Child Therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut
When children need therapy, they will tell you through problematic behaviors. Your child may not actually ask to go to therapy, but may be behaving in concerning ways. At times, children may have trouble sleeping through the night. With anxiety, children and teenagers may ask a lot of different questions about life.
Children and teenagers may have concerning questions and need therapy to help understand life better.
Even children as young as eight years old may have questions about how babies are made and sex. Teenagers may have anxiety about being perfect all the time. There may be concerning behaviors like social withdrawal, depression, anger, or irritability. Questions about anxiety, fears, worries, death, friends, divorce, and sex are reasons to reach out.
If your child has been bedwetting after learning to sleep through the night, this is a sign play therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut can help them. In severe cases, bed wetting can be a marker for sexual trauma.
When families are in conflict or parents are divorcing, children may become frustrated easily.
Additionally, self-harm, mood swings, anxiety, lack of friends, anger, or the silent treatment are signs your child or teenager needs support.
Adolescents and siblings may be fighting, hitting, yelling, or in competition. Also, loss of a grandparent or having a parent with mental health issues can be stressful for children.
You might notice emotional meltdowns, disruptive behaviors, or anxious behaviors develop.
How do creative arts help support children and teens?
Holistic walking and talking therapies support depressed teenagers in joyful movement. Being outside in nature calms the nervous system and allows one to feel a sense of inner peace.
Often, when children come in for therapy they tell their therapist, ”I feel icky all the time.” Therapists connect with preschoolers and toddlers and are “feelings doctors” for children.
Perhaps, your child or adolescent wants to paint, use clay, tie dye, learn a mindfulness meditation, or play an instrument to release and relax. With the use of mind-body therapies, children and young adults can feel at home in their body.
We find that anxious children benefit from creative, holistic play therapies for emotional expression and confidence.
Also, if your child has anger issues or frequent temper tantrums, Wisdom Within Counseling can help.
Children can use play therapy to release and overcome anger, frustration, separation anxiety, clinginess, and excessive worry. In addition, holistic, creative, play therapy helps children vocalize their fears, worries, and frustrations. At Wisdom Within Counseling, we help anxious children build self-esteem using clay, puppets, art, painting, and nature therapies.
Family stress and changes lead to a need for child therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut
Children who are struggling with a parent’s divorce may have depression or anxiety. Sibling conflicts can create stress, jealousy, anger, and competition. Plus, play therapy can help children build self-confidence and self-acceptance. Children may have mood changes after divorce, where they become angry or shy. Your child may be hitting siblings, getting angry with one parent, or not participating at school. Sometimes, children in divorce need a play therapist who has speciality training to step into their frustrated world. When children have anxiety, they may have problems with sibling, parent, and grandparent relationships.
Just like your child goes to math class in school, attending to play therapy sessions in East Lyme, Connecticut help your child build emotional skills.
Each child has different triggers for impulsive behavior, anger, or panic.
Play therapy and child counseling in East Lyme, Connecticut helps children understand their triggers and how to cope.
In play therapy and child counseling, your child can feel safe processing jealousy about a peer or sibling relationship.
Your child may have anxiety and fear about moving to a new home. In divorce, separation, and blending families, children may also fear rejection and have anxiety and uncertainty that gets in the way of enjoying life.
Play therapy helps your child build self-esteem and emotional coping tools. Plus, play therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut helps children tell their story in an age appropriate way.
To begin, click the button below for a phone consult for holistic child and adolescent counseling in East Lyme, Connecticut.
Wisdom Within Counseling in East Lyme, Connecticut offers art, painting, and creative therapies to help children talk about emotions in ways beyond words.
Children may need help with social friendships and keeping friends. They may not understand how to read social behaviors, body language, or make eye contact. More so, if your child is getting bullied, they may have low self-esteem. Play therapies in East Lyme, Connecticut help your child express emotions and build self-esteem.
As well, children with anxiety may socially shy, stop speaking, and develop selective mutism.
When children go through trauma, loss, and grief, they may develop selective mutism. With selective mutism, children experience social anxiety, lack of eye contact, shyness, and speech problems.
To add, creative play therapies in East Lyme, Connecticut support recovering from selective mutism and mesophonia. Wisdom Within Counseling offers a variety of creative, holistic strategies for children.
Holistic play therapies help children with selective mutism reduce social fears and anxiety, and overcome selective mutism.
These holistic, play therapy therapeutic interventions help children with social anxiety learn to gradually engage in more speaking behaviors. Sometimes, loss and grief, such as loss of a parent, causes a child to develop selective mustim. Your child’s therapist can understand the reason and root of selective mutism. Even a trauma like COVID can lead a child to have selective mutism and more silence.
Loss and grief in child therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut
Children need help processing grief in play therapy. Learning to cope with loss is very challenging for a little one. Young preschoolers and children may talk about death or dying frequently. Children who have questions about death are looking to heal.
