Reasons to start in holistic child therapy
Misophonia counseling helps teens who are more sensitive
To start, children and teens with misophonia have strong irritations to sounds. As well, children and teens with misophonia may show annoyance or even anger around unpleasant sounds. Commonly, children and teenagers with misophonia describe certain sounds as severely unpleasant. Some sounds may be more unpleasant may include lip smacking, breathing, muffled speech or music from other rooms. Simply the anticipation of these sounds can cause anxiety behaviors. Holistic child therapy for misophonia helps children find strategies to feel safe despite uncomfortable sounds.
What age should someone get started in holistic child therapy for misophonia?
Misophonia may appear in young children and teenagers. Sometimes, stress and trauma trigger misophonia. Other children are highly sensitive as a whole. Children as young as four or five may benefit from holistic child therapy for misophonia. Some children develop misophonia in adolescent years. Play therapies, art, yoga, and painting are all available to release anxiety and tension. A holistic approach supports self-esteem, confidence, and social skills. A fear of certain sounds can lead to friendship and sibling issues. Some teenagers get diagnosed with depression alongside misophonia.
To begin, click below for your phone consult for holistic child therapy for emotional coping strategies for misophonia.
How can misophonia counseling be supportive for families?
Sensory processing disorders, selective mutism, and mood swings can all go together. Children and teens with misophonia may avoid family meal times due to sounds of chewing.
Parents and siblings may not know what their loved one is going through and become frustrated.
Children and teens with misophonia may continually asking siblings to not to make mouth noises or stop chewing. To add, children and teenagers may be more critical of their family members due to misophonia.
Family therapy can help a child with misophonia feel safe.
Other sensitivities may be apparent to noises, sounds, and even textures of food. If your child or teenager has symptoms of misophonia, the team at Wisdom Within Counseling specializes here.
LGBTQIA+, queer, non-binary, transgender teenagers and holistic child therapy
Teenagers may be coming out as gender questioning, bisexual, pansexual or even transgender, and needing a safe place to gain confidence around their gender identity and gender expression. Furthermore, we help teens with suicidal thinking, develop alternatives to self-harm and a positive coping toolbox, so that they can be emotionally prepared for all that life has to offer them.
Counseling for adolescents and depressed teenagers boosts confidence
What is unique about how we help young adults with self-harm and DBT therapy?
We use a mixture of DBT therapies, art, yoga music and even outdoor walking sessions, to help teenagers and young adults build confidence, overcome anxiety and heal after major traumas and losses.
To begin, click below for your phone consult for holistic child therapy and creative art, yoga, and play therapies.
We would love to help your teenager develop confidence, and overall better self-esteem tools.
Teens can learn to let go of perfectionism and be emotionally prepared for college life and beyond. Maybe, your teenager is getting into conflicts with you and arguments with you at home. Even getting into impulsive behaviors like teen drinking or drug use are sign teens need therapy. We would love to help your teen or your young adult have a healthy outlet and healthy tools.
These DBT skills help in releasing intense emotions like jealousy, anger or anxiety.
What is the speciality of play therapy for children and teenagers?
There are a variety of different types of play therapy available at Wisdom Within Counseling.
Why is play therapy important and how it helps anxiety symptoms.
Loss and death in holistic child therapy
Children that may have gone through a loss of a loved one and need therapy. Maybe, they had a grandparent or an aunt or uncle die. A sibling who passes away or even get diagnosed with a major medical issue is a sign of needing professional help. Children may experience feelings of loss, grief, sadness. These come up as anger or frustration. Children don’t really know the concept of death. So, play therapy can help your child process death and release the sadness.
Therapy can help a child understand what happens when someone dies.
Children that kind of have unresolved feelings around death may ask if they can go to heaven or might ask to die themselves. Before going to therapy, children might ask concerning questions about death. Children may even tell you that they want to die to be with their loved one who died, and these can be really concerning.
If your child has questions about death, play therapy is the language of their world. So, they’ll be able to talk about death and sadness through the language of play therapy.
To begin, click below for your phone consult for holistic child therapy for misophonia, loss, and grief outlets and tools.
Holistic, creative therapies for children in divorce situations
We offer all different types of play therapies with art, yoga, music, puppets, outdoor nature therapies. These holistic, creative therapies help children express big, intense emotions.
Divorce therapy for children and teenagers
Another way that play therapy helps children is through the process of divorce and parental separation. Children, young children will often blame themselves.
Children will take on guilt, shame, frustration and think that they are the reason why their parent is divorcing.
Even if there are other adult reasons for the divorce, a child will assume self-blame and become self-critical. Children may even have negative thoughts that develop about divorce. Teens may believe that if they acted better or if they were better behaved, their parents wouldn’t be separating.
Play therapy also helps children develop confidence, separate from the divorce, realize they’re not to blame, that their parents both love them very much.
Emotional impacts of divorce on children
Sometimes, children who go through separation and divorce may have anger outbursts at school. They may have trouble concentrating. Children and teenagers may have fidgeting behaviors or wet their bed more often. All of these things are concerning and play therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling can help.
Blending of families is a great reason to start in holistic child therapy
Parents may have their own sense of sadness or frustration about divorce. There may be blending of families, one parent might be dating again. Your child may have feelings of uncertainty about meeting this new person. Somedays, you child might not want to meet the new girlfriend, boyfriend or person. Play therapy and child counseling helps your child acclimate to their changing world and multiple homes.
