Have you noticed changes in your teenager’s activities and behavior? Also, are you concerned that it is more than just a phase of bad decision making? And, is your teenager struggling with an eating disorder or self-harm? To note, teenagers need help from a professional to learn self-esteem tools. You’re in exactly the right place for the best help for your depressed or anxious adolescent or teenager. Teens with depression may be struggling with anger, jealousy, anxiety, hurt, loss, and body shame.
“First, my teen is distant, frustrated, and won’t talk to me.”
“They spend all their free time sleeping or in their room. Their grades are dropping.”
“Overall, their intense emotions are getting in the way of their school work.”
“I want my teen to learn positive coping skills and develop self-confidence for college years.”
“Also, my teenager is asking for a different name and telling me they are non-binary now. What does this mean?”
“They have been in therapy before and it wasn’t the right fit. We want a specialist for teens this time.”
“I didn’t like it when our last therapist told my teen to stop fidgeting and listen. And, I want something alternative, painting, and creative options in his therapy.”
“More so, my teen came out as transgender and pansexual and I want them to get support around healthy dating skills.”
Adolescent and teen depression therapy in Niantic, Connecticut
School-based anxiety, insecurity, eating disorders, and school frustration are a big deal. Signs of depression and anxiety include groaning, tight muscles, complaints, hyperventilating, and refusal. Furthermore, adolescents may have panic attacks before school or social anxiety. Teenagers with depression often separate and isolate from family and friends. Your teenager may be restricting calories or losing weight.
Therapy can help your adolescent learn positive self-talk.
Adolescents and teens need a therapist who knows how to step into their world. Creative anxiety coping mechanisms help your middle schooler or young adult establish inner balance and relaxation tools. Our team at Wisdom Within Counseling, support youth through specialized creative therapies. Your child, teenager or young adult can develop a toolbox of healthy coping skills for anxiety, depression, and to believe in him or herself.
Throughout life, you teen’s emotions may change such as moving, parents divorcing and friendships ending.
Your teenager may be crying more frequently, angry, or isolating when depressed. Handling challenging feelings in positive ways takes practice and the guidance of a specialized teen therapist. The skills in creative teen depression therapy in Niantic, Connecticut can lay a foundation for better self-esteem. Your teenager can gain tools for their own mental wellness and the ability to release and let go for their upcoming adulthood. Also, adolescents and teenagers can call on these creative skills to feel stronger and resist peer pressures.
To begin, click the button below for a phone consult for teen depression therapy.
Is your teenager withdrawing from your family, moody, and tearful?
At Wisdom Within Counseling, our team of therapists help teenagers who are depressed develop social confidence and self-care skills. To add, we offer teen walk and talk beachside depression help along the shoreline of Connecticut. For instance, walk and talk therapy outside is a natural remedy for lethargy. As well, we offer art, painting, clay and creative outlets for releasing big emotions. So, your teenager with depression can use clay, painting, and art therapy for creative expression to let go and feel a sense of peace. Overall, teen depression help in Niantic, Connecticut is holistic and personalized for creating self-love tools and motivation.
Specialized teen depression help, in Niantic, Connecticut
If you teenager is struggling with body shame or criticizes themselves, we can help. Our team at Wisdom Within Counseling in Niantic, specializes with teens who have negative body image issues. As well, adolescents and teenagers with depression may have negative coping tools like self–harm. Suicidal thinking in adolescents and teenagers is one of our specialities. The team at Wisdom Within Counseling teaches positive coping skills for self-acceptance for a bright outlook. When it comes to Southeastern Connecticut teen therapy, the holistic team of creative therapists know how to make and maintain a special, positive connection.
Why creative therapies?
Overall, a frustrated teenager may have a hard time connecting with a therapist who only offers talk counseling. We offer unique alternatives for expressing anger, sadness, fear, and anxiety. Wisdom Within Counseling specializes with adolescents and teenagers offering more than only talk therapy because teens feel calm from creative options. Giving creative alternatives in counseling also helps teenagers develop positive decision making skills and leadership.
Art and painting in teen depression therapy helps provide creative emotional outlets and lifelong coping tools for anxiety.
Is your teen regressing in negative behaviors? Is she simply not the same bubbly, outgoing teen they once were?
