COUNSELING TO HELP YOUR FAMILY FIND CONFIDENCE AND CLARITY
If you are a parent or guardian in Southeastern connecticut who….
- Has questions or concerns about your child’s behavior
- Is seeking professional, confidential parenting guidance or support
- Desires a more connected, fulfilling, balanced parent-child relationship
- Wants to talk with someone who won’t push you to medicate your toddler
You’re exactly where you’re meant to be. We are specialists with anxious little ones and pediatric therapy.
Is your child not eating anymore after a major trauma?
Or, is your toddler talking less or not at all after loss or death of a loved one?
Is your child having trouble sleeping? Bed wetting? Crying too frequently?
Also, after being attacked by a dog, is your child timid, scared, and afraid?
Is your toddler not listening and you’re very overwhelmed?
To start, have you heard of the terrible two’s?
Well, why do some toddlers get so frustrated and cry? Toddlers develop emotional knowledge sooner than verbal skills. So, children can’t talk out their feelings like two adults would over morning tea. To add, some young children have emotional needs that can’t be verbalized. And, if your child can’t talk yet, imaginary play and play therapy are essential. Play therapy is the language of a 2-3 year old. Furthermore, your young toddler can feel positive expressing inner conflict and turmoil through play therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling in East Lyme. When it comes to therapy for preschoolers, Katie Ziskind LMFT, RYT500, is a professional child therapist.
Learn more about creative pediatric therapy below
Can any therapist do counseling with toddlers?
Well, no. Why? Well, a therapist who works with preschoolers will have both gross and fine motor objects. Also, a therpaist for preschoolers will have their office set up for a child to expose and feel safe! For instance, Katie Ziskind, licensed marriage and family therapist, has air dry clay, markers, musical instruments, and ribbons. Together, these play therapy objects help a toddler develop self awareness. Plus, Katie observes the play to better understand your child’s worries. Further, Katie Ziskind helps preschoolers release feelings and express emotions through hands-on learning.
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Animal therapy in pediatric therapy in Southeastern CT
Also, animal therapy groups for preschoolers teach mindfulness and social skills. Likewise, animal therapy groups for preschoolers teach healthy touch with animals. As well, animal therapy helps preschoolers let go of fear and anxiety. Overall, the team at Wisdom Within Counseling in East Lyme offers out-of-the-box approaches.
How is therapy for preschoolers different?
Often, adult therapists or talk counselors won’t be able to effectively help a toddler or young child feel safe. From blowing bubbles to painting nails to play dough, Katie Ziskind LMFT, RYT500 steps into a shy child’s world. From developing trust through play therapy, imaginative play, and art, your child’s frustration will have an outlet. So, your homelife will become more relaxed. You can let go a little as a parent knowing you’re in the hands of a specialist for little one. In combination, both parent support sessions and family sessions are used to provide coping skills.
Contact us today, and let us support and nurture your child so he or she can experience a great start to their amazing life! Call 860-451-9364
How does pediatric therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling in Niantic, Connecticut work?
Well, pediatric therapy begins by helping your child feel safe. Often, aggressive, disruptive, or withdrawn behaviors are a sign of emotional turmoil in your little one. Right now, your preschool age son or daughter might be suffering in someway, that he or she cannot verbalize. So, as a parent, you’re seeing disruptive behaviors or signs of regression. Now, regression is when your preschooler learn to do something really positive such as being potty trained. They met a developmental milestone, but because of a family change like divorce, sexual trauma, or environmental stress, your toddler has now stopped doing what they learned how to do.Therefore, our team of creative pediatric therapist know how to step into a worried child’s world and create a safe container. From helping your little one feel safe, a trusting, therapeutic relationship and nurturing can be developed.
What should we expect as a family when starting pediatric therapy?
As a team of child specialists, we know that a child’s root system in early years creates the foundation for teenage years. Therefore, our team of child therapists are here to help you parent in the most effective ways and provide your little one with skills for best foundation imaginable.
Who do we work with when it comes to pediatric therapy?
First, we start with a parent only intake session. This is just you and your child’s therapist, without your child in the room. Further, this session allows you and your child therapist to have an in-depth conversation, adult to adult. From here, then you and your little one will come in for weekly play therapy sessions to develop your child’s fine motor skills, verbal development, and overall support both you and your child. Periodically, your child’s therapist may ask you to come in for a parent only session, to better understand what’s going on at preschool, at home, and in your child’s environment. Likewise, these parent only sessions are like parent teacher conference is and are a great way to have an open dialogue.
Through pediatric therapy, our team of child specialist integrate art, yoga, music, animals, and outdoor therapies to help toddlers have a positive beginning to life.
Calmness, clarity, and expression through pediatric therapy and play therapy
Now, we assist children to young ages 0-20 who require help in developing emotional coping skills, speech skills, trouble talking about anxiety, or have trouble socializing. In addition, we also work with young adults, parents, blended families, families going through divorce, parents remarrying, LGBT families, and poly couples. Further, using a creative approach, we tailor and personalize your toddler’s plan of care to your child’s needs and goals for development.
Why is it important to find a child specialist?
Well, at Wisdom within Counseling in Southeastern Connecticut play therapy for preschoolers is unique. Many times, therapists only work with adults and don’t know how to do therapy beyond talking. To note, young toddlers can not talk about death of a sibling, loss, a pet dying, divorce, and sexual abuse. Therefore, we specialize using art therapy, play therapy and outdoor nature therapies for expression. Also, animal therapies and play therapy for preschoolers help little ones let go of loss and grief.
How does Wisdom Within Counseling in Niantic, CT specialize play therapy for preschoolers?
Further, we focus on building positive, meaningful, trusting relationships with toddlers and parents. From this safety in counseling, we help preschoolers express anger and frustration. For instance, losing a sibling, death of a friend, or loss of a parent are very important to process through play therapy. Also, we work with you as a parent to help you learn parenting skills to help your toddler feel safe, capable and independent. After trauma and PTSD especially, toddlers and children need expert PTSD therapy. From creative art, yoga, music, animals and outdoor therapies, our team helps children feel safe letting go. Right now, you’re doing the best you can with what you have. However, our team of play therapists for preschoolers in Niantic can help create a plan for better behavior at school and at home.
What happens to toddlers after experiencing trauma? Toddlers are never too young for therapy!
Sometimes, toddlers will stop eating because of loss of a sibling. Or, toddlers will stop talking when one of their parents dies. Also, toddlers may become disruptive after a family dog dies. Furthermore, your child may cry all the time or may not cry at all. Let us help you and your toddler manage all these losses, trauma, sadness, and deaths through play therapy for preschoolers in Southeastern CT.
