We are a team of holistic therapists who love helping people thrive.
In Niantic, Connecticut, we are a team of holistic, creative therapists. Further, the Wisdom Within Counseling Team specializes with anxious children, distant teens, lonely young adults. Furthermore, we help young adults learning to date set healthy boundaries. And, our marriage counselors help disconnected couples rekindle love after betrayal in their relationship. So, look no further for a Niantic, Connecticut marriage and family therapist.
Meet Shelby, Drama Therapist For Families
Shelby loves using expressive arts and specializes in drama therapy. She helps middle schoolers, adolescents, and high schoolers using drama. Often times, when it is hard to talk about a challenging emotion like anger or anxiety directly, drama therapy can bring a playfulness that allows an individual to express themselves. Also, drama therapy can improve mental health, provide personal growth and can increase confidence. You can find life meaning through drama therapy because it is active and involves the mind and body.
Meet Peyton, Creative Music Therapist
Peyton uses music and creative, expressive arts to help children, adolescents, adults and their families. Music can provide a language for building communication skills. Peyton’s specialty is music therapy that incorporates using music in order to meet social and relationship goals in a safe and calm way. Music therapy provides a creative and expressive space to aid in making therapy feel even a little more comfortable and fun. Music can be used in a variety of different ways, such as songwriting, lyric analysis, active listening or active playing and improvisation, to help with self-expression and coping with symptoms.
Meet Chelsea, Marriage and Family Therapist
Chelsea focuses on adolescents as well as premarital couples. She brings a creative and nurturing approach when it comes to teaching children how to manage anxiety. Chelsea incorporates painting, art, and loves helping parents and children work together. She also helps young adults navigate relationship boundaries and feel stronger after a breakup.
Meet Nikki, Adolescent, Adult, Relationship and LGBTQIA+ Therapist
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Adolescent, Adult, LGBTQIA+ Couples, and Individual Therapist
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Nikki’s specialities include gender, sexuality, LGBTQIA+, marginalized populations, Eating disorders, adolescents and teenagers 10-20 y/o, Healthy body image. Nikki is insurance reimbursable.
Nikki uses a gender affirming approach and focuses on helping her clients develop a healthy body image. Nikki works with adolescents and young adults needing help loving themselves after eating issues, anorexia, binge-eating, and purging. She offers body positivity, dialectical behavioral therapy, creative therapy, in person and video therapy. If you find inner conflicts and anxiety arise around eating, Nikki specializes in eating disorder therapy as well as LGBTQIA+ affirming counseling. She loves helping gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender youth and adults. As teenagers date, Nikki explores what it means to be pansexual, bisexual, gay, gender non-conforming, and gender expressive. She works with couples who want to have a safe place to discuss gender and sexuality.
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Meet Karen, Marriage and Family Therapist
Karen’s specialities include marriage and family therapy, trauma informed child therapy, anxiety in adults, middle schoolers, spirituality. Karen is Insurance reimbursable.
Karen has a spiritual counseling background of over fifteen years and loves to help all ages. She has experience counseling middle schoolers, adolescents, and tweens. She offers both video counseling sessions as well as in person counseling. Bringing a positive perspective and empowerment, she is eager to help support you calmly overcome and work through life’s changes.
Meet Stephanie, Marriage and Family Therapist
Stephanie focuses with children, teens and couples. She brings a playful, creative approach to helping families. Stephanie loves working with children who have stopped talking due to anxiety. Also, she specializes with children who have selective mutism. She specializes with children who have selective mutism and have stopped talking out of anxiety. With adults, Stephanie helps with boundaries, self-worth, relationship support, navigating expectations, and removing gender roles. In her work with couples, Stephanie is LGBTQIA+ affirming and loves working with clients around their sexual orientation and working with same sex couples.
Katie Ziskind, Owner, Wisdom Within Counseling Team Therapist
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We offer in person and online counseling sessions.
What makes the Wisdom Within Counseling Team in Niantic, CT different and holistic?
