COUNSELING TO HELP YOUR FAMILY FIND CONFIDENCE AND CLARITY
Autism counseling
We help teenagers with autism learn social skills for making friends and develop a self-care plan for living independently one day.
To begin, autism counseling in East Lyme, Connecticut offers both parent support techniques as well as coping skills for your teenager. Also, the team of therapists help your teenager with autism feel safe, accepted, and a sense of belonging. Often, teenagers with autism tend to be bullied, which leads to low self-worth. Along the shoreline in Southeastern Connecticut, Wisdom Within Counseling is a highly specialized counseling center. Overall, we help teenagers with autism feel confident in their unique abilities and supported outside of home and school. From here, autism counseling helps support social and self-care skills for independent living one day.
Hoe do we help teens with autism?
If you think of you teenager has autism and you are looking for a diagnosis, we can provide that for you. Further, our team of teen specialists help teens with autism learn self-care skills, positive techniques for reducing anxiety, and develop social-emotional learning. To note, when a teen has autism or autism spectrum disorder (ASD), he or she will not be able to read body language or body language. Additionally, your teen with ASD may be a perfectionist, have anger issues, and even be disrespectful without realizing it. Therefore, when it comes to therapy for teens with ASD, your teen can feel supported in mind, body, and spirit through holistic therapy.
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Are you looking for socializing and creative support for your teenager with autism to feel prepared for high school?
Often, teens with ASD also experience anxiety and depression. Likewise, other secondary conditions may include chronic pain, poor hygiene, self-harm, communication disorders, and even Tourette’s syndrome. Further, the transition from middle school and 8th grade to high school can be huge. In Niantic, it is difficult to find specialized therapy for teens with ASD. But, now, you are looking for specialized support for your adolescent with autism through more than just talk counseling. Finally, holistic counseling can be exactly what you are looking for. Now, your teen with autism can use art, yoga, music, and animal therapies to go beyond talking for emotional release, develop self-confidence, and social skills.
Would you like your teen with autism to have positive coping skills to live independently one day?
And, since your teenager with autism doesn’t like to talk, you are thinking art therapy and outdoor walk and talk session would be a good fit. Painting, drawing, and being creative are your teen’s strengths. Furthermore, creative therapy for teens with ASD is personalized to help your teen with what they need that day. For example, if your adolescent with autism wants an outdoor session because they have a lot of energy, we love going outside in the sun. Or, on some days, your teen with ASD may need more calming, relaxing strategies like guided meditation or art.
How does holistic, Niantic animal therapy help teens with ASD?
Plus, animal therapy groups in East Lyme can give your teen social confidence without the fear of bullying. And, with a focus on the hands-on experience of animals, your teen with ASD can look forward to socializing in a group. Additionally, therapy for teens with ASD is unique and different when it comes to animal therapy. So, you teen can be a part of a group, hold, pet, and touch animals. It is a full, beautiful, and amazing sensory experience. To note, if your teen is afraid or anxious around an animal, your son or daughter can observe, or choose work through that anxiety in a safe setting. And, in therapy for teens with ASD you adolescent can learn about how animals feel emotions to relate to humans.
COUNSELING TO HELP YOUR FAMILY FIND CONFIDENCE AND CLARITY
Are you looking for a mental health professional specializing in holistic autism counseling?
Often, autism counseling in East Lyme helps teenagers communicate better. From fear, to worry, to anger, teens can learn how to cope with negative emotions in healthy ways through holistic autism counseling. At Wisdom Within Counseling in East Lyme, autism counseling includes art, yoga, music, animals, and outdoor therapies. Finally, having a professional outside of your family for your teenager can support coping skill development. Further East Lyme autism counseling for teenagers may include a walk and talk session to get ice cream.
Niantic, Connecticut Teen Therapy Outside
Or, teen boys with autism benefit from an outdoor walking therapy session, that doesn’t involve eye contact. Or, a teenage girl with self-harm behaviors can use creative art and painting to release feelings stuck inside. And, for sibling sessions, adolescent boys who have a lot of energy can take their session outside in the sun. Their East Lyme therapist will throw the frisbee around, use nature, and support development of self-confidence through the outdoors and fresh air.
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Would you like your teen to feel accepted, stronger, and learn positive coping mechanisms?
