First, is your child have bad behavior in school? Or, is your child talking about anxiety, worry, and panic? Also, is your adolescent or teenager struggling with a learning disability and mood issues? Well, holistic, creative social emotional skills in child counseling help with emotional development. To add, when children go through a divorce, losing a family pet, get a new sibling, they need help processing these experiences. Furthermore, emotions like anger, frustration, and boredom often end in aggression outbursts. Plus, the social emotional skills in child counseling teach children positive coping skills for teenager years and college. Call/text 860-451-9364 for your child with ADHD or autism to learn social emotional skills in child counseling.
Does your child or adolescent need help with any of the following social and emotional learning areas?
Sometimes, when children and teenagers lack self-control, they also lack social learning skills. Well, what is a social learning skill for ADHD or autism anyway? For one, children need help understanding how to expresses feelings with words, verbally. So, a child therapist is a person outside of the family to teach your child these skills. Does your child have issues with listening and paying attention in class. Also, does your child lie and cheat when play a game? Or, when your child looses a game, is there aggression or a huge emotional meltdown? Lastly, does your adolescent have low self-esteem and not know how to take pride in accomplishments? Well, we help children and teenagers develop a positive self image for self-confidence and emotional regulation. Call/text 860-451-9364 for information on creative child therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut.
Call/text 860-451-9364 for your child with ADHD or autism to learn social emotional skills in child counseling.
Social skills, emotional intelligence, and emotional awareness in children are aspects of behaviors and the psyche that fascinate many play therapists.
For you, here, is one great resource that you can use as a parent to help foster emotional awareness in your developing child. Overall, social emotional skills in child counseling help with self-esteem and confidence.
Furthermore, social emotional skills in child counseling help children with autism and ADHD build long-term, positive friendships and social connections with siblings. 
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Teaching Children To Recognize Feelings
First, children take time to learn these essential social-emotional skills. In elementary school, your child will need these skills. Then, in middle school, your child will use social skills with peers as well as in various situations throughout their life. From adolescence, you teenager will use social emotional skills when dating and in their marriage. So, it is really important to teach your child how to express feelings and how their words impact people. Additionally, it is important to teach your child how to recognize feelings and emotions in other people through body language and facial expressions.
Read This Book: Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child by John Gottman
In supplement, this book helps parents, caregivers, and guardians identify and understand a child’s emotions. Did you know, children feel emotions, but express them differently than adults. First, an adult will feel comforted from talking about their problems. On the other hand, a child will feel safe and free playing and using toys, art, and puppets to release their feelings. Read more about play therapy in my counseling practice, here. Call/text 860-451-9364 for your child with ADHD or autism to learn social emotional skills in Niantic, Connecticut child counseling.
Children Play Their Feelings Out While Adults Talking In Therapy
Children need help, and that takes a great parent like you to show them the way and lead. In conclusion, this book teaches parents how to offer support, encouragement, and how to grow closer while teaching their child social and emotional skills. You’ll also learn how to help your child think of the very best way to solve a social-emotional challenge at hand. Call/text 860-451-9364 for your child with ADHD or autism to learn social emotional skills in child counseling.
Parenting Tips: Be Curious and Try To Understand Your Child’s Feelings
Yes, parenting a child who is learning to be self-aware can be challenging. Sometimes, regressions happen. However, even when you are in a super rush and your child seems to be doing everything to make you both more late, still, take the time to empathize. Overall, parenting sessions help you teach your child social and emotional learning skills. As humans, we learn to love and care for other people by feeling love from others.
Also, when you help your anxious child feel understood. And, specific biochemicals in their brain become active and empathy grows from that emotional bond with you.
Therefore, each time you understand and validate your child’s feelings, you are training their brain to be more empathetic to others. Furthermore, social emotional skills in child counseling help with verbalizing anxiety and sadness. From emotional confidence, social emotional skills from child and teen counseling promote healthy friendships. Call/text 860-451-9364 for your child with ADHD or autism to learn social emotional skills in East Lyme, Connecticut child counseling.
By soothing your child’s emotions simply by being understanding, you are helping your child be more caring as he or she grows up.
I would love to help your child develop emotional awareness through my family therapy services. Simply text 860-451-9364 to get started.
Written By Katie Ziskind
Katie Ziskind, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, RTY500 provides experiential therapy in Niantic, CT. At Wisdom Within Counseling, Katie helps frustrated teens and young adults build confidence by integrating art, yoga, music, and animal therapy with talk therapy. Plus, social emotional skills in child counseling help with self-esteem and confidence for lifelong mental wellness. To add, we teach anxious children these skills for communication and emotional expression. Further, unlike other therapists, we use creative art, yoga, music, and animal therapies. Overall, Katie Ziskind and the team help teens stop alcoholism, vaping, self-harm, and drug use, so they can love themselves! Furthermore, the animal therapy groups teach skills such as self-regulation, trust, and social emotional learning. To conclude, call Katie Ziskind and her team for a free consultation to talk about how she can help your teen or young adult build confidence today (860) 451-9364.
