Looking for a counselor for your teenager or your young adult?
Does your teenager act impulsively? Need guidance verbalizing anxiety and other feelings? Wisdom Within Counseling helps teenagers who are heading down the wrong path. Perhaps, you are looking for a teen addiction counselor to support your teen in develop inner strength. Teenagers who are low in self-esteem are more easily pressured to try drugs and drink alcohol. Your teenager may be smoking marijuana, vaping nicotine in the school bathroom, or sneaking alcohol. These impulsive behaviors are signs your teenager needs a safe place to learn about emotional coping tools.
Are you looking for a creative, holistic teen addiction counselor to support better self-esteem and healthy coping tools?
At Wisdom Within Counseling in Niantic, Connecticut, we understand that you are worried and concerned. Often, teenagers will drink alcohol, vape, and do impulsive things. Sometimes, teenagers are beyond disrespectful and hurtful. Other times, your teenager still wants you to rub his or her back before bed, and talk. Parenting a teen is no easy task. That’s where we come in. So, if you are looking for a creative counselor for teenagers of any gender or sexual orientation, we are a team of experts.
To begin, click the button below to book your free phone consult for your teen to start counseling.
Is your teenager vaping in the high school bathroom?
First, alarming behaviors have you thinking about therapy as a loving parent. Next, your distant teen was caught vaping in the high school bathroom. They were caught by their school security guard. When you wanted to talk to them, they didn’t have much to say. It is clear that they are suffering from anxiety, being an outcast, and even anger. Last week, you found a box of cigarettes in their back pack hidden in a pocket. Wisdom Within Counseling can help with these addictive concerning behaviors.
Working with a teen addiction counselor helps your teenager find healthier ways to deal with intense emotions.
You know that these negative behaviors are a sign of a deeper underlying emotional issues. Maybe, you are getting a divorce and this is impactful. Or, your teenager is also struggling fitting in.
is alcohol missing from your alcohol cabinet? Is your teenager stealing?
Now, alcohol is missing from your alcohol cabinet. The other night, your teenager snuck out to a party and called you drunk. Your teenager’s grades have begun dropping too. Lastly, you found out your teenager is skipping class. Having your teenager connect with a teen addiction counselor supports self-confidence. Even if friends are swaying your teen to use drugs or drink, they can learn to set healthy boundaries. Also, our team of creative therapists specialize with helping distant teens reconnect with themselves.
Art therapies, yoga therapies, drama therapies, music therapies, and walk and talk therapies help distant teenagers express emotions in healthy ways.
Grades dropping and low school motivation?
And, with low school motivation, you are worried about their negative behaviors really hurting their future. Also, smoking marijuana has you looking for more positive role models too. Also, another top concern you have is about your teen losing their ability to get into a good college. As a parent, your fears that they could hurt their future are very real. Maybe, you are worried that your teenager is sleeping around or may get pregnant.
At Wisdom Within Counseling in Niantic, we specialize in helping teens who are expressing feelings in unhealthy ways.
When your teenager is using drugs and drinking alcohol, they are masking emotional pain. Your teenager is covering up their true emotions. Our team teaches positive coping skills for self-confidence using art, yoga, music, walk-and-talk, and animal therapies. Having appointments with a teen addiction counselor at Wisdom Within Counseling supports creative, playfulness and emotion resilience.
To begin, click the button below to book your free phone consult to get your teenager struggling with addiction started in holistic counseling in Niantic.
Are you worried about substance abuse in your teenager?
The team of teen specialists in Niantic provide substance abuse and alcoholism assessments for teenagers. Teenagers may buy vapes from their friends to try to be cool. Alike, all genders of teenagers will try smoking and drinking. However, as counselors for teenagers, we know experimenting can quickly turn into a full fledged addiction. Teenagers who are drinking alcohol are numbing out important feelings. Therapy helps teenagers process their past emotions and build a life worth living.
Seeking a holistic counselor for teenage girls that can also offer family therapy sessions?
