First, as a parent you have deep love for your adopted preschooler or child. However, do you also wonder what happened in those first days, months and years of life before they got to you? You are not alone. Therefore, there is help for your family here. Right now, your child’s preschool is complaining about bad behaviors, biting, and meltdowns. Is your child’s preschool or school considering asking your family to leave due to behavior issues? To understand what is going on at school, work with a Niantic, CT play therapist who specializes in childhood trauma. Call or text 860-451-9364 to work with a Southeastern CT child and adolescent therapist.
And, are some negative behaviors now that you wonder about, what might be the root? Working with a Southeastern CT child and adolescent therapist can help you gain calmness and clarity.
For one, you know that before you adopted your child, there was neglect. But, you are not sure of the details or severity of that neglect. And, you in exactly the right place. The Wisdom Within Counseling team can help your toddler or child feel safe in the world again. Our team helps children who can’t talk use out-of-the-box ways to communicate what is stuck inside. Many children call their therapist a feelings doctor because it feels so good letting go after session. Call/Text 860-451-9364 for more information on creative child therapy, and Niantic, CT play therapy with speciality in childhood trauma. The team at Wisdom Within Counseling in Southeastern Connecticut is unique, out-of-the-box, and creative when it comes to child therapy. Learn more about play therapy in and working with a Southeastern CT child and adolescent therapist.
What are some symptoms of needing a child therapist on your team?
Sometimes, children with trauma look like they have depression. It is okay if you don’t know if your child had a trauma history. They can still benefit from child counseling if they experience any of these symptoms. For one, too much or too little sleep as well as loss of appetite or overeating are good reasons to seek child therapy. Also, unexplained irritability and anger, biting, aggression, problems focusing on projects are good reasons to call Wisdom Within Counseling. Also, if your child was talking and now has stopped talking, getting a professional therapist on your team can’t hurt! Essentially, it is best to help children express emotions at an early age. Call/Text 860-451-9364 for more information on creative child therapy, and Niantic, CT play therapy with speciality in childhood trauma at Wisdom Within Counseling.
How can having your child work weekly with a Niantic, CT play therapist who specializes in childhood trauma be helpful for adult years?
On that note, toddler and child therapy will lay an emotional foundation for teenage and high school years. Right now, your child is having a variety of feelings that they just don’t know how to identify or get out. Therefore, anger, frustration, sadness, and loss will not go away on their own. So, if your child has lost a sibling to a sudden death, Wisdom Within Counseling in East Lyme, CT can help.
How can working with a Southeastern CT child and adolescent therapist help with improving parent and child communication and bonding?
Perhaps, your child was born with a communication processing delay or autism and needs non-verbal ways to heal and communicate. Furthermore, communication with your child who is in preschool or non-verbal can be done through art and play therapy. Or, if your child has been through developmental trauma or sexual abuse, Wisdom Within Counseling in Southeastern CT can help.
What does a Southeastern CT child and adolescent therapist do?
The Wisdom Within Counseling in East Lyme, Connecticut we help families of all types. Many families find it helpful, fun, and helps provide clarity. Also, therapists help teach social and emotional learning, self-compassion, and self-awareness. Maybe, your child has trouble losing or gets frustrated losing a board game. With anger meltdowns, calls to 2-1-1, and low school motivation issues, our therapists can help your child. Also, in teenage years, these behaviors can escalate to alcoholism, eating disorders, or self-harm. Essentially, your child needs someone outside of your family to assess and help identify emotions. Plus, the art, yoga, music, and outdoor therapies at Wisdom Within Counseling in East Lyme, Connecticut promote self-esteem. Call/text 860-451-9364 to work with a holistic CT play therapist who specializes in childhood trauma.
What happens when you or your loved one goes through trauma, sexual abuse, physical abuse, emotional abuse, or emotional or physical neglect?