Also, your child may have strange, concerning questions about death and dying. When children inquire about death, where people go, and loss, this is them asking for a therapist to help process emotions. It is normal for children who have experienced trauma and loss to have strange questions about dying. After your child may have lost a parent, sibling, grandparent, or even a pet, it is normal for them to ask questions about death.
Grief and loss counseling for children in therapy
Children may have new fears about where people go when they die. Also, your child may even tell you they want to die themselves when they are angry or overwhelmed.
At Wisdom Within Counseling in East Lyme, Connecticut, we offer outdoor play therapies for helping with grief and loss. As well, children who better understand their emotions of sadness and loss can cope in healthy ways. Anger is common when children lack positive coping strategies for grief and loss. From there, play therapy helps in boosting self-confidence.
Art, play therapies, and painting can promote grief coping skills and frustration outlets.
Children don’t get information on how to deal with challenging emotions in school. Essentially, children learn how to express their emotions in calm and confident ways. At Wisdom Within Counseling, we love helping children vocalize when they need. Our team provides children with a sense of autonomy, independence and leadership as they learn to navigate challenges of life. Also, child-centered play therapy is the language of your child.
To begin, click the button below for a phone consult for holistic child and adolescent counseling.
Puppets, clay, art, painting, and holistic therapies help children feel safe talking about emotions.
The therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling, we connect in your child’s language. Children can also learn to identify when they are having an overwhelming day. Therapy can help children share what they feel rather than having a meltdown. Your child can feel confident letting go of big feelings in healthy, healing ways. We also offer family therapy and parent sessions for support within child therapy.
Adolescents and Teen Therapy in Connecticut
Counseling Helps in Fostering Independence and Confidence from a Young Age
Does your adolescent call themselves, “too fat,” “too skinny,” or criticizes their body? Also, does you adolescent cry, have anxiety, or tell you they, “can’t” do something? Your adolescent may say, “I can’t,” try a new food or “I can’t” goto school. These are signs of low confidence and poor self-image. Also, is your child questioning their gender? They may want you to call them a different name all together to use they/them pronouns. In counseling, we provide adolescents and teenagers emotional support. Your adolescent or teenager can have a safe place to explore LGBTQIA+ and talk about dating.
When your adolescent needs support from a professional therapist outside your family, Wisdom Within Counseling specializes in creative therapy.
Also, your adolescent may feel like they have no friends, or no one likes them, or feel like an outcast. Getting bullied can really lower self-esteem. Building confidence is possible through holistic child and adolescent counseling at Wisdom Within. Creative art therapy supports self-acceptance, self-love, and anxiety management tools. We offer painting, creative options, and even outdoor walking therapies for anxiety. As well, from adolescent years, your child can take holistic coping skills into college years and beyond for independence.
Does your teenager show perfectionism or never feel good enough?
Children and teenagers with low self-esteem and anxiety often have perfectionism traits. Trying to be perfect all the time leads to overwhelm and low self-worth. Anxious adolescents tend to put way too much pressure on themselves. They may raise the bar way too high and never be able to meet their own goals. At Wisdom Within Counseling in East Lyme, Connecticut, our team of creative therapists help adolescents develop positive attributes. Your teenager can learn to believe in themselves again and build healthy coping tools.
Learning emotional confidence tools in childhood years helps foster these for adulthood.
We help y our teenager develop into an emotionally confident, independent, motivated adult. Also, in creative therapy, we give your adolescent choices, which is really positive for their decision making skills in adulthood. They can pick from yoga therapy, drama therapy, music therapy, and even walking therapies by the beach for self-care.
To begin, click the button below for a phone consult for holistic child and adolescent counseling in Southeastern Connecticut.
Does your teenager have picky eating habits or critique their body?
Plus, a lot of teenagers and young adults pick themselves apart. In the mirror, your adolescent may criticize their body, want to wear make up, or wish to change their body shape. Self-criticism is painful to watch. Therapy helps your teenager develop self-love around foods, friends, and social skills. When children and adolescents have a chance to talk about their body image, they can learn self-acceptance skills. In counseling, adolescents may need help talking about their mistakes too. As a parent or guardian, we offer parenting sessions to help your adolescent in between counseling appointments.
Adolescent therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut helps your teen understand self-love skills and self-acceptance.
Maybe, your teenager also acts in impulsive, rebellious ways. Counseling can improve their decision making process. Slowing down, coping with distress, and understanding they feel is important. Making choices and talking about social consequences is a big part of counseling. Also, our team of therapists show curiosity by asking questions. At Wisdom Within Counseling, we offer art, yoga, music, painting, and creative therapies to support and guide teenagers.
Wisdom Within Counseling supports creative expression for anxiety coping tools.
In holistic child and adolescent counseling in Old Lyme, CT, you can find out if your child may be acting out in negative ways if they feel peer pressure.
