What causes divorces and who do they affect?
Overall, there are many aspects that lead families to separate, divorce, and to create a big change. Similarly, divorce none the less affects children, grandparents, and parents in different ways. On that note, divorce, family separation, and blending families impact all members of the family. Therefore, family counseling and individual therapy helps reduce anger, frustration and loss. Instead, Family therapy in Waterford, Connecticut promotes a positive divorce and family culture.
To begin, click the button below for family therapy in Waterford, Connecticut to support healthy communication skills in divorce.
Why start in family therapy in Waterford Connecticut for divorce?
Notably, children and teenager may have feelings about a parent beginning to date again. Sometimes, children are happy to meet a new boyfriend or girlfriend.
Other times, children pull away and find it surprising or uncomfortable to see their parent dating.
As well, when one ex-spouse moves on quickly and begins a new relationship, this can cause jealousy in the other ex-spouse. Any jealousy can create conflict that causes emotional problems for children.
Healthy communication skills supports better sibling relationships
Now, if parents are hostile towards each other, children and siblings will mirror these negative communication patterns. So, if your children are fighting, family therapy in Southeastern Connecticut helps. At Wisdom Within Counseling, you can work with a family therapist to reduce conflict. Likewise, learning conflict resolution skills helps children and parents alike. As well, the team of marriage and family therapists help families in divorce use healthy communication skills.
Family therapy in Waterford Connecticut can help when divorcing parents overshare with children.
Unfortunately, parents tend to overshare their own negative emotions about one another with their children.
For instance, children may be pulled into divorce arguments or asked to pick who they want to live with. Making children pick creates internalized shame, blame, and guilt. Never should a child be asked to pick sides. To note, children often develop anger, frustration tolerance issues, and depression in conflictual family divorces.
Emotional impacts of divorce
Unfortunately, over sharing creates major problems emotionally for children. When parents have their own therapist, they can speak about stresses there. Parents may unintentionally share negative statements or opinions to their children.
Children may act out, have behavior issues or goto the principal’s office. Drive can lead to other issues with sleep, memory, and concentration. As well, children and parents going through divorce may have low self-worth and low self-esteem.
Divorce counseling in Southeastern Connecticut can supports positive self-esteem skills.
More so, moodiness, irritability, or crankiness may develop as a result of a high conflict divorce. Therapy in a divorce and blended family situation helps parents have healthy boundaries with their children.
Also, a parent’s relationship with their child shouldn’t include negative statements about the child’s other parent.
In time, divorce counseling in the East Lyme area can help ex-spouses have a safe place to release tension away from children. Instead, family therapy in Waterford Connecticut helps parents make the decisions together.
To begin, click the button below for family therapy in Waterford, Connecticut to support healthy communication skills in divorce.
What are signs family therapy in Waterford Connecticut is needed in a divorce?
When parents begin talking badly about the other parent to their child, this is a sign therapy is needed.
Consequently, divorce will bring up a host of intense emotions. Equally important, counseling through a divorce supports expressing these intense emotions. And, counseling for families, parents, and children can promote healing and resiliency. However, parents need to maintain strong boundaries and not overshare. Often, children feel the divorce was their fault.
Why do children blame themselves in divorce?
If they did something differently, they believe their parent would not be divorcing. As a result, children believe they did something that caused their parents to divorce.
Instead, family therapy in Waterford Connecticut can help children alleviate blame.
Sometimes, children punish themselves or develop and inner critic. As well, children feel pressure to make their parent’s happy leading to anxiety.
Essentially, counseling supports emotional expression and coping tools. Therapy can be a safe place for children and parents to remove blame and develop confidence.
Parents in Southeastern Connecticut can have a safe place to talk about anger, loss, sadness, and jealousy in privacy.
To add, conflictual parents and their children really benefit holistic therapy. In the same way, brining children to therapy boost self-esteem and confidence. If parents are bringing children into arguments and asking them to pick sides, co-parenting therapy can help. Further parents who overshare emotionally with their children pass on their own stress, tension, and emotion turmoil to their child.
Family therapy in Waterford Connecticut is a safe place to release emotions.
As parents may remarry, children can talk about frustration in counseling. Furthermore, family counseling can beneficial for everyone. In counseling in Southeastern Connecticut, we help families thrive after divorce. With that said, divorce counseling is healing and improves togetherness. On that note, families who feel disconnected from divorce can learn healthy communication skills.