Our team of creative therapists in East Lyme, Connecticut often work with depressed and distant teens in holistic counseling. We offer self confidence skills and positive coping mechanisms for emotional stability. A teenager may feel upset if their friend becomes upset. So, we help teens regulate their emotions and learn what they can do to soothe themselves. The creative therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling support middle schoolers, high schoolers, and young adults in college.
Now, How Can Art Therapies Support Adolescents and Teenagers with Depression?
Often, adolescents get stuck in negative thinking and limiting beliefs. They may think they are too fat, or try to diet. As well, teens may get lost in their own thoughts, have emotional meltdowns, and need support. Your teen can use art therapy, yoga therapy, the outdoors, and be creative. Likewise, depressed adolescents and teenagers benefit from hands-on, experiential, creative art, music, yoga, animals, and play therapies alongside talking. Further, we teach self confidence and positive coping skills for a calmer family life.
To begin, click the button below for a phone consultation for adolescent and teen depression therapy.
We are experts with helping depressed teenagers believe in themselves and learn healthy coping outlets. We have a team of creative therapists help angry, self-harming teenagers, and distant young adults. Young adults can shift negative thoughts and behaviors and start to love life and feel optimistic about making new friends. Our speciality is holistic counseling for children, adolescents, and young adults.
Specializing in Niantic Therapy For Teenagers with Depression
Teen Depression Can Include An Eating Disorder and Self-Harming Behaviors
Is your teen isolating from peers and family? This is a sign of depression.You’ve noticed a change in behavior. Your once outgoing adolescent is now in their teen years, but has changed from a sweet child. Now, your depressed young adult may be anxious, angry, and is distant. And, withdrawing is hard for you as parents and their siblings. Often, when a teenager is depressed, they may also take part in self-harming, other negative behaviors like alcohol use. Read more about why your teen self-harms, here.
Adolescent and teen depression therapy helps rebuild self-esteem and positive coping skills
Furthermore, focusing with adolescents and young adults, we love offer art, yoga, music, and outdoor walking therapies. Often, teenagers struggle with releasing anxiety and depression. And, if your teenager feels pressure to succeed, get good grades, or is a perfectionist, we can help. Walk and talk therapy for teens helps in Niantic, Connecticut and is available at Wisdom Within Counseling. As well, on video counseling, your adolescent or teenager can talk about their gender or sexual orientation.
LGBTQIA+ exploration in teenagers is one of our specialities.
On that note, your teenager may come out as bisexual, pansexual, transgender, or demi romantic. There are many more LGBTQIA+ terms that come up for teenagers who are learning about their identity. Our team of therapists specialize in teenager who prefer they/them pronouns. Maybe, your teenager came out as queer or non-binary. As a parent, you may want family therapy sessions to help ease your concerns or questions. Wisdom Within Counseling specializes in LGBTQIA+ and transgender affirming care. Moodiness, and the ups and downs, are hard on your family and for your young adult. Lastly, in teen depression therapy, holistic coping tools and relaxation strategies support youth. And, these holistic therapies can support lifelong emotional wellness into college years.
Why seek teen depression therapy?
Likewise, teen depression and eating disorders often go hand in hand. Furthermore, teens who are sad also struggle with body image issues, eating issues, and drug or alcohol use. As well, your teenager or young adult may be identifying as non-binary, bisexual, or even transgender. Gender diversity and gender questioning feelings are common for young adults. Without coping tools and family acceptance, depression develops. Perhaps, your teenager is sexually active for the first time in life. Therapy can support healthy dating skills.
LGBTQIA+, non-binary gender expression and transgender teenagers
Sometimes, your adolescent may ask to be a different name. Or, your teenager may come out to you as bisexual and want to talk about their sexual orientation. Essentially, your teen’s therapist can help them gain support and clarity about their sexual orientation. Wisdom Within Counseling specializes in queer, gender questioning, transgender, and non-binary teenagers and young adults. As a parent, you may want family therapy to understand your teenager’s gender identity.
To add, eating disorders, body shame, and gender questioning feelings can go hand in hand.
