Adolescents who self harm need the help of a professional therapist to find alternatives and positive coping tools. What is the purpose of cutting in adolescents? Self harm and cutting provide fast acting relief from emotional pain. What kind of emotional pain is your adolescent or teenager be struggling with? Well, adolescents are constantly struggling with getting in, body image issues, and trying not to be an outcast. Teenagers are being influenced by social media, and feeling like they have to change themselves to fit in. A teenager may feel pressure from parents, family, and even friends to be perfect all of the time. The team at Wisdom Within Counseling specialize in self-harming teens and family therapy.
Wisdom Within Counseling helps self-harming teenagers learn to love themselves.
If your teenager has a major inner critic, or a beat them, self up emotionally, they may turn to self harm for mental relief. Maybe, your young adult who is overweight and has been bullied by peers. Low self-esteem can be at the root of self-harm and self-injury. Now, cutting and self-harm behaviors can look different for each teenager. Some times, burning is common. Or, cutting with a razor blade is a preferable method. For other teenagers, who want to relieve emotional pain, they may might pull out body hairs. Skin picking is common.
Other teenagers may use a push pin to hurt their skin. Self-harm can include negative behaviors like turning to drugs or alcohol. Self harm and cutting can also include punching a wall or breaking property with a part of their body. Your teenager might be taking a sharp object and injuring themselves in someway to relieve emotional pain. The team of therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling specialize with self-harming teens, parents, and families in therapy.
Are all teenagers who self-harm and self-injure suicidal?
No, not all self-harming teens in counseling are suicidal. Sometimes, teenagers who self harm or cut themselves are suicidal, and sometimes they are not. More often than not, teenagers who cut themselves are not suicidal, but trying to relieve emotional pain.
Self-harming teens benefit from a mix of individual and family therapy sessions. Working with a therapist, such as at Wisdom Within Counseling, who specializes in self harm can help your teen believe in themselves again. As well, your teenager’s therapist can understand if they are actually suicidal, or just struggling from emotional distress.
To begin, book your phone consult for positive coping skills for your self-harming teenager through counseling below.
Why do teenagers self-harm, burn themselves, or cut and how can family therapy help?
Additionally, adolescents may be going through family, chaos and conflict leading to self harm. They have intense emotions like anger, sadness, and insecurity that they don’t know what to do with. Without coping outlets, these big feelings get suppressed and lead to self-harm. Changing schools can be triggering for self-harm and cutting.
As well, multiple family moves, getting a new sibling, or having a family member die are all major life events for a teenager. Going through a family divorce can be very traumatic. Without positive coping strategies, teens will try to cope in negative ways through cutting themselves. As well, adolescents may begin self harming, or cutting themselves after experiencing sexual abuse, rape, incest, or molestation. No matter the cause, your adolescent is experiencing unpleasant thoughts, overwhelming emotions, and emotional distress.
What happens when a teenager cuts themselves and self-harms?
This intense level of emotional distress can make adolescents self-harm and cut themselves. Cutting, burning, and self injury can create an oxytocin and dopamine rush. These positive chemicals are released in the brain naturally calming the mind after a self-harm incident.
There is literally a chemical release that occurs after self harm in cutting. Therefore, your teen’s therapist at Wisdom Within Counseling specializes in teaching healthy and holistic coping strategies. Your teenager can use these skills when urges for cutting or self-harm occur.
To begin, book your phone consult for positive coping skills for your self-harming teenager through counseling below.
Wisdom Within Counseling specializes in positive coping skills for self-harming teens and family therapy
Instead of cutting themselves, your teenager can use painting or art therapy to relieve intense emotions. Wisdom Within Counseling also offers yoga, mindfulness, meditation, breathing techniques, and positive self-talk skills. Your self-harming adolescent can learn to repeat a positive affirmation to believe in themselves. From counseling, your teen can learn to remind themselves that they can get through difficult time.
Rather than wanting to numb out, your adolescent can gain positive coping strategies to overcome conflict.
