And, talking to your husband about his interesting wearing women’s clothes brings up fears for you?
Are you wondering if your spouse loves you still because intimacy has been decreasing?
Do you wonder if your spouse is cheating, keeping secrets, or lying?
Is your spouse questioning their sexual orientation?
Does your spouse change their clothing expression or make up?
Is your spouse non-binary, gender questioning, transgender or dress up on occasion?
Thinking about starting LGBTQ marriage counseling in Southeastern Connecticut for closeness and trust?
Right now, life is pretty stressful. And, you and your partner(s) and you aren’t getting along as you would really like. Furthermore, your personal and family life has recently changed dramatically and your partner(s) were not there for you during this sad time.
As Southeastern Connecticut LGBTQ marriage counselors, we know that when your intimate relationship isn’t going as you want, life becomes very hard.
On the other hand, feeling a deep connection to your partner makes all the difference in having a good or bad day. Moreover, of course as the ancient saying goes, someone else doesn’t make your happiness. However, LGBTQ marriage counseling can truly improve your relationship, communication, and even your sex life.
How Can Marriage Counseling Help Gender-Questioning Clients?
To start, you may feel marginalized by society. Many therapists also consider talking openly about sex taboo. But sex, sexuality, and intimacy are a huge part of your relationship. Many therapists become embarrassed, but the team of LGBTQ marriage therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling in Niantic talk about everything important to you. Further, marriage counseling can help you if you are questioning your gender.
LGBTQ couples therapy helps you get in touch and clear on your relationship goals
Overall, holistic counseling can help you find clarity, get in touch with yourself, and love and accept yourself as you are. Plus, at Wisdom Within Counseling, you can choose to integrate yoga, art, music, animals, and outdoor therapies alongside your talk counseling sessions.
What is LGBTQ couples counseling in Southeastern Connecticut all about?
Therefore, we accept all LGBTQ couples and talk openly about sex therapy. Our team of LGBTQ marriage therapists openly and warmly discuss LGBTQIA+, sexuality, sexual orientation, kink, and polyamory, open relationship boundaries, and transgender issues. Further, we get to have an open conversation and talk with you about about your past sexual experiences, past traumas that may be playing a role, your current sexual needs and desires.
What is different and unique about holistic, creative LGBTQ couples therapy?
More, at Wisdom Within Counseling in Niantic, Connecticut, LGBTQ therapy includes holistic, positive coping skills for self-confidence. You can use creative art to express you inner feelings. And, you can do partner yoga poses to relax and connect together.
Also, art therapy and yoga therapy help your mind release worries and fears from the past.
From there, you can be open hearted to healthy relationships. Or, LGBTQ couples therapy may include a guided love and trust mediation. In general, LGBTQ therapy Southeastern Connecticut goes beyond only talk counseling. In addition, the creative therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling in Niantic, Connecticut offer art, yoga, music, animals, and outdoor therapies too.
To begin, click the button below for a phone consultation to work with a queer affirming therapist for a healthier romantic relationship.
How can LGBTQ marriage counseling improve your communication and help you feel deep connection?
Now, LGBTQ therapy Southeastern Connecticut can improve communication skills. Right now, when you fight, you are angry, hurting, guilty, and in a shame cycle of disconnecting. But, in time, LGBTQ therapy Southeastern Connecticut can teach you and your partner(s) how to love more deeply. Communication can be confusing when someone is yelling or angry.
In couples therapy, you’ll learn techniques to communicate that you hear what your partner is saying to you. So, they feel heard, and you feel like you truly understand their needs.
To add, LGBTQ therapy Southeastern Connecticut helps you move from dysfunctional communication to positive, loving communication. So, from LGBTQ therapy Southeastern Connecticut, you can truly have a meaningful, trusting relationship.
What exactly can we talk about together in holistic LGBTQ therapy Southeastern Connecticut?
Together, during your LGBTQ couples therapy in Niantic, we can work together to negotiate sexual curiosities in the LGBTQIA+ community, sexual functioning, rekindling desire, understanding satisfaction, and even improve your knowledge of male and female anatomy. When couples seek counseling, the problem can be related to communication. But, the problem can also be more physical and related to sexual function.
Beyond Monogamy, Worries and Fears in LGBTQIA+ Couples Counseling
Sadly, in America, only monogamy is what is normal. At Wisdom Within Counseling in Niantic, all types of relationships are welcome. However, the marriage and family therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling in Niantic know that couples come in different shapes, genders, ages, and sizes. And, love is nothing like what you see in Hollywood movies. To add, polyamory is when multiple people are in love. And, polyamorous people each create a unique set of boundaries around them. Or, you may be having an affair and need to talk to a therapist outside of your personal friends and family. To note, the therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling in Niantic will never judge you. Love is crazy and we understand you want guidance, a listening ear, and that you are the expert on your own life.