Sometimes, teenagers are transgender and need support understanding how to advocate for themselves at school. Learn more about eating disorders, here. The team of adolescent and young adult specialists at Wisdom Within Counseling in Niantic love helping teens learn to love themselves and see a brighter side to life. In school, your teen is learning about math and science. In the same way, counseling support emotional education and positive coping tools. Therapy can be a safe place to learn about releasing intense emotions in healthy ways.
Has Your Young Adult Withdrawn?
In general, Katie Ziskind and the team of holistic therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling in Niantic are specialists at helping adolescents and young adults with depression. And, when you are looking for teen depression therapy in Connecticut or Florida we recommend holistic therapies. On that note, creative painting promotes releasing anxiety, anger, frustration, or loss. Perhaps, your teen is feeling upset by peer pressure, friends who are creating drama, or a parent’s divorce. Then, from teen depression therapy, your adolescent can learn it is healthy to let feeling out. Talking about feelings can become more normal from counseling.
Holistic therapies help teenagers learn coping skills for anger, anxiety, loss, and friendship issues.
Also, cutting and self-harm and negative communication skills that your teen is asking for help. Our team of teen depression therapists in Florida and Connecticut help self-harming teenagers. Cutting, self-injury, and self-harm are severe issues that don’t go away on their own. Also, a mixture of creative therapies and DBT therapies help teenager stop self-harming.
So, seeking the help of teen specialists means you have someone who loves helping teens. We use holistic, creative marriage and family therapy techniques in the Niantic, East Lyme, and Southeastern Connecticut area. Your teen can choose from art, yoga, music, animal, and walk and talk therapy sessions to gain positive coping skills.
To begin, use the pink button below to book a phone consultation for your teen’s therapy and positive coping strategies.
Why Should You Seek Only Expert Help For Your Young Adult?
Not all therapists work with teens. And, many aren’t aware of how to engage teens in their own therapy journey. Often, teens will not talk about their problems as if they are adults. But, when a therapist pressures a teen to talk, this pushes teens away from building trust and attachment with their therapist. As a teen specialist, your teen needs professional therapeutic help outside of your family support to effectively talk openly, let go, and learn positive coping skills. We offer art, yoga, music, drama therapy, and animal therapy groups to build trust and confidence.
As a result of your teen being in therapy, your whole family can function better.
Teen depression therapy can help parents and children get along better.
And, you and your teen can learn healthy communication skills. You might after fears or anxiety, and it pushes your teen away. And, when your teenager gets moody or withdrawals, it pushes you away. So, with family therapy within teen depression therapy, you won’t be frustrated as much. You don’t have to be in conflict or angry with each other anymore.
Overall, family therapy sessions can promote more positive parent and teen relationships.
From counseling, your relationship with your young adult can improve. Equally, your teen won’t need to yell, self-harm, use drugs, or punch holes in the walls. From teen depression therapy, they will have a safe place to release emotions in healthy ways. So, at Wisdom Within Counseling, working with a therapist here helps your teenager build self-esteem tools. In Niantic, Connecticut, working with a teen counselor includes walking therapies outdoors, art, painting, and music therapy. Also, drama therapy, art therapy, and yoga therapy promote mind-body connection. So, creative, holistic therapies help your adolescent have emotional support and coping outlets.
Animal Therapy Groups Boost Self-Confidence and Help Teen Depression
In addition to weekly sessions, your teen with depression can also attend the animal therapy groups. Also, these groups help depressed, self-harming teens develop positive coping skills by working with animals to deal with social anxiety, low motivation, and worry in healing ways. Also, teens learn essential social-emotional skills needed to interact with peers and build lasting relationships with friends. Your teen’s therapy journey will be unlike any other talk-only counseling service. Our team of teen therapists in Niantic are specialists with depressed, distant teens. Read about animal therapy, here.
Teen depression therapy locations
In addition to East Lyme, Connecticut, we help the following towns with teen depression and self-harm therapy: Fenwick, New Canann, Essex, Easton, Bridgewater, Easton, Darien, Tolland, Greenwich, Weston, Mystic, Washington, Kent, Madison, Ivoryton, Warren, Woodbridge, Stonington, Salisbury, Shelton, Killingworth, Bloomfield, Wilton, Rye, Westport, Avon, Wilton, Ridgefield, Glastonbury, Redding and West Hartford. Wisdom Within Counseling also offers video telehealth counseling to Florida and Massachusetts residents.