As well as, we offer family counseling services in Southeastern Connecticut in Niantic for alcohol and drug abuse. Notably, addiction is a family therapy matter. Frequently, our team of Niantic marriage and family therapists and counselors for teenage girls offer individual therapy. At Wisdom Within Counseling, our team of creative teen therapists along the shoreline offer outdoor walk and talk sessions. From painting to walking outside, look no further for a counselor for teenage girls in East Lyme, Connecticut.
Is your teenager or young adult using alcohol and drugs and needing healthy outlets to cope?
Wisdom Within Counseling therapists have special expertise when it comes to adolescent drug use. So, teen addiction needs to be nipped in the bud. You can offer help to your teen girl by finding a counselor for teenage girls. Often, we work with teenage boys who need help letting go of trauma and loss from childhood.
To begin, click the button below to book your free phone consultation for your teen with addictive behaviors to gain self-esteem and inner peace.
Creative counselors for teenage girl and and therapists for teenage boys
For example, losing a sibling as a child can be an unresolved trauma that causes a teenager to want to get high. Now, you and your teenager are getting int fights all the time. In therapy, we work on handling and expressing the feelings under the anger. For parents, when your adolescent is going through addiction, it can feel overwhelming and scary.
Does your teenager get angry and threaten, “I might as well kill myself!”
First, being seventeen years old is a time of anger and frustration. Sometimes, having a counselor for teenage girl can help your teen have another positive influence on letting go. Further, your teenager pushes boundaries at home. And, this makes parenting exhausting. Sometimes, your teenager won’t speak. But, you know its depression. Plus, suicidal thoughts means that your teenager needs professional help right away. Also, if you teenage boy is getting into drunk car accidents, this is a problem. To note, negative teen behaviors are a sign there are deep underlying emotions.
What negative behaviors really mean?
To note, your teenager’s negative behaviors a their way of communicating. Negative behaviors are your teenager’s way of saying that they need help. And, this help can only come from a professional on mental health outside of your family. Frequently, teenagers need help processing childhood memories and family issues.
Often, finding a counselor for teenage girls can be a relief for your teenager. So, just like your teenager would learn about math or science in high school, we teach essential emotional expression skills. Further, these self-care skills promote confidence, self-worth, and self-care. So, we help lay a foundation for successful independent living one day. Really, your teen needs positive mechanisms for letting go of these feelings.
To begin, use the button below to book your free phone consult for your teenager to learn creative stress outlets.
Niantic Teen Therapy For Self-Confidence and Mental Wellness
We help East Lyme teenagers in therapy feel understood and develop leadership skills. And, we help anxious teenagers in counseling in Niantic develop positive coping skills fo releasing anger. Teen anger, easy to express, is a sign of deeper loss, sadness, and abandonment underneath. To note, teen impulsivity is a big deal. So, if your teenage boy is sneaking alcohol and drinking, he needs professional teen therapy. Sometimes, your teenager doesn’t think before he acts.
Any prior hospitalizations?
And, your teenagers had prior hospitalizations for suicidal thoughts and self-harm. After hospitalizations, your teenager went back to high school. But, shortly again back to the psych ward. At the psych ward, your teen shared about depression.
Often times, teen anger, alcoholism, and hospitalizations all go together
Alcoholism, it runs in the family. At one time, you had an alcohol problem, but kept it together. But, your teen saw drinking as a way to release. At another time, their other parent was an alcoholic. Now, your frustrated teenager is cutting classes at East Lyme High School. Next, you hear that your teenager to a hit of a vape in the East Lyme High school bathroom. Now, your angry teenager is turning to alcohol and being reckless. On a positive note, your teenager did get their first job recently.
Do you want a caring, nurturing counselor for your teenage girl?
At Wisdom Within Counseling in Niantic, Connecticut, our team of marriage and family therapists specialize with teen girls. First, teenager girls need a personalized therapy experience in order to feel confident, better self-esteem, and self-love. Often, teenage girls in counseling just need reassurance alongside self-care skills. From here, we often help teenage girls avoid needing to take medication for depression or anxiety. So, look no further for a holistic counselor for teenage girls in Southeastern Connecticut. From art therapy, yoga therapy, music, to animal and outdoor walk and talk, we know how to help teenagers love life again.