Further, since your teenager with ASD doesn’t like to be in public, you are worried about his or her transition to high school. Also, with being resistant to most social situations, you are worried that your teen will miss out on key, important social skills in teenage years. From art, yoga, music, and animal therapies, your teen with ASD can feel a sense of belonging. Moreover, being fourteen years old, is a time of transition in and of itself. Bodies are changing, which means hygiene skills and self-care routines are essential for maintaining friendships. Also, your teen could really use healthy friendship skills. But, you want someone outside of your family to help your teen with dating goals and talking about sexuality. So, our team of creative therapists help adolescents and teens with ASD. To get your middle schooler with ASD started in creative counseling, call/text 860-451-9364.
Is there a big social gap between your teen with autism (ASD) and peers?
First, your teenager is socially immature. Which means, that he or she is not on the same level as his or her age. And, being on the autism spectrum means that your teenager probably doesn’t even realize this about their peers. So, when looking for Niantic therapy for teens with ASD, you want your teen’s creativity embraced. So, through a holistic approach and therapy for teens with ASD, we support your teen’s unique talents! Since teens with autism lack self-awareness, we can help teach self-care and social skills in fun ways. And, going for a walk and talk session by the beach can boost their self and offer a positive outlet for stress. If you teen loves cats, we can talk about how cats feel emotions such as frustration or happiness. Often, when adolescents and teenagers with autism get frustrated, they tend to lash out. Therefore, art, yoga, music, and animal therapies can become healthy ways of releasing feelings in ways beyond just words.
COUNSELING TO HELP YOUR FAMILY FIND CONFIDENCE AND CLARITY
Does your adolescent with autism say socially awkward things?
At times, your adolescent on the autism spectrum says wildly inappropriate things. And, these cause you to be concerned about high school next year. At East Lyme middle school, your adolescent with autism wants to be with the popular group. However, there is a big social gap between your adolescent with ASD and other adolescents. Therefore, the team at Wisdom Within Counseling can help your son or daughter develop social awareness for high school. Finally, in holistic therapy for teens with ASD, you teen can feel stronger, more resilient, social appropriate conversation topics, and like they are awesome.
Social-emotional development for overall wellness for teens on the autism spectrum in Niantic
More over, for a teen with ASD, their brain can get “tunnel vision,” where they get fixated and stuck on a thought. Also, many teens with autism have specific intelligence areas that need refining, so he or she can act in socially appropriate ways. So, creative therapy for teens with ASD helps your teen have better behavior at school and at home with siblings. Without support and therapy for ASD, your teen may miss the mark when it comes to dating. Because they might be the odd ball or not as mature, without therapy, he or she may feel excluded and different in a negative way. In conclusion, therapy for teens with ASD includes art, yoga, music, and animal therapies for self-expression, self-care, and self-acceptance.
COUNSELING TO HELP YOUR FAMILY FIND CONFIDENCE AND CLARITY
Does your teen have trouble reading body language? Awkward socially?
And, you teen may need help learning to read body language when it comes to dating, or even how to get out there and make new friends. And, overall from therapy for teens with ASD, he or she can learn how to have a flowing conversation. Self-awareness is a technique that takes time to learn just like math or science. So, from therapy for teens with autism, your son or daughter can learn to be considerate of other people’s emotions. Read about our teen girls group, which helps teen girls with ASD develop positive body image and self-confidence, here.
Would you like your teenager to have a great self-care routine?
Through therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling in Niantic, our team of teen therapists can help you teen with autism learn socially appropriate skills and self-care routines. For instance, your middle schooler or high schooler with ASD may not brush their teeth regularly. So, as a parent, you may be tired of reminding your teen to put on deodorant, shower, and brush their teeth. Therefore, therapy for teens with ASD in Niantic can help get your teen on the right track with self-care and hygiene routines for independent living. Because it comes from a professional, not a parent, your teen’s therapist can help support self-care!
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Holistic skill-based therapy in Niantic for teens with autism
To add, people use executive skills when they make plans and to stay organized. But, many teens with autism have trouble keeping track of time, brushing their teeth in the morning, and reading emotions. At Wisdom Within Counseling in Niantic, we help teens with autism learn positive coping skills to reach daily goals. Plus, your teen with autism can be successful academically.
What is unique and different about holistic counseling for autism counseling?
From therapy that incorporates art, yoga, music, and animals, your teen on the autism spectrum can build emotionally-focused relationships. In Niantic, we teach teens with autism how to ask for help, maintain self-control, and work successfully in a group. In conclusion, your adolescent or teen on the autism spectrum can feel confident, learn coping skills to release emotions in positive ways.
The team at Wisdom Within Counseling love working with teens with autism.
