Our team offers marriage and family therapy in Connecticut at Wisdom Within Counseling. In Southeastern Connecticut, we offer creative, holistic, enriching in-person therapy, as well as Telehealth video sessions for children, teens, adolescents, and couples. If you reside in the state of Connecticut and want positive coping skills, you are in the right place. Our marriage and family therapy office is located by the shoreline and beach in Niantic, Connecticut. We offer playful and creative therapies including art therapy, drama therapy, yoga therapy, music therapy, nature and outdoor sessions. Young children can benefit from play therapy for a language beyond words, and animal therapy.
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Are you looking for a creative approach to therapy for your child?
Maybe you want to try a holistic approach to therapy for yourself. Wisdom Within Counseling emphasizes the connection between the mind, body, and soul to help clients heal from adverse life traumas.
After big life transitions like having a baby, divorce, or loss of a parent, you can build a toolbox for self-love and relaxation.
Pick from traditional sitting and talking, modeling clay, painting, drama therapy, art, mindfulness yoga, meditation, and creative therapies to learn positive coping tools.
If you feel perfectionistic or overwhelmed and want better relationships, one of our holistic marriage and family therapists can teach you relationship tools.
Our holistic marriage and family therapists are also trained in how to help you build a healthy lifestyle and positive distress tolerance skills.
Learn mindfulness tools to handle chaotic life changes, loss, family stress, parenting, in-laws, and relationships with confidence.
In counseling at Wisdom Within, you can gain holistic tools to sort through your emotions like anger and anxiety vs. holding on to the negative emotions of others. Learn to attract healthy, nurturing friendships through holistic therapies.
Our Specialities
Here at Wisdom Within Counseling, we specialize in supporting clients of all backgrounds. Our team is skilled in helping clients with eating disorder treatment, body image issues, trauma and PTSD, grief and loss, anxiety, depression, LGBTQIA+ and transgender affirming counseling, women’s issues, child therapy, marriage and couples therapy, and more! Keep reading below about each of out specialities in East Lyme, Connecticut. We offer counseling to families in Florida, Connecticut, and Massachusetts.
Art Therapy
Art, painting, clay, and glitter gel pens in therapy benefit people of all ages. For adolescents, art and tie dye can be a creative outlet. As well, art therapy can help improve communication and concentration skills. Art, painting, and creative therapies offer a language beyond words. When your teenager doesn’t walk to talk, painting and making something out of clay can be a walk to express.
Creative painting and art therapies in East Lyme, Connecticut improve inner peace, self-esteem, confidence, and self-awareness.
Through creative emotional expression and painting, you and your family can feel a sense of connection. Each time you come in your counseling, you have choices and options of sitting and doing art, or talking. We have a variety of art supplies for you to choose from.
Art therapies can be your healthy outlet for stress, anxiety, and frustration.
One day, you may want to paint. Another day, you may want to sit and talk. Painting can be a wonderful way to let go of emotions that are stuck on the inside and in your mind. Anxiety often creates tension, fears about the future, and even frustration. It might feel like there are many things outside of your control. Sometimes, you feel upset, overwhelmed, or even hurt and need a healthy coping outlet like art therapy.
Additionally, art and creative painting in counseling can be fun for families and a playful way for couples to reconnect.
Painting is an additional language to words, and offers creative expression. Sometimes, you want to take your art home. Other times, you may want to leave your art at the office. In art therapy, you don’t have to preform or make it perfect. It is very different than an art class. At Wisdom Within Counseling, painting, using clay, and creative outlets support self-love and self-compassion. Art therapies at Wisdom Within Counseling can help reduce feelings of isolation.
To begin, click the button below to book your free phone consult for holistic, creative marriage and family therapy in Connecticut.
Yoga Therapy
Also, yoga therapy is a holistic counseling option in addition to traditional sitting and talking. Of course, you can always sit on a comfy couch and talk. However, yoga therapy can offer mind-body relaxation skills and increases flexibility and balance. As well, yoga therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut at Wisdom Within Counseling helps you build strength. Strength is emotional in terms of resilience, leadership, and inner peace. And, strength you can build is also physical with your muscles, bone density, and balance. In yoga therapy, you can talk unlike a group yoga class.
When certain traumatic or painful memories arise, you can openly share them with your therapist.
Your yoga therapist may also offer gentle stretching, mindfulness meditation, and other self-care tools. Essentially, yoga therapy supports you as a whole person, no matter your past losses.
Yoga therapy is a speciality PTSD and trauma therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut at Wisdom Within Counseling
Many times, after uncertain losses and trauma events, you feel helpless to more bad things happening all over again.