How can counseling for self-harming teens and family therapy help?
In counseling, we help teenagers have a safe space to talk about wanting to fit in and belong within their peer group. Additionally, certain peers might be encouraging of self harm behaviors. Not all friends are a positive influence on your teenager. So, Wisdom Within Counseling teaches teenagers healthy alternatives to self harm.
To begin, book your phone consult for positive coping skills for your self-harming teenager through counseling below.
Teenagers who self-harm can gain confidence through counseling
Sometimes, teenagers self harm because they feel invisible in their parents eyes, or they feel pressure to be successful. or, teens seek the praise of their parents, but don’t feel good enough still.
Therefore, positive coping tools can help your teenager, live in the present moment, build self-confidence, and feel proud of themselves. Rather than seeking the approval of others, your teenager can feel emotionally connected to their mind and body through counseling.
What are benefits of family therapy for teenager self-harm behaviors?
As well, self harm and cutting behaviors are common in teenagers who have parents who are very dominant. When a teenager has parents who are disciplinarian and decision makers, this can make a teenager, feel powerless and hopeless.
A teenager might feel like they have demanding parents, or emotionally unaware parents. So, family therapy can help parents understand what their teenager needs. A highly sensitive teenager might be more affected by yelling. Or, they may be impacted more so by a parent who is speaking in a dominant or gruff voice.
To begin, book your phone consult for specialized counseling for self-harming teens and family therapy.
Through family therapy, self harm behaviors and cutting behaviors can reduce as families and parents learn to build trust and communication.
Rather than being a domineering parent, a parent can learn to use emotional validation language to help their teenager. Stopping teen self-harming and cutting takes the support of the whole family.
Positive parenting counseling sessions can help parents know what to do when their teen does self-harm
Parents may feel unsure of what to do and helpless when it comes to understanding how to manage their teenager’s self harming or cutting. Rather than feeling like a helpless parent, a parent can gain confidence in understanding how to help their teenager. Learn positive coping strategies as parents can be very positive for your whole family. Family therapy can help parents more deeply understand the root of self harm issues. Self-harm is often a side effect or a symptom of a teenager who is needing emotional coping strategies and emotional relief.
From understanding the root cause of self harm being emotional pain, parents can help their teenager develop healthy strategies to cope with difficult feelings.
Parents can be one of the best resources for a teenager who is self harming. So, parents can learn in family counseling emotional awareness skills. For there, parents can know how to emotionally help their teenager. Parents can help their teenager feel confident from the inside out.
To begin, book your phone consult for positive coping skills for your self-harming teenager through counseling below.
Art, painting, meditation, yoga, music, and holistic therapies is available for self-harming teens and in family therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling
At Wisdom Within Counseling, we offer art therapies, yoga therapies, music therapy, and expressive arts. Teenagers may need a variety of different strategies outside of talking. Some teenagers who self-injure don’t want to directly talk in a traditional way. Coming into a counseling session and talking about self harm may be very helpful for some teens. But, if your teenager doesn’t want to talk, we can offer a language beyond words. Teenagers can learn to stop self-harming by painting, or art activity.
Art, yoga, mediation, and mind-body therapies can can help reduce adolescent self harm.
Holistic therapies provide alternatives to cutting for emotional relief. As well, in family therapy, family painting and art can be very helpful for improving family communication. The team of family therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling teach conflict resolution skills. By using holistic and creative therapies, families can bond in counseling.
To begin, book your phone consult for specialized counseling for self-harming teens and family therapy.
Art, yoga, music, and even outdoor walking sessions can help your teenager foster more meaningful connection with themselves.
Families can also develop closer relationships through creative, holistic, mind-body therapies. Painting together, doing a mindfulness meditation together, or going for a walk together can help with mood stability. In family therapy for teen self-harm, parents can learn playful ways to challenge their teenager’s unhelpful thinking. By using mindfulness meditation skills learned in therapy at home, parents can support positive skills.
How can creative, holistic, mind-body therapies be beneficial to helping teens stop cutting?
