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Find a Therapist for Your College Student: What All Parents Need to Know

Finding a therapist can be defeating especially when your young adult doesn’t like talking. Therapy can be the safe place for your young adult outside of school and home. Peer pressure, self harm, and bullying can lead to depression and anxiety. Getting into a hobby or social group around the college campus can build self-worth. Wisdom Within Counseling in East Lyme, Connecticut offers therapy for anxiety, depression, and dating skills for young adults. Furthermore, seeking a therapist for your college student can improve depression and anxiety. Positive coping tools are a healthy benefit from having a therapist for your college student.

Benefits of having therapist for your college student or young adult with depression or anxiety

Therapy can help improve social friendships, family connections, and self-acceptance tools for college students.

At times, many students find themselves looking for more support emotionally around dating, safe sex, and sexual orientation. Your college student may not want to talk to parents or grandparents about sex, consent, and dating. So, counseling offers emotional support than their parents or friends can provide.

If your son or daughter needs to find help for anxiety, depression, or conflict, Wisdom Within Counseling can help.

So, if you have questions or want a therapist for your college student, Wisdom Within Counseling specializes in this area.

Creative therapy for college students for emotional release

To add, creative art therapies, yoga therapies, music therapies, and walk and talk therapies help build a positive toolbox. DBT therapies, narrative therapies and IFS therapy support teenagers and young adults in developing better self-care tools. In Southeastern, Connecticut, Wisdom Within Counseling offers young adults a safe place to build confidence. Inner peace in meditation and mindfulness therapies helps with fear and trauma responses. And, walking outdoors therapies support coping tools for anxiety. Your college student gets a unique approach to self-awareness.

Having a therapist for your college student also promotes mindfulness and self-care tools.

Wisdom Within Counseling recommends you have a therapist for your college student for LGBTQIA+, coming out and sexual orientation developments

LGBTQIA+ and queer young adults may be questioning their sexual orientation. Sometimes, young adults question their gender. Having a safe place and having encouragement can build self-esteem. There may be feelings of anger, awkwardness, insecurity, and fear that therapy can help release. Therefore, having a therapist for your college student can help build self-confidence. Expressing emotions also connects to making and keeping healthy friends. And, it is especially important young adults find a queer friend group when they are coming out for support. LGBTQIA+ young adults can talk about safe sex, healthy dating boundaries, and sexual orientation in counseling. More so, having an LGBTQIA+ affirming therapist for your college student can help with teen drug and alcohol use too.

Having a therapist for your college student can help deal with young adult alcohol, drug, and substance use

Young adults are susceptible to alcoholism, drinking, and negative and impulsive drug behaviors. As well, then young adults feel pressure from friends and socially to drink alcohol, they end up drinking way too much. You teenager or young adult may have problems drinking during the day. They may now be having poor grades, having frustration issues, or having problematic behaviors. Furthermore, with the support of counseling, teenagers and young adults can choose healthy alternatives to drugs. Boredom, depression, emotional pain can lead a young adult to smoke cigarettes, vape nicotine, use drugs, or drink alcohol.

DBT therapy in Southeastern Connecticut

DBT therapy in Southeastern CT is available at Wisdom Within Counseling. To add, DBT therapy incorporates mindfulness and interpersonal skills.

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Dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) provides alternatives to cutting, self-injury and self-harm. To add, DBT is a type of cognitive behavioral therapy that helps teenagers and young adults stop self-harm. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps young adults with self-harm identify and change negative thinking patterns. As well, DBT therapy in Southeastern Connecticut supports for positive behavioral changes instead of cutting.

DBT in Southeastern Connecticut may helps with suicidal thinking and other self-destructive behaviors.

To begin, click the button below for your phone consult to have holistic, creative therapist for your college student at Wisdom Within.

Wisdom Within Counseling can help your college student gain positive coping tools through art, yoga, music, and outdoor walking therapies.

If carried into adulthood, these are highly addictive behaviors. Therefore, by improving mental health through counseling, young adults can learn to be confident socially without alcohol. Having a therapist for your college student can help them have a safe place to talk about peer pressure. So, they can learn healthier ways to manage social anxiety and find positive coping tools.

Therapy can helps reduce impulsive behaviors in young adults

Teens and young adults commonly want to vape nicotine and start drinking alcohol when unsupervised.

It can be a fine line to give your teenager or young adult independence and be there for them. So, parent sessions can help promote guidance, supervision, and healthy parental support.

Counseling for eating disorders in college students

To add, eating disorders are very common in college students. Common signs are severe weight loss, a sudden increase in exercise, concerning rituals before eating, large consumptions of food in one sitting, or restricting calories. On that note, common eating disorders are anorexia and bulimia. Now, holistic therapy can help with art, yoga, music, meditation, and outdoor walking therapies are part of eating disorder treatment in Connecticut. As well, the team at Wisdom Within Counseling can help your college student have positive coping tools for self-love and self-acceptance. Less common, are binge eating disorder and ARFID.

Eating disorders can be life threatening without treatment.

Sometimes, eating disorders go hand in hand with BPD, ADHD, ADD, autism, and sensory processing disorder. Essentially, eating disorders typically begin between ages twelve and twenty five. Now, both men and women suffer from eating disorders, anorexia, binge eating disorder, and bulimia. To add, if your college student is suffering from an eating disorder, Wisdom Within Counseling can help them. From fears to food, to anxiety about eating is public, our team of counselors can help. As well, your college student may be an athlete and feel pressure to be skinnier.

To begin, click the button below to book your phone consult for Connecticut therapy for your college student.

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