Yoga therapy is especially helpful if you have severe losses, traumas, or feel afraid of bad things happening all over again. In yoga therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling, you get to have control of your body and life again. With the tools yoga therapy provides, you can feel grounded, calm, and centered in your journey of life. Did you know that meditation and yoga also improve heart health. Yoga therapy can treat physical issues and can ease back pain. As well, yoga therapy teaches to skills to use in life to reduce stress, manage anxiety, and improve your well-being.
Adolescent and Teen Therapy
Teenagers these days are struggling with anxiety and self-harm.
Your adolescent might be facing fears, have anxiety about going to school, face sexual harassment in the hallway, and be figuring out dating. Your teenager might have peers who like them, need help talking about how to set boundaries with friends and saying ”No.” As well, many teenagers have friends who are suicidal and tend to be the caretaker, when in fact they need a place to unload.
The pressure of getting straight A’s, doing sports, and looking perfect can be a lot for an adolescent. Your adolescent have trouble sleeping, troubles concentrating, low self-esteem, depression, and body image issues. As well, your adolescent say, ”I’m so fat,” or ”My butt is too small or too big.”
In the mirror, your adolescent or teenager may criticize their body and need a counselor to help them believe in themselves.
Developing self-love takes times in therapy. Our team at Wisdom Within Counseling is a group of marriage and family therapists in Connecticut and would love to help you or adolescent teenager over video or in person.
We help depressed, self-harming teenagers build positive coping strategies, so that they can be emotionally prepared for independence and college life.
To begin, click the button below to book your free phone consult for holistic, creative marriage and family therapy in Connecticut.
Eating Disorder Therapy in Connecticut
Now, whether you are worried about getting fat or you have shame and guilt after eating, Wisdom Within Counseling specializes with eating disorders.
Eating disorders can look different for each person. However, when you have an eating disorder or your loved one has an eating disorder, you need professional therapy.
Wisdom Within Counseling in East Lyme, Connecticut specializes with eating disorders. You might obsess about how many calories you are eating in a day and restrict your calories.
Do you have a love-hate relationship with food and your body?
Additionally, you might have binge eating disorder where you eat three meals worth in one sitting. You may also have bulimia where you force yourself to throw up after eating a meal out of shame and guilt. Shame, guilt, anxiety, and fear are the emotions that are always on your mind around eating and food. When you have an eating disorder, the team At Wisdom Within Counseling and help you develop a healthy body image.
You or your teenager can start to create a loving relationship with food and nurture yourself through holistic counseling.
Child Therapy
For one, your child may struggle with thought fixation. They might obsess over a certain thought, which creates problems at school and at home. As well, children benefit from counseling when they are going through grief and loss. Maybe, a grandparent, a close friend, or even a beloved pet is now gone. Your child may have strange questions about loss, death, and where people go when they die. Other times, children have anxiety that causes problems with sleeping, concentrating, and making friends. Your child may struggle to read social behaviors, understand emotions, and need help with play therapies.
We use play therapies in Niantic, Connecicut to help preschoolers and anxious children learn how to express big emotions in healthy ways.
Children may have emotions that feel powerful over them. A child might be calm in one moment and then angry in the next. Before they even realize it, they are running off, yelling, or having a meltdown.
Through Play Therapies in East Lyme, Connecticut, Your Child Can Safely Express Their Feelings
Play Therapy
Child centered play therapy in Connecticut helps children increase emotional understanding. Just like children go to school, play therapy can be a safe place to process anger, loss, and even know what to do to make friends. Children need help understanding different emotions and how to cope with anger and frustration.
Plus, play therapists in Connecticut know how to step into a frustrated child’s world and empathize with them.
We use puppets, art, storytelling, books, and what you see above. Stuffed feelings help children understand emotions, and talk about times when they have felt uncomfortable or scared. All emotions become okay and children learn ways to release them.
To begin, click the button below to book your free phone consult for holistic, creative marriage and family therapy in Connecticut.
Walk and Talk Therapy
Furthermore, Niantic, Connecticut beachside sidewalk and talk therapy provide movement as an outlet for anxiety.
If you have anxiety or depression, walking and talking in therapy can be a healthy coping tool. You and your holistic therapist can get fresh air. There are many nice, outdoor walking areas near our counseling office by the ocean. As well, for virtual walking sessions, you and your therapist can still get outside and nature in your local areas on video.
Likewise, you get to learn a positive coping tool right in session.
For many teenagers and adults, sitting and talking is boring. Perhaps, you or your teenager need to move around to feel better. Essentially, walking and talking in therapy is a form of joyful movement. Walking can be a great release for tension, anxiety, worry, and anger. Breathing in the fresh, salty, ocean air can be a practice of mindfulness. For some, walking and talking along the Niantic Bay Boardwalk is the perfect change of scenery. Right in counseling in Niantic, Connecticut, your teen can release frustration, anxiety, and anger from their school day.