Does your teen have strained family relationships that are leading to alcoholism and anger?
Your teenager and their father don’t get along well. And, your teenager and their father have a tough time connecting. In short, your teen wants approval, but often is yelled at to to better. So, you are wondering if your teen’s drinking and alcoholism stems from their negative relationship with their father. But, your frustrated teenager needs a professional teen expert, outside of the family, to process these feelings. And, your teenager didn’t like counseling in the past. So, you are really hoping that a creative, out of the box approach will help. To note, counseling frustrated teenagers is what we do best at Wisdom Within Counseling!
Wisdom Within Counseling in Niantic: Specializing in Teen Depression Therapy
If your teen has body image issues and self-harms, we can help teach positive coping skills for college years and beyond.
We specialize with angry teens who self-harm, have an eating disorder, don’t do homework, are jealous of siblings, are bisexual, need healthy dating boundaries, and want LGBTQIA+ teen counseling
Young Adult Counseling in Niantic at Wisdom Within Counseling
We help young adults after graduating high school transition to college, make friends away from home, process loss of a break up, learn how to move out, get a job, and manage anxiety, as well as LGBTQIA+ counseling and coming out.
East Lyme, Connecticut, Holistic Teen Depression Management
Plus, teen depression management, anger management, alcoholism, vaping, and healthy dating skills are part of what we teach. When it comes to counseling for young adults, we help offer resilient strategies around young adult relationships and break ups. As a young adult, we help you let go of anxiety and step into self-discovery in positive, holistic ways. At times, young adults slip, get a DUI. You may find yourself with a drinking problem. Now, you are remembering that your parents had alcohol problems too, and want to change your family patten.
Niantic, Connecticut Teen Alcohol Use Specialists
There is no manual for how to raise a teenager with an addiction. But, as teen therapists, we are experts when it comes to teaching teens positive coping skills. In conclusion, our team of teen specialists help depressed teenagers see the bright side to life. And, we offer teenagers in counseling a variety of coping mechanisms from art, to outdoor walking sessions, to learn self-love.
How do we treat teen addiction at Wisdom Within Counseling holistically?
Overall, we see teen addiction and young adult alcoholism as systemic. Which means, that teen addiction and teen drinking are often a family pattern that keeps repeating itself until mind-body healing and therapy is available. Our team of teen therapists in Niantic would love to help your teen through holistic, creative art therapies to live a sober life.
How do past trauma and generational family experiences impact teen addiction?
First, as a loving parent looking back on your life. Also, you, yourself, may have grown up where one or both of your parents used substances and alcohol. So, there is a history of addiction in your family genetically. Further, growing up in a house where your parent were fighting with each other, yelling, throwing dishes, even neglecting, was so hard. And, because they were hungover, and you didn’t get your childhood needs met, this is trauma. So, simply yelling puts your childhood body into fight, flight, freeze, and retreat mode. In Niantic, Connecticut, our team of creative therapists help teens with developing healthy outlets for releasing negative feelings in positive ways.
To begin, click the pink button below to book your free phone consult for ten addiction therapy.
Would you like to break the cycle of addition in your family by getting specialized teen therapy in Niantic?
In addition, teens learn by example. So, as a parent is important to have healthy outlets yourself. To note, the stress of living with an addict or alcoholic, can lead to issues in adult relationships with trust and attachment. Sadly, if teen alcoholism isn’t addressed, these issues stay with your teen into adult years and negatively impact marriage and family life.
How generations of alcoholism impact your teen?
And, the yelling makes things worse. So, if you and your teen get into yelling arguments, without professional help, these issues will only escalate. In general, that traumatic feeling can stay with you long into adulthood and parenting years. Now, looking at your teenagers’s life, a new, healthier future is possible by getting them into specialized teen therapy in Southeastern Connecticut today. Many times, addiction and negative behaviors last into adult years and break up marriages. This is because teens don’t learn the positive coping skills when they are young teens with an addiction.