Text/Call us at (860) 451-9364 to get started in holistic therapy today.
You are in a marriage, but now feel attraction for the same gender.
Or, say you are a woman and you married a man twenty years ago. However, now that your children are in high school, you are questioning your sexuality. Right now, you no longer have feelings of attraction to your spouse. Now, you are developing feelings for the same gender. You wonder… Why is this this happening to me? Can I love my husband and love a woman too? What if my husband found out? Would he leave me? Do I want to leave him to be with a woman? What will my children think? So, these issues are all totally okay. Further, as a team of LGBTQ therapists in Southeastern Connecticut, we accept you just as your are. And, we welcome LGBTQ marriages at Wisdom Within Counseling in Niantic.
Are you questioning your sexual orientation?
Further, in Southeastern Connecticut, LGBTQ marriage counseling includes elements of looking at your sexual orientation. Right now, you are feelings like you marriage isn’t working. For one, you are wondering if you are even in love with your partner. And, for two, you are wondering if something inside of you has changed since first getting married. In Niantic, Connecticut, at Wisdom Within Counseling, our creative therapists offer LGBTQ marriage counseling with a holistic twist. For example, the yoga therapy practice of meditation can help you gain inner clarity on your sexual orientation.
To begin, click the button below to book a phone consult for LGBTQIA+ queer affirming couples therapy.
Would you like to courageously come out to your spouse through LGBTQ marriage counseling sessions?
Furthermore, revealing your same-sex attraction, gender identity, and sexual orientation to your romantic partner or spouse can take months of planning in therapy. For instance, if you and your spouse had your wedding in a Catholic church, you may feel guilty. Not to mention, we help you overcome cultural shame, guilt, loss.
Instead, we help you begin transforming these feelings into pride, empowering energy, and courage.
At Wisdom Within Counseling in Southeastern Connecticut, our team of holistic therapists, proudly offer LGBTQ marriage counseling. All parts of you are amazing, but there can be a lot of shame and guilt associated with religious backgrounds too.
How can meditation, a mindfulness yoga therapy technique, benefit LGBTQ marriage counseling sessions?
Likewise, meditation in LGBTQ marriage counseling in Southeastern Connecticut helps you connect with your mind, body, and spirit. In LGBTQ marriage counseling sessions, you can learn to meditate together for calmness. Then, in misunderstandings when you are upset, you can use your positive coping skills of meditating. Further, guided relaxing meditation in LGBTQ marriage counseling offer peacefulness that helps you develop a long-lasting marriage.
Lastly, meditation in LGBTQ marriage counseling sessions in Southeastern Connecticut promote self-soothing, a positive coping skill for self-regulation.
Further, you can use the ability to reflect and observe yourself, learned in meditation, to implement respectful language and communicate your feelings in misunderstandings.
All LGBTQIA+ couples therapy worries, concerns, and issues welcome
For instance, you may have found your husband wearing your clothes and feel a number of emotions. And, talking to your husband about his interesting wearing women’s clothes brings up fears for you. Your brain races… Does he still love me? How long has be been hiding this? Is he cheating? Why does he wear women’s clothes? Is he transgender or does he just like to dress up on occasion? Again, no problem is too big or too small. The team of LGBTQ therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling in Niantic, Connecticut, totally understand your feelings.
To begin, book a phone consultation for LGBTQ couples therapy today.
How Does LGBTQ+ Marriage Therapy Differ From Counseling For Straight Couples?
If you and your partner are an LGBTQ+ couple, you might be pondering this question yourself. To add, not every LGBTQ+ couple needs therapy, just like straight couples. However, when you and your partner are in distress, in you are arguing over LGBTQ+ issues, the therapists in Niantic are here to help.
What do LGBTQ couples fight about?
Just like straight couples, LGBTQ couples argue about money, finances, children, education, work, sex, desire, trust, betrayal, extended family, and household chores. And, straight couples also argue about gender expression like like LGBTQ couples. Moreover, LGBTQ couples and straight couples alike need positive coping skills to identify feelings, process emotions calmly, and then release. Again, the fear, resentment, betrayal, loss, grief, healing, pain, fight, hope, inclusion, and confusion are all welcome.
Affirming LGBTQ+ couples therapy embraces all parts of you
Similarly, LGBTQIA+ couples seek marriage counseling because they are feeling distant. And, in addition to the distance, there may be a series of trust issues that have evolved over time. Likewise, marriage counseling in Niantic for LGBTQIA+ couples helps sort through the variety of layers that cause your frustrating fights. Together, you and your holistic, LGBTQ+ couples therapist in Niantic openly and honestly discuss lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender.
To start, book a phone consult to speak about your non-binary and gender-questioning thoughts.
