What is LGBTQIA anyway?
First, LGBTQIA+ is an acronym for describing and supporting all people. Generally, Wisdom Within Counseling in Niantic, CT supports and welcomes all people. Also, working with an LGBT therapist in East Lyme, Connecticut can help your child gain confidence and believe in themselves. Bullying, school pressure, hazing, fear of not belonging, all play into the shame a transgender child faces daily. To note, we welcome gender-questioning, transgender, bisexual, gay, polyamorous people. Also, we are affirming and open to LGBT youth and adults. Frequently, the creative counselors work with non-binary preschoolers, children, teenagers, and young adults. Likewise, we are an ally! In this article, you will learn a handful of tips that can help you be an LGBTQIA+ ally too. Lastly, we are a group of LGBT therapists in East Lyme, Connecticut that help advocate for non-binary youth. Through art, yoga music, and animal therapies, our counselors help youth gain clarity, self-awareness, and confidence.
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LGBT children, adolescents, and transgender teenagers
For one, you may see a person is wearing nail polish and is female. But, you may never think twice. However, some males also want to be complimented for wearing nail polish. Also, they are sadly shamed by society for not being stereotypically male. For one, some men want earrings, pink hair, and wear skirts. Sometimes, children will naturally want to shop in a different gender section of the clothing store. For instance, your son, a little boy, may walk over to the girl’s section and want to wear a pink feather boa. He may also want to try on a tutu, cry when you try to cut his hair, and want to grow his hair long. Essentially, allow your child to explore the boundaries around gender expression. Further, don’t live by ancient, shaming gender stereotypes stuck in religion. So, don’t pull your child away from exploring and back to one confined area of the clothing store. If you are seeking to better understand your child’s gender questioning behaviors, call Wisdom Within Counseling. Call/Text 860-451-9364 for creative, alternative LGBT therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut.
In Southeastern Connecticut, Wisdom Within Counseling helps transgender children and gender questioning adolescents.
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It is important to embrace your child and allow them to be creative with gender expression as they understand their own gender.
In anxiety in adolescents and teenagers, lets say a male child comes out. For instance, “I have been born in the wrong body. I am a girl. Call me, Sarah.” Sometimes, transgender children will say things like that.
In Southeastern Connecticut, Wisdom Within Counseling helps transgender children and gender questioning adolescents.
Family Support Is Essential
Also, suicide rates are highest among LGBT individuals who are transgender. Not to mention, suicide rates are even specifically higher among African American transgender women. To note, since they were born biologically male, there is more muscle definition. Therefore, they naturally do not fit in as well as a small, hourglass-shaped woman. As a result, this makes trans women a more obvious target for homophobic bullying and crimes. Call/Text 860-451-9364 for creative, alternative lgbt therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut.
How can working with an LGBTQIA+ therapist help your teenager thrive?
Therefore, working with a LGBT therapist in East Lyme, Connecticut can help your teenager express emotions. For instance, anger, anxiety, and and depression have a place to go with art and creative therapies. Overall, we can help children and teenagers who are gender questioning, transgender, or non binary get clear on their orientation. Likewise, art, yoga, music, and animal therapy can help your LGBTQ teenager. Call/Text 860-451-9364 for creative, alternative lgbt therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut.
Our LGBT therapists in East Lyme, Connecticut can help create loving family acceptance. Call/Text 860-451-9364 for an appointment with a creative, LGBT therapist in East Lyme, Connecticut.
It is really important, if you are a grandma, a grandpa, teacher, professor, parent, sibling, or even cousin, that you offer unconditional support. Do not make fun or joke.
For instance, your daughter asks to goto prom with another female and you are suspicious that she is gay. In order, to help her trust that you will accept her sexual orientation, start talking about LGBT articles you’ve read in the news. Therefore, this will highlight positive qualities and great successes in the LGBT community. Also, find a movie all about help for LGBT teens. And, empowering teens to find support in a Gay Straight Alliance club (GSA). Wait for your daughter to feel like she can trust you. So, do interrogate her questioning if she is gay. She may not officially know inside of herself anyway.
Furthermore, if you are looking for an LGBT therapist in East Lyme, Connecticut Wisdom Within Counseling can help. Call/text 860-451-9364 for a phone consultation.
Remember, it is okay and fully acceptable to be transgender, bisexual, and an LGBT ally. The world needs more accepting and caring people.
Stop bullying when you see it happening. If you hear someone use, “gay,” as a joke, explain to them how some people would be really hurt and offended by that. Stand up for LGBT rights and transgender teens/individuals. Also, read books or take a course to learn proper pronouns. Just like supporting someone with special needs and a learning or physical disability, you can teach your teenager to be a friend to people who are being bullied! Call/Text 860-451-9364 for creative, alternative LGBT therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut.
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Written By Katie Ziskind, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, 500-hour Registered Yoga Therapist
A parent’s divorce can leave an adolescent frustrated and alone pulled between two yelling, arguing parents. A first break up can leave a young adult devastated where they can only think of self-harm. At Wisdom Within Counseling, the Niantic therapists offer a specialized, whole person approach. Plus, child, teen, and family therapy is available. Overall, the East Lyme therapists have expertise with children, adolescents, teens, and young adults. The animal therapy, art, painting, yoga, and music are unlike any other counseling service offered in the Southeastern Connecticut area. Overall, Wisdom Within Counseling in East Lyme, Connecticut is open and affirming to the LGBT community. As therapists, we are holistic. Katie Ziskind integrates her 500-hour yoga therapy certification with her masters and licensure in marriage and family therapy. For example, Wisdom Within Counseling offers experiential therapies of art, yoga, music, and animal therapy in sessions in addition to talk-based counseling.
At Wisdom Within Counseling, we are a group of holistic marriage and family therapists. We help all ages from preschoolers to grandparents with better relationships. For instance, we help children with ADHD learn self-regulation through movement therapies, anxious teenagers with eating disorders develop a healthy body image, distant, business-like couples recreate intimate connection, and stressed adults who have been through trauma/PTSD heal. My team and I offer traditional talk counseling, but specialize in using out-of-the-box and using creative art, yoga, music, or outdoor walk-and-talk therapies to teach emotional expression and self-confidence skills to children and young adults. Also, we are LGBTQIA+ affirming and work with non binary, transgender, and gender questioning people. Furthermore, we offer unique Saturday and Sunday availability as well as evenings until 8:45pm.
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