To begin, talk therapy alone doesn’t work because a child or teenager often feels guilty. Now, when a child feels like the family’s problem, they internalize shame and guilt. So, our team of Niantic therapists use creative, art, yoga, music, and outdoor walk and talk sessions to encourage positive growth! Specializing, children, teenagers and young adults get to choose from painting, tie dye, clay, yoga, walking by the beach. Overall, therapy is personalized.
What Do We Do at Wisdom Within Counseling?
Overall, we support growth through self-confidence, creativity, and leadership. For one, your frustrated child or distant teenager can choose from art, yoga, music, animal, and outdoor therapies. On that note, holistic, positive therapies provide connection to mind, body, and spirit.
Niantic therapists who use art, yoga and outdoor walk and talk therapies for self esteem
Additionally, all the positive coping skills learned in session are a foundation for self-care, empathy, and lifelong social emotional wellness. Overall, our East Lyme counselors help your whole family to function better!
Support For Your Whole Family From The Wisdom Within Counseling Team in Niantic, Connecticut
Looking for a creative, alternative, holistic Niantic therapist to help your child or young adult? Or, a Niantic therapist for couples counseling?
Likewise, you and your partner can use skills learn in couple sessions to stop frustrating, vicious fights and instead build trust, feel connected, and rekindle desire. Read about help for distant couples, here, and therapy for high conflict couples, here. Read about holistic marriage and family therapy using outdoor, walk and talk sessions (here), yoga therapy, music, and art at
Looking for a teen and young adult focused Niantic therapist?
Well, on you hunt for a Niantic therapist, look no further. At Wisdom Within Counseling, you’ll be scheduled with a creative, holistic, artsy Niantic therapist online through telehealth or face to face. In your sessions with your Niantic therapist, you can do yoga for anxiety or go for a walk outside in the sun for depression. Also, you can paint and do art to let go of trauma and pain without talking.
What Does The Wisdom Within Counseling Team Say?
We love using yoga therapy and movement therapies to help high energy children and high conflict couples learn how to create meaningful relationships and emotional connections. Preschoolers, toddlers, children, and older children with communication disorders use a language beyond words, such as art, music, and play therapies to talk and release.
Break ups are hard. A session with a Niantic therapist can provide comfort and security.
First off, overcoming a heartbreak or learning to date can be really hard alone. So, you and your therapist get to do it together! As well, we love helping young adults looking to reconnect, figure out love, and reach relationship goals. Lastly, when young couples experience relaxation together trust and bonding improves. From couples therapy, family life and marital communication improve.
Seeking a local, holistic, LGBTQIA+ affirming, calming, Niantic therapist? You’re in the right place!
Further, learn more about how we help children in play therapy and adolescents. For instance, events including bullying, a move, changing schools, parent’s divorce, blending families impact children emotionally. Overall, our unique and different therapies increase social-emotional communication and build self-esteem, here.
Also, we are open 7 days of the week for appointments. Also, creative art promotes anxiety management. Further, yoga therapy helps with physical releases of stress. Also, music, animals, walking therapies outdoors help children with autism express empathy and gain social skills.At Wisdom Within Counseling, Katie Ziskind created a team of holistic therapists to help your whole family connect together. From counseling, you have a calm, peaceful space to feel accepted and understood. LGBTQIA+ youth, adults, and couples welcome.
In counseling, we teach children with ADHD, self-harming teens, and distant couples skills to express emotions and create a positive, healthy life.
Recommendations as a Niantic therapist for children, teenagers, couples, and young adults
Well, as an adolescent and teen specialist, we recommend weekly therapy sessions. And, the weekly sessions are for your adolescent individually. Also, monthly parent only sessions, which do not include your child are available. However, they help your child’s therapist learn about their school and family life. Lastly, adolescents and teenagers benefit from having a trusting relationship to unload stress and develop better self-esteem. We offer weekly positive coping guidance, self-esteem, and emotional support.
Book a phone call with our intake team to get started learning positive coping tools today!