Music therapy is very healing as a language beyond words. On that note, music changes our thoughts and can actually bring our minds into a happier, present-moment place. Art, yoga, and music therapy improve memory and cognitive function. This means, creative therapies can help your teenager think more clearly and be less impulsive. Art, yoga, meditation and music therapy can help with anxiety, panic attacks, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, borderline personality disorder, and bi-polar disorder.
Moreover, music therapy is a way of using music as a means of communication, in addition to words as language. Sometimes, children, adolescents, teens, and even young adults have difficult talking about emotions, especially when struggling with a tough issue. Therefore, children and teens who naturally avoid confrontation can deeply benefit from listening to music. Teenagers and parents can play instruments together in family therapy sessions in Niantic, Connecticut.
Families can learn healthy ways to manage stress and overcome challenging emotions together in counseling.
Holistic counseling at Wisdom Within provides a gentle, sensitive, and calm environment for parents and teenagers to deal with intense topics. Counseling for teen self-harm every week can be the time that your teen gets to learn new ways and healthier ways of coping. Creative, holistic therapies at Wisdom Within Counseling can offer mental and emotional relief from pain. These holistic therapies like dance and movement can be a great way to let go of body image insecurities. Art, yoga, music and dance therapies help teenagers in counseling see their strengths and their abilities, without feeling pressure to complete a specific task.
To begin, book your phone consult for positive coping skills for your self-harming teenager through counseling below.
As well, parent counseling can help families learn how to incorporate more quality time together at home.
Rather than putting pressure on a teenager for not doing their homework, families can start to focus on playfulness and quality time together that is not related to a certain outcome. Family therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling offers parents creative ideas for bonding.
For instance, families could plan a weekly outing at the nature center, going for a hike, or playing a board game. Additionally, the team it with him within counseling, help families and their teenagers build emotional connection. Parents can learn to share stories with their teenager of when they were once a teenager too. Talking about what it was like growing up as a teenager can be really insightful for a young adult to hear.
How can self-harming teens and parents learn healthy coping skills in family therapy?
Parents can also learn positive strategies to model healthy coping tools. If the parent is drinking alcohol, or using other drugs to numb out themselves, a teenager will often think these behaviors are acceptable. And, if a parent is drinking alcohol in excess, watching TV into the late hours of the evening, or having anger outburst, a teenager will often take on these negative behaviors. Anger issues in a family can be just as dangerous for relationships as self-harm is for the relationship with ourselves.
Building positive coping tools as parents in family therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling will help your teenager develop healthy behaviors.
Showing your teenager healthy ways to manage stress is a key part of family counseling at Wisdom Within. Rather than drinking alcohol or abusing, alcohol and drugs, parents can learn lifelong coping strategies to. These healthy skills from counseling get passed down to children naturally. If you notice your teenager is taking part in any risky or dangerous behavior, taking a look at your own behavior in parenting sessions and family counseling can be very helpful.
To begin, book your phone consult for positive coping skills for your self-harming teenager through counseling below.
When parents learn healthier ways to cope with anger and anxiety, it benefits the whole family.
The team of family therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling help teenagers and their parents start to feel more connected. From building better communication in family therapy, teens and parents can build trusting relationship.
Dancing to music, painting, and yoga therapy can offer teenagers many outlets for relief from painful emotions, depression, anxiety, and other mental health issues!
Katie Ziskind, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, RTY500 provides experiential therapy in Niantic, Connecticut and TeleTherapy from any location. At Wisdom Within Counseling, Katie and her team help frustrated couples, and anxious children and teens build confidence. From counseling, teenagers who self-harm start to feel worthy and good enough to belong.
Painting, art, yoga, music, and animal therapies are combined along with traditional talk therapy, so teenagers can live a life they LOVE! Furthermore, the holistic therapies teach self-harming teenagers skills such as self-regulation, trust, and social emotional learning. The team of therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling would love to help your child or teen build confidence and positive coping tools.
