Now, is your teenager struggling with depression, anxiety, self-harming behavior? Essex, Connecticut DBT therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling can help with emotional confidence.
As well, is your adolescent or teenager moody, angry, upset, emotional, sensitive, or showing sings of distress? Art therapies, yoga therapies, and walking therapies by the beach build self-esteem.
Does your young adult have gender questioning feelings or is non-binary? Well, LGBTQIA+ counseling supports teens who are bisexual, coming out, or non-binary.
Additionally, would you like to give your teenager positive coping tools for lifelong mental wellness? Teenagers learn to love themselves and cope with anxiety, anger, and sadness in healthier ways than self-harm.
To begin, click the button below to book your phone consult for Essex, Connecticut DBT therapy and positive coping tools.
Essex, Connecticut DBT therapy is available at Wisdom Within Counseling.
Frequently, teenagers keep everything suck inside. So, big emotions like anger, anxiety and sadness never have outlets. When all that stress is trapped, adolescents and young adults with depression and anxiety may start hurting themselves. Therefore, your teenager’s therapist can be a safe person outside of school and home life. As well, self-harm behaviors may be apparent because your teenager is wearing long sleeves. In addition, your young adult may be more angry, upset, or frustrated than typical. As well, when you goto talk to them, they get quiet, or walk away. As a parent, realizing that your teenager is cutting themselves and self-harming can be intense. Our team at Wisdom Within Counseling specializes with teen self-harm behaviors in Connecticut.
Why does self-harm and cutting occur?
To begin, self-harm often occurs because the teenager doesn’t have positive coping tools. Jealousy, overwhelm, worry, or anger all feel too much. Cutting takes away the emotional pain of the moment. Essentially, a teenager’s brain is growing and growing. Every day, they are feeling bigger, and bigger emotions.
For some teenagers, learning to cope with school, peer pressures, and friendship issues is overwhelming.
In a way, self-harming teenagers are trying to cope the best they can. To add, Essex, Connecticut DBT therapy supports learning better, more healing coping tools. Therefore, DBT therapy supports depression with positive coping tools. Instead of cutting, your teenager can overcome anxiety through walking and talking, art, yoga, and DBT therapies. Creative expression of intense emotions can help reduce self injury and self harm.
To begin, click the button below to book your phone consult for Essex, Connecticut DBT therapy and positive ways to cope for your teen.
What are triggers to self harm?
Sometimes, self-harm behaviors have emotional tiggers. For instance, an alcoholic goes to the bar when something bad happens. In the same way, when your teenager experiences a difficult emotion, they feel the urge to self-harm. Sometimes, it is a breakup, heart break, or being left out that triggers self-harm. For instance, any major life change like moving or changing schools can trigger self-harm. Also, having parents who are in conflict or yelling a lot can lead to self-harm. Losing a relative, getting into a peer conflict, or having friendship issues are major triggers for self-harm. To add, teenagers who have a history of sexual, emotional, or physical abuse may take part in self-harm behaviors.
Self-har, self-injury, and cutting can be socially contagious among teenagers
Often, teenagers may begin to self-harm and cut because they see other teenagers at school trying it. Not knowing what else to do to manage anxiety or depression, teens try self-harming. On that note, self-harm and cutting can get competitive between peers. So, when your teenager has a therapist, they can have a place to making healthier choices. Teenagers are experimenting with what can relieve their intense, emotional pain. Self-soothing strategies help teenagers cope in a creative, resilient, holistic, self-loving manor. Lastly, at Wisdom Within Counseling, we teach teenagers how to cope with life’s unpleasant moments in a calm way.
Impulsive behaviors and Essex, Connecticut DBT therapy
To note, teenagers who self harm or injure themselves may also be dealing with drug or alcohol problems. Overall, self-harm can also mean that your teenager is making poor decisions. Maybe, their grades are dropping or they are no longer trying hard in school.
Teens to self-harm may also be making other poor, impulsive decisions.
Impulsive behaviors may pertain to dating or reckless sex. Additionally, your teenager may be stealing, smoking pot, or skipping classes. They may now be hanging with peers of a bad influence. As well, teenagers may have eating disorders or weight struggles and benefit from DBT therapy. Wisdom Within Counseling supports adolescents and teenagers in learning alternatives to cutting.
Teenagers can learn more about distress tolerance skills through yoga, mediation, mindfulness, and creative therapies.
DBT therapy is skill-based and we combine it alongside painting, art, yoga, and walking therapies by the beach.
At Wisdom Within Counseling, our team of therapists combine holistic arts with DBT therapies. On that note, our team of counselors find that combining DBT therapy in Southeastern Connecticut along with holistic and creative therapies is key. Sometimes, teenagers will need extra help talking it out.