Teen Alcohol and Substance Use Can Be A Trauma Response
When a child or adolescent experiences trauma, without support or therapy, a teen tries to survive the emotional rollercoaster, by using numbing behaviors. For instance, losing a beloved parent to a sudden death or cancer is trauma that, when unresolved, leads to addiction and alcoholism. It is a form of numbing that needs to be addressed as soon as possible to prevent severe addition into adulthood, marriage, and parenting. As a child grows into a teenager, alcohol and drug use may be a way your teenager non-verbally asks for help.
Non-verbal signs are a cry for support, attention, and professional counseling services. Our team of professional teen specialists would love to help your teen build a healthier relationship with him or herself. Wisdom Within Counseling teaches your teen positive skills to handle their feelings related to a parent’s divorce or a recent move in healthier ways than turning to drugs or alcohol.
The Earlier The First Use, The Greater The Change Of Severe Addiction In Adult Years
Further, depressed teenagers who do not have support, acceptance, or belonging when struggling with LGBTQ+ issues, sexual identity or sexual orientation often turn to drugs and alcohol. They disassociate from mind and body with drugs and alcohol because they feel unsafe. These patterns continue to negatively impact an adult their whole lives.
Art, Yoga, Music, Animals, and Walking Therapies
The team of teen therapists in Niantic provide mind-body therapies such as yoga, art, nutrition, and music to treat the source of teen addiction and alcoholism because talking alone is ineffective.
To begin, click the button below to build positive coping tools for overcoming teen addiction and vaping.
We work with all ages, the feelings, family history, shame, and fears that arise surrounding how family life is affected by substance abuse. Our services include an assessment and evaluation of substance use, an individualized strength-based plan that is often coordinated with 12-step Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and Narcotics Anonymous (NA) meetings, language of a higher power, animal therapy, walking, and yoga therapy.
Counselor for teenagers in Niantic, Connecticut
Creative counselors for teenage at Wisdom Within Counseling in Niantic, Connecticut teach self-esteem tools. These prepare your teenager for lifelong success to overcome any difficult emotion.
Benefits of having a counselor for your teenager
Improvements in self-worth, self-esteem, and self-acceptance skills
Having a counselor for for your teenage girl can help her love her body and have a good body image
Positive role modeling for independent living one day
Build a positive foundation for emotional expression into adult years
Our counselors for teenage girls provide encouragement and kindness
Family and Individual Therapy Sessions
Additionally, when it comes to teen addiction, we offer counseling for family members who are impacted emotionally by a loved one’s addiction or alcoholism. And, you may want to show your love, but also have a desire to implement healthy boundaries. In coordination with compassionate therapy, we provide comprehensive and in-depth substance abuse education. Getting your adolescent set up with a teen addiction counselor can help them learn to tolerate distressing emotions. Jealousy, anger, anxiety, or even uncertainty can cause a teenager to want to drink or vape.
To begin, click the pink button below to book your free phone consult for teen therapy.
Parenting A Teen Through Sobriety And Recovery
The animal assisted therapy groups we provide foster a safe and empathetic connection, facilitating the core values of sobriety and recovery. The animal therapy groups, teens no longer feel like they are the problem in the family needing to be fixed. Rather, a teen struggling with an addiction feels they are a part of their own positive therapeutic process.
Did You Know? Get Expert Teen Counseling in East Lyme Help Sooner Than Later
In fact, adolescents who began using addictive substances, like alcohol and drugs, before age fifteen are nearly seven times more likely to develop a severe substance problem than those teens who use after age 21. Aslo, our team of therapists would love to help your adolescent or teen build positive coping skills. Our team of teen specialists at Wisdom Within Counseling in Niantic love helping teens learn to treat their emotions with compassion.
We help teenagers develop positive self-talk and emotional resilience.
Wisdom Within Counseling is located in Niantic, CT and provides holistic, creative mental health counseling services. We serve people of Southern Connecticut and the Connecticut shoreline. Towns and cities in these areas include: Niantic, East Lyme, Old Lyme, Lyme Shores, Essex, Deep River, Chester, Ivoryton, Mystic, Uncasville, Montville, Ledyard, Stonington, North Stonington, Old Saybrook, Fenwick, Westbrook, Clinton, Madison, Mason’s Island, Guilford.