Maybe, you are looking for something alternative to sitting in a traditional talk “couch” setting.
As well, walking and talking with your therapist in Niantic, Connecticut helps promote circulation. If you have a job where you sit all day, walk and talk therapy can be a great way to move energy in a positive direction. Talking and walking also helps to release PTSD symptoms and trauma memories.
To note, walk and talk therapy creates bilateral stimulation, which resets trauma responses.
Walking also helps with trauma and PTSD recovery. On that note, the bilateral stimulation reboot your nervous system in your brain and helps you get in the present moment. Walking and talking in counseling can be a coping tool that can help you release anger and frustration outside of session. Wisdom Within Counseling teaches positive lifestyle skills to help you feel better about yourself.
LGBTQIA+, Transgender Affirming and Queer Couples Therapy in Connecticut
Whether your adolescent has come out as non-binary or your spouse is now bisexual, Wisdom Within Counseling can help.
Our team specializes in queer, transgender, and LGBTQIA+ marriage and family therapy. Your child may be questioning their gender or asking to shop in the opposite gender section of the clothing store. As well, if you child is gay or pansexual, they may be bullied and have lower self-esteem.
Sexual orientation evolutions can cause your marriage to feel chaotic. After some time together, your partner or spouse may be questioning their gender. For some, this comes as a surprise or a scare. Sometimes, gender questioning feelings or coming out as bisexual can cause conflicts, fights, and tension. It might feel like your spouse was hiding this all along. In LGBTQIA+ couples therapy in Connecticut, you and your spouse can have an affirming therapist help you both feel safe talking. A variety of emotions may come up like jealousy, fear, worry, and excitement.
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Cross dressing and feminine gender expression in LGBTQIA+ couples therapy in Connecticut
Also, if your spouse is now cross dressing, or more feminine in their gender expression, you may want to talk to a therapist. Talking about gender questioning feelings, cross dressing, and LGBTQIA+ exploration in couples therapy creates safety.
Essentially, all the intense emotions like shame, guilt, anger, or sadness can arise from changes in LGBTQIA+, sexual orientation, or gender expression.
For some couples, LGBTQIA+ and queer marriage counseling can provide a safe place to talk about an open marriage. When one person is bisexual, some couples choose a consensual open marriage. However, this process of consent, boundaries, and what feels safe takes the help of a professional LGBTQIA+ couples therapist in Connecticut. At Wisdom Within Counseling, we help LGBTQIA+, transgender, and queer couples who deeply love each other, but need help with big emotions. Talking about sexual orientation, cross dressing, or gender expression can lead to conflict at home. This way, couples therapy can be a set aside time to have important conversations and learn conflict resolution skills.
We are transgender affirming and love helping LGBTQIA+ expressive and gender diverse children, teens and couples in Connecticut.
Holistic Couples Therapy
Wanting a safe palce to talk about sex, sexual pleasure, orgasming, and sexual dysfunctions?
Needing marriage counseling to heal from trust issues, secret keeping, or lying?
Couples therapy helps improve communication, build meaningful connection, and gain playfulness.
In Connecticut, marriage and couples therapy provides a safe space to gain better communication and overcome conflict. You might have issues that cause tension and conflict such as finances, in-laws, and parenting. Additionally, your therapist can teach you both about emotional validation. Couples therapy in Connecticut teaches skills for building trust and commitment. Many times, distant, fighting couples don’t learn how to be emotionally intimate or have good communication. Conflicts arise from poor communication as well as affairs, betrayal, cheating, lying, and secret keeping.
Secret keeping, lying, and anger are sabotaging behaviors can damage your marriage.
As well, we help distant couples reconnect and develop similar hobbies. In counseling, couples learn to create create a shared values of love and meaningful connection. We specialize with couples after infidelity as well as LGBTQIA+ affirming couples therapy.
To begin, click the button below to book your free phone consult.
Music Therapy For Confidence, Emotional Expression, and Self-Acceptance
As well, music therapy provides all ages of people with a language beyond words.
You and your child can learn to express anger and have healthy outlets. Banging on the drum, using a shaker, or making a sound can be a great way to express emotions. Also, listening to music in the session and making playlists are great anxiety coping tools. Making sounds is a language beyond words. Even if you enjoy talking about your feelings, music therapy in Connecticut and help you express your emotions. Which ones you may ask? well, difficult emotions after loss and trauma like anxiety and anger. In multitude of ways, music provides depression relief.
You can feel happier and more joyful after music therapy in Connecticut.
