Outdoor therapies can be really beneficial for depression and anxiety symptoms. As well, being outside in the fresh air can improve your health through alternative medicines. To add, outdoor therapies are helpful for all ages to have an expressive approach to reducing stress. Maybe, you are in the process of a stressful divorce? Or, your siblings and parents have addiction and substance abuse issues? As well, do you want nurturing social connections? Many times, chaos and stress causes children and adults to develop chronic mental health issues such as depression and anxiety. Therefore, outdoor therapy and exercise play an important role in healing anxiety and depression conditions.
How does being barefoot reduce stress and anger?
In addition to a traditional talk counseling setting, we offer outdoor therapies. For children, playing hop scotch, using art, chalk, and clay help with processing loss. Often times, talking and medication alone do not provide long-term skills for anxiety and depression. So, walking is a skill that is available to you long after therapy is over. What can you do today for outdoor time? For one, you can go outside today and roller blade. Remember, wear knee, wrist and elbow pads. Or, you can go for a walk around your neighborhood. Essentially, getting outside can be simple like going to a park. As well, you can even go pick some flowers that are growing to bring indoors. Fresh flowers can help with boosting mood. But, for people with depression, getting out of bed can feel like a big challenge.
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As well, walking has no side effects and can be an alternative to those who are sensitive to medication.
So, some adults like to do walking therapy along side medication and prescriptions. In this case, outdoor therapies can be offered to teens and adults looking for skills alongside or as medication alternatives. As well, adults enjoy walking therapy in Niantic, CT when looking to come off medication. For instance, going for a walk and being outside can be a great self-care practice. Sometimes, people get side effects from medication and develop drug tolerance. Overall, walking therapy does not cause anyone to develop a tolerance. With depression medication, they stop working over time. Over time, people build a tolerance to depression medications. So, an alternative is walking and talking.
Walking therapy also does not have any negative side effects. For instance, a person who is older, feeling depressed, overweight, and lacking motivation may be a great candidate for our outdoor walk and talk session.
What makes nature and outdoor therapy in Connecticut so calming?
In addition, adding outdoor therapies can help improve attention, impulses, and quality of life. Breathing in fresh air is calming. As well, listening to the birds chirping is calming for anxiety. To add, the vibrations of walking with each foot helps with depression. Outdoor therapies can help different mental health conditions from anxiety to depression. But, walk and talk therapy in Niantic, CT also helps people with social phobias. In a walking session, you may encounter other people on the side walk. You and your therapist can process and talk about how to socialize with others and with strangers. Building social confidence is a benefit of doing a walking session outdoors.
How can outdoor therapy in Connecticut help improve and balance your moods?
You and your therapist go at slow speed‘s and walk at an easy pace. As well, a person who likes to move around more often may enjoy walking session. Perhaps, you desire a movement-based therapy. Maybe, you have an interest in photography in nature, already enjoy walks, or enjoy recreation activities outdoors. Walk and talk therapy can be great for someone who already enjoys nature and hiking. On a walking therapy session, a person feels immediate emotional benefits. Walking improves digestion and can help people feel happier after the session. From self-care, depression and anxiety coping skills evolve.
When the weather is sunny and nice, how can you get outside when feeling depression?
We focus on positive experiences at Wisdom Within Counseling. If exercise feels very difficult alone, going for a walk and talk session outdoors in the fresh air can help depression symptoms reduce. And, sunshine can offer a nature-based activity for feeling better. As well, walking with a therapist means that you are free from criticism from family and friends. Sometimes, people decide they don’t want to do group exercises anymore because they have been bullied or criticized by others. Walking therapy in Niantic, Connecticut is a calm way to build self-worth skills. And, walk and talk therapy in Southeastern Connecticut prevents negative criticism because you are walking with your therapist.
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What are nature therapies, play therapies and outdoor therapy in Connecticut?
In addition, going outside for a walking session in therapy can help people live in the present moment. The mind focuses on the pretty flowers and can let go of the past. Walk and talk therapy in Niantic, Connecticut is helpful for healing from trauma. Essentially, trauma flashbacks can leave a person feeling anxiety and depression. When there is anxiety, you might be living in the future. Maybe, there are worries or fears about what will happen next. Or, if there is depression, your mind is focused on the past or stuck in regrets. Therefore, incorporating outdoor walk and talk therapy into your counseling process can help with mind-body connection.
From paying attention to your body, memory, sleep, and emotional stability improve greatly.
How can you spend more time outside with your therapist gaining self-love tools?
At Wisdom Within Counseling, we offer a unique, creative, experiential approach with traditional talking, art, yoga, music, outdoor therapies, or a combination. We offer art and music, paints, glitter gel pens, watercolors, and clay. So, you can go for an outdoor walk-and-talk session by the beach in the sun on the Niantic Bay Boardwalk. Or, sit on a comfy couch in an office. Wisdom Within Counseling offers mind-body therapies like yoga poses and mindfulness meditations to help you feel stronger, clear your head, and build a self-care toolbox.
Wisdom Within Counseling in Niantic, Connecticut is a relationship oriented, unique and different practice.
As a group, we offer holistic marriage and family therapy. You can pick from creative outdoor therapy in Connecticut, art, yoga, music, and walk and talk. We are a practice that has time to call you doctor, school, care coordination, and your therapist is there for you to check in briefly throughout the week. Essentially, the relationship you get out of therapy with us is unique because it is a place to focus on yourself. You can learn to cope with negative feelings.
Not having a space to process those thoughts and feelings leads to depression and anxiety. And, you can talk openly about what you can’t in other areas of your life in a confidential setting. From Wisdom Within Counseling session, you can gain lifelong, holistic skills for your whole self.
