First, when your teenager feels anger or anxiety, self-harm may be a real scare. Now, being emotionally vulnerable in counseling helps teenagers deal with their negative emotions. And, teenagers in counseling benefit from therapy for the rest fo their lives. In general, there are two types of self-injury. For one, there is non suicidal self- harm or cutting, and then there is suicidal self-harm. In therapy for teenagers who self-harm, our therapists teach positive coping skills. Overall, our therapy team helps teenagers who self-harm, act impulsively, and have emotional meltdowns. Call/text 860-451-9364 for help stoping your teenager’s self-harm and cutting in Niantic teen therapy.
What makes a teenager prone to self-harm?
In regular therapy, your teenager can learn specific emotion regulation skills. Furthermore, positive coping skills help your teenager identify the emotions under self-harm like anger and anxiety. Have they moved to a new school recently, been bullied, or diagnosed with a new medical condition? Or, upcoming divorce, loss of a sibling or friend, blending families, or other major life stress? Also, expressing feelings with words can be hard in life transitions. So, we offer creative options beyond traditional talk counseling for children, adolescents, teenagers. Sometimes, these major events in life get stuck and adolescents and teenagers don’t know how to let out or even talk about their feelings. Call/text 860-451-9364 for a phone consultation to get your teenager their own safe space to unload stress around a major life change.
From holistic, creative therapy, your teenager can gain alternatives for expressing emotions rather than self-harm.
Moreover, weekly counseling in Niantic, Connecticut helps prevent intense emotional fluctuations. Plus, while helping teens stop self-harming and cutting in Niantic teen therapy, we offer creative art and yoga therapies. Does your teenager self-harm, have anxiety and also have an eating disorder? Is your teenager stealing or doing other impulsive behaviors? Drinking, dealing alcohol, smoking marijuana? Well, therapy for teenagers helps your teen slow down adn gain direction again. Plus, your teenager can have a positive role model outside of the family. Overall, self-harm counseling provides lifelong skills for self-acceptance and inner strength. Call/text 860-451-9364 for teen counseling in Southeastern Connecticut.
How does yoga in Niantic therapy help adolescents and teenagers who are self-harming and cutting stop?
First, yoga promotes self-awareness. So, your teenager can learn to regulate their moods better outside of their therapy sessions. Also, private yoga for teenagers helps with calmness and positive self-talk. Yoga can be an amazing coping skill for self-love, stopping self-harm, and cutting reduction. Additionally, yoga is a gentle, non-medication approach, and a great alternative to psychiatric mediations. Overall, Wisdom Within Counseling helps teenagers who have eating disorders and self-harm lifelong skills for self-care and self-love. Furthermore, yoga helps non binary, gender questioning, and anxious teenagers who are in the closet get connected to themselves. Call/text 860-451-9364 for LGBTQIA+ teen counseling in Southeastern Connecticut. Stoping self-harm and cutting in Niantic teen therapy is possible.
Stoping self-harm and cutting in Niantic teen therapy begins with unique, alternative, and creative, art, yoga, and outdoor walk and talk therapies
At Wisdom Within Counseling in Niantic, Connecticut, the team of marriage, individual, child, and family therapists help teenagers stop self-harming. To add, our style is focused on yoga, art, painting, creative therapies, and a healthy body image. Many times, self-harm is an explorative process and a cry for help. The first moment you see self-harm or cutting in your adolescent, call a therapist. Really, you teenager is saying that they need guidance and help expressing emotions.
Therefore, in Niantic, Connecticut, your teenager can learn to love him or herself through art, yoga, music, and walking outside in therapy.
Furthermore, the unique and different therapies in Southeastern Connecticut for self-harm help teenagers learn that there are alternatives. And, these holistic therapies help teenagers naturally stop cutting and want to love themselves. Call/text 860-451-9364 for counseling for your teenager. Lastly, the Wisdom Within Counseling team focus on stoping self-harm and cutting in Niantic teen therapy.
What is one at-home tip for stoping self-harm and cutting in Niantic teen therapy?
Overwhelming, angry, and anxious thoughts can lead to self-harm. Therefore, instead of acting on your anger, see if you can journal. Journaling, a positive coping skill for cutting, helps you slow down. To add, journaling is a great way to reflect on your thoughts, and choose positive ones. For instance, try to journal for 10 minutes if you feel the urge to self-harm. By the end of the ten minutes, you may no longer have the urge to cut yourself. From journaling, you can really understand how much time you need to complete your to do list. Often, self-harm is the only coping skills a teenager has. So, call/text 860-451-9364 for information on stoping self-harm and cutting in Niantic teen therapy.
Here is a self-harm hotline for support and a resource!
Also, through counseling, your teenager can choose self-care and self-love over self-injury and cutting.
Cutting, a red flag behavior, communicates that your teenager needs a therapist outside of their family unit. Stoping self-harm and cutting in Niantic teen therapy is a long-term process. Start today, call/text 860-451-9364 for a phone consultation for adolescent and teen self-harm help.
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How is your East Lyme middle schooler or teenager doing in each of these areas? Are they working on self-love skills? The Wisdom Within Counseling team of therapists are happy to help both parents and teenagers thrive.
Want even more positive, healthy, and compassionate influences in your growing teenager’s life?
Teen girls and boys benefit form weekly individual creative counseling in Niantic, Connecticut. To add, the adult, child, teen, and couples therapists help teenagers connect with themselves. So, if your high schooler is dealing with anxiety, depression, trauma, ADHD, or low self-esteem, let us help. Also, we are LGBTQIA+ affirming. Frequently, our therapists help gay, bisexual, lesbian, asexual, non binary, transgender, and gender questioning teenagers. By having options beyond just traditional talk therapy, your teenager can have the opportunity of a life time. Your teenager can learn how to accept and let go of difficult emotions of lifelong physical, emotional, and mental wellness. Call/text 860-451-9364 for a phone consult about stoping self-harm and cutting through Niantic teen therapy.