Drama Therapy
For starters, drama therapy is another creative therapy. If you have tried traditional talk therapy and didn’t like it, you may want something alternative. So, drama therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut promotes positive behavioral changes. Maybe, you find you are doing something negative like drinking too much alcohol or getting really angry. Or, you experience panic attacks that prevent you from going to work or school.
Also, anxiety can lead to self-sabotaging behaviors like self-harm, self-injury, or impulsive behaviors.
So, drama therapy can help improve interpersonal relationship skills. From drama therapy, you can attract healthier friendships and people in your life. To add, you can integrate physical and emotional well-being. Drama therapy is a mind-body, holistic therapy that supports your whole self. You can feel a sense of personal growth and gain self-awareness. Drama therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling can be playful and improve your overall quality of life.
We offer video and phone therapy to Connecticut towns.
You may enjoy video counseling if you are in Farmington, Fairfield, Bolton, Bloomfield, Weston, Wilton, Cos Cob, Darien, Woodbridge, Old Greenwich, Rye, Greenwich, Ridgefield, Simsbury, Southport, Easton, New Canaan, Avon, Litchfield, Newtown, Westport, Madison, Stamford, Milford, Stamford , Naugatuck, Bristol, Norwalk, Danbury, Bozrah, Shelton, Middlebury, South Glastonbury, Bridgeport, Trumbull, Stratford, Sherman, Georgetown, Redding, Sandy Hook, Monroe, Glastonbury, West Hartford, and Granby. On the other hand, you may like to travel for in person counseling if you reside in Middletown, Griswold, Norwich, East Lyme, Mystic, Groton, Niantic, Old Lyme, Lyme, Waterford, Fenwick, Old Saybrook, New London, Clinton, Branford, Guilford, and Essex, Connecticut.
Wisdom Within Counseling offers marriage and family therapy all over Connecticut
Fairfield County
We help children, teens, and couples in Fairfield County, which includes Bethel, Bridgeport, Brookfield, Danbury, Darien, Easton, Fairfield, Greenwich, Monroe, New Canaan, New Fairfield, Newtown, Norwalk, Redding, Ridgefield, Shelton, Sherman, Southport, Stamford, Stratford, Trumbull, Weston, Westport, and Wilton, Connecticut.
Hartford County
As well, we help children, teens, and couples in Hartford County including Avon, Berlin, Bloomfield, Bristol, Burlington, Canton, Hartford, East Windsor, Enfield, Farmington, Glastonbury, Granby, Hartland, Manchester, Marlborough, New Britain, Newington, Plainville, Rocky Hill, Simsbury, South Windsor, Southington, Suffield, West Hartford, Wethersfield, Windsor Locks, and Windsor, Connecticut.
Litchfield County
Additionally, the team of marriage and family therapists help families in Litchfield County in the following towns Bantam, Barkhamsted, Bethlehem, Bridgewater, Canaan, Colebrook, Cornwall, Goshen, Harwinton, Kent, Lakeville, Litchfield, New Hartford, New Milford, Norfolk, Northfield, Morris, Plymouth, Roxbury, Salisbury, Sharon, Terryville, Thomaston, Torrington, Warren, Washington, Watertown, Winchester, Winsted, and Woodbury, Connecticut.
Middlesex County
In Middlesex County, Wisdom Within Counseling supports children, teens, and couples in Chester, Clinton, Cromwell, Deep River, Durham, East Haddam, East Hampton, Essex, Haddam, Killingworth, Middlefield, Middletown, Old Saybrook, Portland, and Westbrook, Connecticut.
New Haven County
Furthermore, we support families in New Haven County in Ansonia, Beacon Falls, Bethany, Branford, Cheshire, Derby, East Haven, Guilford, Hamden, Madison, Meriden, Middlebury, Milford, Naugatuck, New Haven, North Haven, Orange, Oxford, Prospect, Seymour, Southbury, Wallingford, Waterbury, West Haven, Wolcott, and Woodbridge, Connecticut.
New London County
Locally, in New London County, Wisdom Within Counseling offers marriage and family therapy to children, teens, and couples in Bozrah, Colchester, Franklin, Griswold, Groton, Lebanon, Ledyard, Lisbon, Lyme, Montville, New London, North Stonington, Norwich, Preston, Salem, Sprague, Stonington, Voluntown, and Waterford, Connecticut.
Tolland County
In Tolland County, Wisdom Within Counseling helps families in Andover, Bolton, Columbia, Coventry, Ellington, Hebron, Mansfield, Somers, Stafford, Tolland, Union, Vernon, and Willington, Connecticut.
Windham County
Lastly, we help families in Windham County in Ashford, Brooklyn, Canterbury, Chaplin, Eastford, Hampton, Killingly, Plainfield, Pomfret, Putnam, Scotland, Sterling, Thompson, Windham, and Woodstock, Connecticut.