Sometimes, children feel that they have to be a robot at school. They try to change themselves in order to fit in. And, children and teenagers may not realize it when they are sacrificing themselves to be liked by others. With low self-esteem, adolescents may decide to conform at school. When a child feels they have to “fit in,” or else they are an outcast, they often socially withdraw from family and friends.
As well, adolescents to feel they don’t belong at home or with peers become tearful, depressed, angry, and anxious. And, your child or adolescent may not be able to directly tell you this is what they are experiencing.
To begin, click the button below for a phone consult for holistic child and adolescent counseling in East Lyme, Connecticut.
Play therapy, art therapy, yoga therapy, and music therapy can help your adolescent talk.
In ways beyond just words, creative therapies give adolescents a voice to release big emotions. So, your adolescent’s red flag behaviors may tell it all. The team at Wisdom Within Counseling loves supporting children, teens, and young adults in build emotional coping tools.
Would you like help setting boundaries with your adolescent or teenager?
At times, it can be confusing to know how firm boundaries should be. If an adolescent is told what to wear, what they can’t do, or that they have to keep their hair a specific way, this can cause problems in adulthood. If you want help nurturing your teenager while also setting boundaries, parenting session can help. Creative child and adolescent counseling in Old Lyme, Connecticut supports parents in building a meaningful relationship with their adolescent.
So, at Wisdom Within Counseling in Old Lyme, Connecticut, we help parents build a positive relationship with their anxious child or teen.
Children and adolescents need support in picking their own clothes, hair, and even friends. It might feel concerning when teens what to make major changes. Teens may crave freedom around gender expression. At Wisdom Within Counseling, we can help you develop a positive relationship with your teenager or young adult. They may not be sharing as much with you, so their therapist can be on the look out for self-harm or other problem issues.
Child and teen anxiety about being the outcast at school
Self-esteem lowers from too much criticism and oppression from peers, unfortunately. Other peers may unintentionally give their worries and fears to your adolescent. If your child feels fear and anxiety coming from their school friends, they may act out to rebel or withdraw. Fears and anxiety damper self-esteem and confidence development.
As well, when self-esteem is low, sibling and parental conflict may increase. Your child may try to tell you they are in emotional pain at school through negative behaviors like mean words, and hurtful kicks or punches. At Wisdom Within Counseling in Old Lyme, Connecticut, our team of child and family therapists specialize in this area.
We help anxious children and adolescents release big feelings like anger and sadness in healthy ways.
Child therapy and teen counseling in East Lyme, Connecticut
From a young age, children know exactly what they do and do not want. As well, it is evident by their firm and consistent use of the word “no.” But, as children grow up, they may feel uncertain when others talk for them or decide for them. Often times, adolescents doubt their own decision making process when they are constantly told by others how they should think, feel, and behave. The team at Wisdom Within Counseling help your adolescent develop confidence and assurance in themselves to decrease anxiety.
Confidence is part of creative painting, yoga, and walking therapies. At Wisdom Within Counseling in Old Lyme, Connecticut, holistic child and adolescent supports parents and children in expressing intense emotions.
Healthy ways to cope are possible through art therapies, drama therapies, yoga therapies, music therapies, and nature therapies.
To begin, click the button below for a phone consult for holistic child and adolescent counseling.
Self-expression in creative therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut
Essentially, self-expression builds that confidence will accompany them throughout their life. Your adolescent may be coming out as gay, bisexual, or transgender. As well, gender expression and sexuality are changing and evolving in teen years too. However, children are very aware of their gender and expression from a young age. From a very young age children are able to identify who looks like a boy or a girl. And, your child may be questioning their gender or even saying they want a different name.
Child and teen therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling supports healthy LGBTQIA+ self-expression.
We can help your teenager develop confidence in who they are vs. being swayed by peers. Sometimes, adolescents who identify as non-binary prefer they and them pronouns. Part of supporting gender expression therapy for teens in East Lyme, Connecticut can be talking about they/them pronouns and name your child prefers.
Wisdom Within Counseling is LGBTQIA+, non-binary, queer, and transgender affirming
If you ask your child, “What does a girl look like?” your child might tell you a girl wears dresses or has long hair. If your adolescent has non-binary or non-conforming friends, they will want ot be more expressive. Teens are influenced by peers a lot. They need help building a strong sense of identity and self-esteem. Essentially, counseling can help your teen be who they are, and do it for themselves rather than to fit in.
Sometimes, adolescents who are gender fluid or non-binary also identify as pansexual or bisexual. As well, talking about sexual orientation means talking about healthy dating boundaries too. Transgender children and adolescents may say, “I am not a girl.” Or, they may say, “I was born into the wrong gender body.” LGBTQIA+ affirming child and teen therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling helps promote self-confidence.
Many times, adolescents and teenagers think about looks, clothes, identity, and expression much more than you think.
When adolescents feels like an outcast or alone, they will develop depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, and poor grades. Only from safe people, acceptance and support can confidence build. At Wisdom Within Counseling, offers LGBTQIA+ affirming child and adolescent counseling in Old Lyme, Connecticut.