So, painting or using clay can lower anxiety in counseling. As well, the use of creative, alternative therapies help teenagers cope with anger, loss, and depression using positive outlets. From counseling, self-harming teenagers can learn to deal with trauma and anxiety in effective ways.
Learning skills each session, teenagers with depression can learn alternatives to self harming or self injuring.
As well, teenagers who have other impulsive behaviors like drug or alcohol use can develop a healthier sense of self. Therefore, Wisdom Within Counseling offers art, painting, yoga, music, and creative therapies. Painting, using clay, and being creative improve mental health. Plus, art and creative therapies can help teenagers open up. Our team at Wisdom Within Counseling support teenagers in learning lifelong coping tools.
Wisdom Within Counseling helps teenagers build self-esteem tools through Essex, Connecticut DBT therapy.
From learning how to handle emotions in a positive way, teenagers gain stress management techniques.
More so, mindfulness modules, interpersonal effectiveness skills, and lifelong relationship skills are all part of DBT. That way, your teenager with anxiety and depression can learn to reconnect to their mind, body, and spirit.
To begin, click the button below to book your phone consult for Essex, Connecticut DBT therapy and emotional confidence.
So, in combination with DBT therapy, holistic therapies support inner peace and balance.
Therefore, through painting or going for a walk outside, teenager who self-harm can gain more balance in their life. Coping tools help reduce self harm and other impulsive behaviors. Essex, Connecticut DBT therapy teaches mindfulness skills for teenager to gain self-awareness.
How can Essex, Connecticut DBT therapy support self-harming or self-injuring teens?
Dialectical behavioral therapy is exceptionally helpful for those who struggle with regulating distressing emotions.
As well, self-harm, cutting, and self-injury means your teenager has distressing emotions.
For instance, if you’re a teenager gets frustrated very quickly, our team would love to help. Maybe, your teenager also needs to expand their friend group, or make healthier friends. Therefore, the team of therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling can support healthy boundaries with friends and social skills. Emotional confidence tools come from Essex, Connecticut DBT therapy.
LGBTQIA+ queer, bisexual, and transgender teenagers
Essex, Connecticut DBT therapy can help when teenagers are self-harming due to the coming out process. At times, teenagers with depression and self-harm may feel shame, guilt, or frustration in the coming out process. To note, shame and guilt develops from having unaccepting parents or family members. One parent may not be accepting, or outright be rejecting of your teen’s gay sexual orientation.
At Wisdom Within Counseling, we specialize in LGBTQIA+ teen counseling and DBT therapies.
There may be a variety of complex emotional issues underneath self-harm behaviors. Overall, our team or counselors in Southeastern Connecticut can help your teenager develop self-compassion. LGBTQIA+ teen counseling helps teens love and accept themselves. Parents and family members can learn from counseling how to be LGBTQIA+ affirming, accepting and gain LGBTQIA+ education.
What is the connection between LGBTQIA+ counseling and stopping self-harm?
Furthermore, family conflicts can arise when parents and teenagers share different political views. To note, these conflicts between parents and teens can trigger self-harm behaviors. As well, teenagers who are feeling rejection from family and parents are more at risk for suicide. If your adolescent feels any anger, criticism, or put downs, they may cut or harm themselves. Therefore, the goal from therapy is to reduce family conflict. Another goal of self-harm counseling could be creating safety around LGBTQIA+ expression at home. From these changes, self-harm and cutting behaviors may reduce. Teens who self-injure need to know they are loved no matter their sexual orientation.
If your adolescent has a hard time feeling grounded, Essex, Connecticut DBT therapy can help.
In general, no matter the trigger, holistic DBT therapy can help teens love themselves. The pressures for today’s teenagers are monumental. To note, holistic therapies give teenagers who self-harm alternatives to self-harm. From learning about self-care, how to be mindful, and positive coping tools, teens stop cutting themselves. Additionally, creative therapies can be a unique and holistic way to process intense feelings. To add, adolescents and young adults who self-harm and self-injure can replace negative coping tools with holistic ones. Adolescents can learn healthier coping strategies for self-love and acceptance. Therefore, the team of therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling help teenagers on video or in person.
At Wisdom Within Counseling we help teenagers regulate their emotions and feel calm dealing with anxiety and anger.
What will happen without Essex, Connecticut DBT therapy?
Self harm does not go away on its own. Instead, it often gets worse and suicidal thinking increases. Teenagers may end up in the hospital due to depression and self-harm. So, getting your teenager in counseling sooner than later will be a big help to them. Our team of therapists want to validate your teenager and give them self-soothing outlets for a stress.
Wisdom Within Counseling specializes in helping teenagers stop self-harm and self-injury through Essex, Connecticut DBT therapy.
