very intensely. DBT skills help you identify each feeling to then clearly, calmly communicate it. For starters, you may feel fear, worry, anger, betrayal, disgust, shame, guilt, love, joy, excitement, frustration, and jealousy all in one moment! Lastly, working with a DBT therapist in Connecticut can give you lifelong coping tools for meaningful relationships.
Why work with a DBT therapist for marriage counseling in Connecticut?
In couples therapy, your DBT therapist will help you think back to when the fight began. From marriage therapy, you can have a safe place to start having difficult, needed conversations, may ones that you have avoided for ten years. These marriage counseling conversations with your DBT therapist will pave the way for clarity and meaningful connection. The marriage and family therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling in Connecticut help high conflict couples build a loving, calm marriage. What is unique is that the creative marriage and family therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling layer DBT alongside talking, art, yoga, music, and walking therapies in Connecticut. Meeting weekly with a holistic DBT therapist can help you build a positive, confident sense of self in mind, body, and spirit.
Why don’t we get taught social emotional skills as children?
Often, it can be hard to break a generational cycle of trauma bonding, conflict, and anger, if you grew up in a family where you saw it. If your parent(s) disrespected each other in high conflict fights, it may be learned. As a child, you saw these interactions as “normal.” However, there is a part of you who sees friends and other people relating to each other in different, calmer, loving ways. And, you are hopeful this is possible for you. Well, yes, it is!
You deserve to have a loving, secure, relationship.
And, it can take the help of a professional therapist, someone outside your family to help you change your family pattern for the better. In DBT therapy in Connecticut, you can build a life of balance between work and play. Overall, DBT therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling in East Lyme, Connecticut can help you create a healthy relationship with your mind, body, and spirit. From there, you can attract a nurturing partner, who supports you emotionally and physically.
About Wisdom Within Counseling and working with a DBT therapist
At Wisdom Within Counseling in Connecticut, our team of family and marriage therapists teach life skills for healthy relationships. Sometimes, relationships can be hurtful and intense. But, relationship can also be joyful, fun, and playful. Whether you are looking to attract a healthy relationship or needing clarity on your current romantic relationship, Wisdom Within Counseling is experienced in these relational areas. It can be really hard to talk about what is under anger. And, it can be challenging to date or live with a partner who has anger issues.
Let the team of therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling help your marriage and family thrive.
So, next time you feel flooded with anger, anxiety, impulsivity, and depression, your therapist can teach you DBT toolbox of positive coping skills to use. At Wisdom Within Counseling, you can pick from a mix of creative art, yoga, music, and walking therapies. Now, while working with a DBT therapist, you can do in-person counseling or video counseling. In addition, Wisdom Within Counseling offers distance video counseling, telehealth, phone sessions, and texting counseling. In Niantic, Connecticut, the marriage and family therapists offer a playful, creative path to meaningful relationships! Work with a creative, holistic, playful DBT therapist in Connecticut today.