At first, your body goes into flight, fight, freeze or retreat. For one, children who experience trauma have a hard time going back to relaxation mode. To add, no matter the reason behind the trauma, your child needs a safe place to release memories. Your young child can learn positive coping skills for releasing anger, anxiety, depression, and trauma. In teenage years and adult years, unaddressed childhood trauma can lead to self-harm, eating disorders, recklessness sex, impulsivity, alcoholism, drug use, and other negative behaviors. Call or text 860-451-9364 to meet with a Southeastern CT child and adolescent therapist.
How can working with a Southeastern CT child and adolescent therapist help you whole family thrive calmly?
Plus, the positive, trusting relationship your child builds with their therapist now can be long-term lasting for years into their adolescence and teenage years. Call/text 860-451-9364 for a phone consultation for trauma recovery at Wisdom Within Counseling in Niantic, Connecticut. Overall, movement, outdoor play therapy helps children open up when working with their Southeastern CT child and adolescent therapist.
What is Wisdom Within Counseling in East Lyme, Connecticut all about when it comes to trauma healing and therapy?
Holistic, art, yoga, music, and walking therapies support people who have been through trauma. So, if you are looking for a Niantic, CT play therapist who specializes in childhood trauma, look no farther for the expert you need. Let’s look at helping you and your child grow closer, more connected, and create a lifelong positive bond! Overall, we are happy to be your family’s Southeastern CT child and adolescent therapist for better emotional communication skills. Call/text 860-451-9364 to begin working with a Southeastern CT child and adolescent therapist.
Has your child been labeled by their school as a bad child?
Sometimes, when a school system becomes exhausted, they label a child a bad child. Now, this is a red flag that means your child needs professional play therapy help letting go of deeper feelings. But, it also means that a play therapist who specializes in childhood trauma in counseling can be an advocate for your child. In their school, their teachers benefit from working with your child’s therapist also.
Southeastern CT child and adolescent therapists support youth beyond just talk counseling
Commonly, our holistic family therapists maintain a close connection with schools and help teachers understand the trauma cycle. At times, our therapists communicate with psychiatrists, pediatricians, physicians, other therapists, and APRN. On one hand, adults can easily talk about what is happening. Plus, we help parents unload and destress with busy schedules. Also, children and toddlers need a special kind of counseling that allows them to talk. On that note, as therapists offer options to go beyond words. Many times, children use puppets, yoga, clay, painting, and children’s yoga to express themselves. Lastly, call/text 860-451-9364 for an appointment with a Wisdom Within Counseling Niantic, CT play therapist who specializes in childhood trauma.
What is unique and different about child therapy for trauma recovery at Wisdom Within Counseling in Niantic, Connecticut?
At Wisdom Within Counseling in Niantic, Connecticut your child can use art, yoga, musical instruments, and nature to express themselves. Really, it is not developmentally appropriate for children to do talk therapy. Therefore, our team can help your child express emotions and traumatic experiences through Niantic play therapy. Overall, the holistic martial and family therapists use art, children’s yoga, play therapy, and positive parenting skills.
Initially, at Wisdom Within Counseling in Niantic, Connecticut the toddler and child therapists help parents understand the power of play for children.
And, you learn how to use play techniques at home to build upon what is going on in the counseling session. On that note, play is the language of your child. So, your child’s play therapist in Niantic, Connecticut can help your child communicate what happened without talking. Call/Text 860-451-9364 for more information on Southeastern Connecticut holistic child therapy.
Looking for a local, Niantic, CT play therapist who specializes in childhood trauma?
In play therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling, your child with a trauma history has a safe place to process. Naturally, children play out what happened to them in the past with puppets, dolls, and art.
Play therapy and childhood trauma as a Southeastern CT child and adolescent therapist
As therapists, we also enjoy teaching parents how to understand the world of play therapy. Therefore, the second part of childhood trauma therapy is helping parents understand how play facilitates a positive parent child connection. Every day, playing with your child builds trust, bonding, and enhances and solidifies the connection between you and parent and your child. Therefore, make a paper bag puppet, or sock puppet with your child! When working with a Southeastern CT child and adolescent therapist, you can learn positive ways to bond with your child or teenager. Watch the sock puppet video below.