Katie Ziskind, LMFT, RYT500, mentions in the media
In October 2018, Katie Ziskind, was quoted in an article on male body image issues, here. “Acceptance is coming to a place of contentment and serenity with whatever’s happening,” says Katie Ziskind, owner of Wisdom Within Counseling. “It’s an internal head space you have to come to in order to make a change. When you accept the self, you get to this ‘Okay-ness.’ My past is okay. Right now is okay. When you switch to a different perspective, positive things come out of that.”
Why do people seek LGBTQ marriage counseling?
Are You Coming Out To Your Partner?
First, coming out as LGBTQ+ to yourself requires a level of education and self-acceptance. But, when you think about coming out as bisexual or gay to your family, it can be daunting. To start, your grandma has always loved your dearly. But, you are worried that if you share your sexual orientation with her, she may reject you. And, you have heard your aunt make homophobic comments in the past, so you’re afraid of what she will think of you. So, having the coming out talk requires the support and expertise of a professional LGBTQ couples therapist.
To begin, book a phone consult to begin building closeness, love, and better communication in LGBTQ couples therapy
Dating, Relationship Boundaries, Open Relationships, & Jealousy
These days, navigating the exhilarating, exciting, and exhausting dating world can bring both happiness and sadness. When it comes to LGBTQ marriage counseling, at times, couples open their relationship. When you open your marriage, you need a LGBTQ couples therapist in Southeastern Connecticut to help you negotiate this tender process. So, our team of therapists work with a variety of LGBTQ marriage counseling topics. And, these include: dating/break ups, divorce, boundaries around monogamy or polyamory, engagement, fear of commitment, children, moving in together, learning how to live together, parenting, and sex drive.
Why is picking an LGBTQ couples therapist Southeastern Connecticut so important?
Likewise, picking an LGBTQ therapist is very important, so you don’t experience shame. It is essential that in your LGBTQ marriage, you work with an LGBTQ therapist to iron out the rules, boundaries, contracts, and limitations if you want an open or polyamorous relationship. Sometimes, traditional marriage therapists focus on monogamy.
How to create healthy love and positive relationships in LGBTQ couples therapy in Southeastern Connecticut?
At Wisdom Within Counseling, LGBTQ couples therapy in Southeastern Connecticut is about helping you create healthy love. For instance, we will never tell you why time of relationship is best for you, but rather, you’ll learn what feels healthy for yourself. Simply put, jealousy impacts straight, monogamous, polyamorous, and LGBTQ couples alike. Finally, know that when your girlfriend or boyfriend is besties with their exes, any human would be triggered. Let’s sort through these feelings together at Wisdom Within Counseling in Niantic. Overall, LGBTQ couples therapy in Southeastern Connecticut helps you and your partner create healthy love!
LGBTQ Family Interactions and Parenting
In addition, in LGBTQ marriage counseling in Niantic, we help you discuss children, parenting, and co-parenting techniques. In order to avoid high conflict situations at home due to different parenting styles, LGBTQ marriage counseling in Niantic can help you and your partner have important discussions calmly and respectfully.
At Wisdom Within Counseling in Niantic, our team of holistic therapists often work with LGBTQ youth, LGBTQ families, and LGBTQ parents.
Finally, LGBTQ marriage counseling is a great way to model positive conflict resolution skills. Additionally, from sessions, you will naturally teach your children healthy communication skills and how to create a long-term, meaningful relationship. Then, they will develop positive relationship skills that will carry them through their teenage years, college, and beyond into their own marriage one day.
Where do you offer LGBTQIA+ queer and transgender therapy?
We offer in person and video LGBTQIA, non-binary, queer and transgender affirming counseling to Connecticut towns including Fairfield, Cos Cob, Darien, Colebrook, Woodbridge, Old Greenwich, Rye, Watertown, Greenwich, Southport, Cornwall, Easton, Darien, Byram, New Canann, Essex, Weston, Barkhamsted, Fenwick, Hamburg, East Haddam, Norwalk, East Lyme, Simsbury, Westport, Redding, Greenwich, Middletown, Bloomfield, Stamford, Washington, Madison, Monroe, Glastonbury, Ivoryton, Washington, Danbury, New Haven, Bethlehem, Morris, Middlebury, Sharon, Kent, West Hartford, Colchester, Columbia, Milford, New Milford, Griswold, Guilford, Tolland, Stonington, Goshen, Salisbury, Killingworth, Bloomfield, Rye, Plymouth, Enfield, Lyme, Madison, Clinton, Litchfield, Warren, Avon, Wilton, Bridgewater, Chester, Deep River, Hartford, Colchester, Old Lyme, Deep River, Mystic, Ridgefield, Shelton, and West Hartford. We also offer counseling to residents of Massachusetts and Florida.
