What is holistic family therapy and counseling in Southeastern Connecticut?
Well, holistic family therapy and counseling in Southeastern Connecticut involves art, yoga, and nature walking therapies. In general, our team of marriage and family therapists focus on ways to help you thrive. From anxiety, loss, or divorce, you can feel distress as a family. So, Wisdom Within Counseling offers holistic family therapy and counseling in Southeastern Connecticut. Perhaps, instead of talking or being angry with each other, an art therapy session will help. Overall, you learn positive ways to connect with laughter and love through art and movement therapies. Call/text 860-451-9364 for holistic family therapy and counseling in Southeastern Connecticut.
What is one way you can bond with your family this weekend?
Now, watching football can be a love-hate relationship for many families. Every fall, passionate football fans stand up, jump, and cheer in their living rooms. For one, you can bond as a family over the food and conversation. To start, hands grab into a bowl of sour cream and onion chips sitting on the kitchen counter. Then, chat about how you made the dip as a family. And, some couples like the social aspect of meeting other married couples for food out.
Why do many families struggle and still feel disconnection and distance?
On Sunday, you may have plans for your teenagers, to get to the mall, buy some new clothes because they are growing so fast, and hurry home. We are always trying to change our lives. Often, you may feel a drive to make more money, get the newer car, or new clothes. And, you are still left feeling, “I am not good enough. I need to fix this and that.”
What to expect in creative, holistic counseling in Niantic, Connecticut for anxious children, stressed individuals, and distant couples?
For one, creative therapy for anxiety helps you love all you have. In general, holistic family therapy in Southeastern Connecticut helps you be present with each other. Now, when you are present, you can truly enjoy your life and your relationships. With anxiety and panic, if you are living in the past or anticipating the future, you may miss out. Therefore, alternative, creative art, painting, yoga, music, and dance is positive. Really, being in therapy is about self-love and self-esteem skills. We offer creative, playful, holistic family therapy and counseling in Southeastern Connecticut. So, call/text 860-451-9364 for family therapy in Niantic, Connecticut.
What about watching football or playing football together outside creates bonding?
Now, enjoying the moment of the shared experience is fun. Try bring mindful. For instance, notice the smell of the cheesy cheetos. And, become aware of the music in the background of the game. Also, go outside together and play football on the lawn. Really, this is mindfulness, playfulness, and connecting. So, call/text 860-451-9364 for creative family therapy in Niantic, Connecticut.
Overall, the team of therapists in East Lyme, Connecticut helps anxious children and parents reconnect playfully.
How can you choose to be present and focus on relationships even when frustrated? For one, make comments about the player’s fitness levels, passion for running and playing hard, and what they eat for breakfast. Maybe, this sparks an idea to make breakfast as a family. If you teenager doesn’t like football and your young adult and partner are watching the game, see if you can find a craft for you and your teenager that you can do on the carpet while in the same room as your other family members who are watching the football game.
Really, if you are in high conflict fights, yelling, or screaming, this is a negative cycle. And, the therapists in Niantic, CT at Wisdom Within Counseling can help you make a positive cycle of connection in relationships. So, call/text 860-451-9364 for family therapy in Niantic, Connecticut.
In marriage therapy and family counseling, offered at Wisdom Within Counseling in Niantic, Connecticut, the therapists help individuals, families, and couples.
Trouble communicating in your marriage or with your moody teenager?
We help all ages of people and families who have difficulty communicating reconnect and feel closer. Football may be a topic of argument. Family bonding may feel forced and like you are trying to get magnets, that repel each other, to connect. If you are feeling distant and want support feeling more intimate and bonding with your partner or your family, feel free to contact me below. I hope you enjoyed these fun ways to bond around football!
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Holistic family therapy and counseling in Southeastern Connecticut
This article was written by Katie Ziskind, Licensed Marriage Family Therapist, 500-hour Registered Yoga Therapist, is the owner and clinical director at Wisdom Within Counseling in Niantic, Connecticut. Finding a family therapist in Niantic has been very difficult until now. Katie also offers teletherapy and distance counseling. Katie Ziskind LMFT, RYT500 combines her highly effective specialties of art, yoga, music, and animal therapy alongside talk counseling. She is an expert with children, adolescents, teenagers, and the young adults. She offers therapy for teens in Niantic. Parenting sessions and couples therapy for parents challenged by their children, are also part of her practice. She is affirming and open to the LGBT community. She specializes in yoga therapy for athletic individuals who have a sports injury and have been through trauma. Contact her today by texting or calling 860-451-9364. Visit WisdomWithinCt.com