Then, have a theatrical production with your homemade puppets to promote trust, playfulness, and increase parent child bonding!
But, play can be hard with a child who may not talk and has been trough neglect or abuse. To note, going through developmental and childhood trauma makes trusting individuals more difficult for children and adults. Especially when children don’t or can’t talk, play, art, and music therapy is essential. Throwing temper tantrums, biting, sharing difficulties, and more can make playing with friends or teachers hard too. And, when teachers don’t have training in understanding trauma, it can make school challenging. Katie Ziskind offers professional training for school districts on understanding childhood trauma. Call/text 860-451-9364 for a play therapy session for your child.
What one some thing you can do at home to help your child feel safe expressing themselves and exploring their new world?
To start, offer a variety of sensory tubs with various sizes of fuzzy pompoms, large and small dried beans, as well as dried peas, and rice. Have them in tupperwares or bowls. Also, you can goto your local dollar store and get shovels, cups, bowls, and funnels. Also, transferring these items back and fourth is positive for confidence and leadership. And, children enjoy the various textures and sizes of the items in the sensory bins. You are helping your child overcome fears of the unknown. Furthermore, allowing your child to explore these beans and pompoms helps your child feel capable exploring in a classroom setting. Our team at Wisdom Within Counseling would love to help your child express themselves in healthy ways.
For professional play therapy help, child counseling, and to work with a Southeastern CT child and adolescent therapist, call or text 860-451-9364.
About The Author, Katie Ziskind, Niantic, CT play therapist who specializes in childhood trauma and adult trauma
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
Child, Teen, and Young Adult Therapist
Distant Couples and Marriage Therapist
PTSD and Trauma Specialist Using Art and Yoga
Read more at www.WisdomWithinCt.com. First, trauma and PTSD counseling is one of Katie Ziskind’s specialities. Now, when it comes to early childhood trauma, including physical, mental, emotional, and sexual trauma, Katie Ziskind and the Wisdom Within Counseling team uses gentleness and compassion. Also, Katie Ziskind and her team of marriage and family therapists go beyond just talk therapy. Therefore, when treating post-traumatic stress disorder, Katie Ziskind and the Wisdom Within Counseling therapists use holistic, mind-body therapies. Now, Katie Ziskind doesn’t jump right to medication because the memories need healthy outlets. So, Katie and her team of therapists in East Lyme, CT offer creative art, yoga, and walking therapies can help people overcome trauma as well as talking.
What are some symptoms of trauma in adulthood?
To add, trauma symptoms can include hyperactivity, as well as very low energy, anxiety, panic, depression, frequent crying, anger/rage, mood swings, as well as alcohol use, eating disorders, and drug use. Also, sometimes people with PTSD will have difficulties keeping steady relationships due to attachment and trust developmental disruptions as a child. Living with trauma can feel like one moment you are very high and then very low. Often, when people have has sexual, physical, or emotional trauma in childhood, they develop protective parts that kept them safe at the time. However, it takes professional support to heal.
What is one resource if you are an adult living with PTSD or want to start your trauma healing by reading?
Complex-Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD) by Pete Walker LMFT is a great book and I often recommend it for my clients to read to want support with PTSD. PTSD can happen to anyone: from a college rape survivor, to being a child of alcoholic parents, to being molested as a boy by a neighbor or coach, to loss of a spouse, parent or child, to being shamed and bullied for being gay, to being emotionally neglected as a youth. Katie Ziskind, and her East Lyme, Connecticut Wisdom Within Counseling enjoy helping victims of trauma heal, connect their mind-body, and step into their present moment personal power.
Confidence and Feeling Safe Are Possible.
So, whether you are looking for a Niantic, CT play therapist who specializes in childhood trauma or an adult trauma therapist, Wisdom Within Counseling is just a call away.