ADHD and hyperactivity means your child can benefit from play therapy
Another way that play therapy can help is ADHD and hyperactivity. So, ADHD is a really common diagnosis these days. ADHD means your child needs more movement and stimulation. In our offices, we have scooters, chalk and art materials. As well, children can go outside for a nature session in holistic child therapy.
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Child counseling for ADHD includes movement and includes outdoor play, hopscotch, chalk, and the outdoors.
What is play therapy for ADHD about? Holistic child therapy includes dance parties in the office with musical instruments. Children can get connected to their body. So, we focus on holistic counseling and mind body awareness in children with ADHD. That way, your child can have these coping skill for the rest of their life. And, building this foundation of mind body connection in childhood is really helpful for teenage and adult years.
Play therapists and child therapists teach about expressing emotions and healthy ways.
If your child has attention issues, or struggles to do their homework, we can help.
We specialize with children who have meltdowns around homework time and ADHD. On the parenting side, we can work together to build some gentle and positive resources. Play therapy help your child focus through movement therapies and self-esteem.
Children can use puppets to talk about what’s going on in their life. To note, children cannot sit and do traditional talking counseling. An adult might sit down and just talk with their therapist face to face. Children need something to project onto. Whether it’s a game, Jenga, hopscotch, puppets and children will learn and process their emotions better. Child therapists help children tell the story of their life through projection in puppets and play therapy.
To begin, click below for your phone consult for holistic child therapy for misophonia, low self-esteem, anger, and anxiety coping tools.
When children have emotions like sadness, loss, grief, anger they also have low self-esteem.
Also, we use books in play therapy. So, reading a book about a character going through loss can help a child realize they’re not alone. Children in counseling can develop more positive self-esteem.
Emotional regulation skills in play therapy
See a thermometer and at the top is red. So, sometimes children are in the red zone when they’re overwhelmed or angry. Then, child therapists teach calming and relaxation skills to help your child. Your child can move to the green zone, which is where they can feel calm. The green zone is where children can actually think about what you’re saying. In the green zone, children are calm and they can hear you.
With self-regulation tools, children can calm themselves holistically.
When children in the red and orange zones, they are unable to take in information. The red zone is when children are melting down, yelling, screaming. Holistic child therapists help children develop relaxation skills to go into the green zone.
Positive coping tools can help children can self-soothe.
Wisdom Within Counseling incorporates yoga, meditation, body scans, and guided visualizations to help children calm down. Learning to meditate can help children with ADHD, trauma, and anxiety feel safe from the inside out. As well, holistic play therapies give an experience of calmness and inner peace right in child counseling. Through holistic, creative play therapies, children can build confidence.
Our therapists offer a creative holistic approach to helping your child develop better self-esteem.
Your little one can find tools to overcome loss and anger. We help children and teenagers develop a positive coping toolbox.
To begin, book your free phone consult to get your teenager started in holistic child therapy for misophonia, loss, divorce, and ADHD.
Our team at Wisdom Within Counseling would love to help your family thrive.
Your child can use different musical instruments, nature, and art therapies to express themselves. Also, at Wisdom Within Counseling, we strive to help to rebuild your child’s self-esteem after bullying, loss, and trauma. Furthermore, positive coping tools promote confidence and help children feel safe in the world again. From holistic, creative counseling, children can become emotionally prepared for all that will come in their future.
Whether it’s making new friends and keeping friends, or dealing with parental separation and divorce, Wisdom Within Counseling can help.
Healing from loss and grief takes the help of a play therapist. We step into your child’s world, sit on the floor with them and really get to know them. Play therapy can bring out your child’d best qualities again.
At Wisdom Within Counseling, we offer creative holistic therapies, specialized for teens.
These therapies helps teens stop self-harm or self-injure, and really need a unique out-of-the-box approach. Our therapists help teenagers with depression begin to love themselves and build self-acceptance tools.
Katie Ziskind is the owner of Wisdom Within Counseling in Niantic, Connecticut.
We also help children, depressed teens and young adults in Massachusetts and Florida. If you have a young adult or a teenager who’s struggling with their gender, depression or self-harm, you’re not alone. You can pick from video counseling and in person therapy in Southeastern Connecticut. We work with children who need self-confidence, self-love and self-acceptance skills.
Online and in person in Niantic, we help child, teenagers, adults, and couples in neighboring towns.
We help couples in Bozrah, Waterford, Bristol, Stamford, Old Lyme, Ivoryton, Centerbrook, Essex, East Lyme, Franklin, New Haven, Griswold, Groton, Ledyard, Lisbon, Montville, Glastonbury, Colchester, East Haddam, Greenwich, Hadlyme, Hamburg, Old Saybrook, Meriden, and Madison. As well, we offer video counseling in Connecticut to Portland, Berlin, East Hampton, Haddam, Norwalk, Litchfield, Hartford, Simsbury, Fairfield, Cobalt, Cromwell, Rocky Hill, West Hartford, Clinton, Wethersfield, Middlebury, Waterbury, Guilford, Chester, Deep River, Moodus, Durham, and Middletown.
We would love to help your depressed teenager or your anxious young adult develop holistic, creative coping tools at Wisdom Within Counseling.