To begin, click the button below for family therapy in Waterford, Connecticut to support healthy communication skills in divorce.
Family therapy in Waterford, Connecticut supports all members of the family.
Family therapy in Waterford, Connecticut may also help teenagers who feel angry, depressed, or isolate. Often, separation and divorce causes teenagers to blame themselves. Blame, guilt, and shame can lead to personal hygiene issues and depression. Moreover, teens who lack acceptance may self-harm out of self-blame. To add, video and in person counseling supports teenagers who self-harm. therapy can help teenagers who self-harm or self=injury healthy coping tools. Finally, therapy can help your teen learn to accept their family’s divorce.
Teens in family divorce or a blended family may be angry and easily frustrated with parents and siblings.
Likewise, DBT therapies can help teenagers develop radical acceptance and present moment thinking. At Wisdom Within Counseling, teenagers can have a safe place to express big emotions like anger and loss.
Additionally, your teenager may stop spending time with family and friends after a family separation and divorce.
Your teenager may come out as a gay, bisexual, lesbian, queer, non-binary, or pansexual. We are LGBTQIA+ affirming at Wisdom Within Counseling. As well, therapy helps teens learn important social skills and self-care skills.
From a foundational creative emotional expression and holistic therapy, our team helps teens through divorce. Further, families can do yoga poses and meditations together to create safety.
Also, creative art and painting as a family can create togetherness in a divorce. Likewise, building security and emotional validation are parts of family therapy. More so, co-parents can use yoga therapy to reduce conflict and get on the same page.
To note, Wisdom Within Counseling offers Telehealth and video TeleTherapy. Family therapy in Waterford, Connecticut helps teens and their families overcome shame, blame, and guilt around divorce.
If you are getting divorced, you may notice that your adolescent or young adult is more moody and anxious.
Also, you may find that your family is more chaotic during divorce and moving. Overall, counseling and family therapy in Southeastern Connecticut can help you and your children connect together emotionally.
Therefore, you can process emotions like feeling sadness and loss. Sometimes, families need to change to get healthier. So, your child’s therapist can provide hope for the future.
Wisdom Within Counseling offers art, yoga, music, walking therapies in Niantic, Connecticut.
Why holistic, creative family therapy in Waterford Connecticut?
Play therapies are a language of a child and help children talk without talking. And, play therapy helps therapists understand a child’s story emotionally.
Art therapies promote creative outlets and healthy coping tools. Plus, painting can be a way to express emotions that are stuck inside. As well, yoga therapies, meditation, and joyful movement promote mind-body connection. Likewise, walking by the Niantic Bay Boardwalk supports a healthy nervous system.
You can choose from any creative, art, yoga, music, or animal therapies at Wisdom Within Counseling. On that note, our team of holistic marriage and family therapist and coaches help families develop calmness and connection.
To begin, click the button below to book your free phone consult for divorce counseling for your family along the Southeastern shoreline.
What happens when people don’t attend family therapy in Waterford, Connecticut?
Yelling, anger, and the silent treatment cause damage in times of divorce. Children may stop speaking to one parent. it is common for estrangements to develop with out family counseling. Estrangements can be incredibly painful.
Therefore, family therapy in Waterford, Connecticut provides emotional support in times of transition like divorce and separation.
The marriage and family therapists help parents separate in respectful and positive ways. Therapy can help with keeping conflict low and keeping children out of divorce arguments.
Family therapy in Waterford, Connecticut helps parents separate without causing added stress to children. Divorce can bring a variety of issues. It is common for divorce to create tension, blame, shame, and critical thoughts.
Children may suffer if they are brought into arguments and conflicts. As well, children need a divorce counselor to help them through play therapies.
Counseling at Wisdom Within in East Lyme can teach coping skills to all members of a family.
As well, counseling may help people work toward a new life. There may be uncertainties and big emotions that therapy can assist with. In general, the team at Wisdom Within Counseling help families have a healthier outlook on their divorce as a whole.
Counseling for divorce can provide hope. Children and parents can start to feel encouragement, hope, creativity, and empowerment. Wisdom Within Counseling provides families in divorce a safe place to share feelings and thoughts.
