Does your child display large behavioral or emotional outbursts? Do you have a child that is acting out as a result of a newborn or baby sibling? Maybe, you got a call from your child’s teacher saying that they are having trouble listening in the classroom. Or, maybe your child exhibits anger and frustration towards family members. Perhaps, you are pregnant with a new baby and your oldest is anxious or overwhelmed. Child counseling in East Lyme, Connecticut can help your child develop positive coping skills to use at school, at home, and throughout their development. Additionally, working with a child counselor at Wisdom Within Counseling can support your family as a whole.
Signs Your Child Could Benefit from Child Counseling
Anxiety in children can be manifested in a multitude of ways. Some children struggle with falling asleep at night and have nightmares. They may insist on sleeping with their parents for an extended period of their development.
Child Therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut Can Help with Anxiety in Children
Children also may experience somatic symptoms such as headaches, stomach aches, bowel problems, or fatigue. Somatic symptoms reveal underlaying anxiety because oftentimes children do not know how to directly express how they are feeling. Physical signs, therefore, allow them to display that they are in discomfort, feeling something stressful, and need emotional support.
Is your child having concerning behaviors?
Additionally, fidgeting behaviors can point to anxiety in a child. This can look like spontaneous hand movements, noises, foot tapping, swaying or rocking, hair pulling, lip biting, skin picking, nail biting, and pacing.
Anxious children also sometimes put barriers between themselves and others. A child might hide behind a piece of furniture, cover their face with their hands, or use a toy to shield themselves. Wisdom Within Counseling in East Lyme, Connecticut supports children in coping to healthy, confident ways.
In East Lyme, Connecticut, we offer creative art, yoga, music therapies, and play therapies in Southeastern Connecticut especially for young children.
Emotional outbursts are a sign your child could benefit from play therapy and counseling.
Oftentimes, children are unable to directly and outwardly communicate their emotions. As a result, children may express themselves through big emotional outbursts or what many parents deem as “temper tantrums.”
An emotional outburst can typically look like crying spells, yelling or screaming, difficulty regulating, inability to communicate through words, flailing of limbs or kicking, and defiant behavior.
Outbursts can occur at any point in time, and can often begin with a trigger. For example, maybe your child has a great day at school, and then comes home and immediately begins to cry and scream. This may mean that something at home is triggering your child.
Working with a child therapist in East Lyme, Connecticut can help understand the root of emotional outbursts.
Their therapist at Wisdom Within Counseling can assess your child’s needs and help them find emotional outlets.
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Child therapy and play therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut can help with family changes and stress
Families often undergo significant distress as a result of not knowing how to support a child in need.
This can lead to high conflict fights, disagreements on parenting styles, frustration, feelings of hopelessness or despair. Maybe, you feel like you let your child down. Or, you want to know what to know what to do when your child has a meltdown.
Or, you can’t stand to continue seeing your child struggle and it is causing emotional turmoil within yourself. Additionally, your family may appear to be criticizing how you handle your child.
At Wisdom Within Counseling in Southeastern Connecticut, our therapists can help children release big, intense emotions.
For instance, a child may be angry about school or sad about a death in the family. Children may have big feelings and their child therapist can be a “feelings doctor.”
Whether your child experiences separation anxiety or social anxiety, child therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling can help.
Music therapy can help children and teenagers can use sounds as a language beyond words. Art and creative therapies like painting can help children open up in ways beyond talk therapy. As well, movement, outdoor therapy and yoga help children build mind-body connection. From coping with emotional meltdowns, divorce, or traumatic loss, child counseling can be supportive.
To begin, click the button below to book your phone consult for child and family therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut.
Mind-body therapies and holistic counseling helps children gain emotional coping strategies. At Wisdom Within Counseling near Waterford, Connecticut, we can help your child build positive coping tools.
Child Counseling in Southeastern Connecticut for Divorced Families
Oftentimes, children of divorced families experience significant adversities. Divorced parents may struggle to communicate directly with one another, and rely on the child as the mediator. Unfortunately, children can feel complex loss and anger when stuck in the middle of divorce. Emotions around divorce and parental separation can be more challenging around the holidays of Thanksgiving, Hanukah, and Easter.
Children may also feel pressure to choose sides, which can cause inner turmoil. Due to inner turmoil of divorce, children may act out or be emotionally distant.
Child counseling can help children who have more frustration outbursts while going through divorce.
Or, maybe your child does not have a healthy or stable relationship with one of their biological parents due to the divorce.
As a result children of divorced families may experience increased feelings of anxiety, depression, and isolation.
Sibling dynamics can lead to jealousy and competition for attention
Young children may struggle to adjust to or get along with their siblings. You might notice that your child is hostile or aggressive towards a sibling.
They may physically hurt that sibling, call them names, or pick arguments. Maybe, your children are competing for your attention making morning chaotic.
Additionally, a newborn baby in the family can cause an older sibling to act out as a means of grasping for mom and dad’s love and attention. It can also bring about feelings of jealousy in an older child. Wisdom Within Counseling near Waterford, Connecticut helps children understand jealousy. Your child’s therapist can help your child cope with feeling insecure in a healthy way.
Wisdom Within Counseling offers holistic, creative child counseling. Click the button below to get started today.
Ways child counseling in Southeastern Connecticut can help
As parents, you can learn parenting tools and techniques to help your child cope with difficult emotions. A child therapist can teach you how to effectively communicate with your child in an affirming and nurturing way.
Your child’s therapist can also teach you strategies to better support your child’s development. For instance, you can do family therapy sessions with all siblings to promote sharing and play. Your child can be the central focus of therapy for your family.
Family therapy can make your home life feel calmer and more meaningful.
As well, you can have your child meet with their therapist individually. Furthermore, your child’s therapist can help you with parenting by giving psycho-education about eating habits and sleeping schedules. At Wisdom Within Counseling near Old Lyme, Connecticut, your child can use art, yoga, music, and holistic therapies. Learning to cope with intense emotions in healthy ways is a big part of child counseling.
Positive parenting session
Child counseling can also better support the family by enhancing confidence in parents and improving the marriage or partnership.
Having a stable and healthy marriage, in turn, allows for more positive growth and development among children.
Child and family therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut can support you through big family changes
Have you had a new baby recently?
Maybe, you have a new baby in the family and your firstborn is struggling to adjust. Child counseling can allow you to engage in one-on-one alone time with your older child. Also, family therapy and child counseling in East Lyme, Connecticut can help your oldest feel loved and wanted after a new baby is born. It is a huge adjustment becoming an older brother or older sister.
Wisdom Within Counseling helps children, teens, families, and couples in Southeastern Connecticut.
Together, you can read a book, create an art project, and learn how to process the big emotions of being an older sibling. Child and parent counseling also allows you to communicate with your child that you still love them and care for them just as much as the new baby.
We can help if you live in Bozrah, East Lyme, Old Lyme, Madison, Clinton, Ivoryton, Essex, East Lyme, Franklin, Griswold, Groton, Ledyard, Lisbon, Mystic, or Montville, Connecticut. In person and video counseling are options for your family.
How Wisdom Within Counseling Can Help With Child Counseling and Play Therapy in Southeastern Connecticut
Here at Wisdom Within Counseling, we offer a variety of creative and playful therapies. In sessions, our therapists may use puppets, legos, books, musical instruments, paint, or other creative techniques to teach emotional regulation strategies to children.
We also teach children to healthy styles of communication, attachment, and ways of coping with difficult life changes. Our holistic, creative therapies are evidence-based and life-changing for children. Art, painting, yoga, and music therapies are available in family therapy and child counseling in East Lyme, Connecticut. We would love to support your family!
