Do You Know An Anxious Child?
Is your child not speaking anymore? Or only speaking in certain environments? As well, is your child talking about concerning things like death or dying? Play therapists in East Lyme, Connecticut help children talk through play. Children leave play therapy sessions feeling relaxed, lighter and brighter. Children can’t speak about their feelings like adults can through words. So, play therapists step into a fearful child’s world to build trust and get to know their true nature.
Children need a safe place to play out various bad memories and events that have happened to them.
Now, play therapy for children in Niantic, Connecticut serves as a metaphor through which your child can safely express their feelings. Moreover, children learn to navigate relationships and share emotions through play. Play is a child’s easiest language to talk. And, play therapists understand and assess what preschoolers are feeling. So, if your child isn’t acting as they should and has strange curiosities are concerning, we can help. At Wisdom Within Counseling, you have found the right place.
To get started, book a phone consult for play therapy using the pink button.
Is your child struggling with listening, lying, or behaviors issues?
If your child is experiencing any of the following, play and child therapy may be helpful. Frequently, children with anxiety disorders have trouble sleeping and easily cry.
Attachment anxiety is very real and child therapy can help build social confidence. Play therapy helps reduce family and school stress. Children who are experiencing divorce or a new sibling born May develop tearfulness, stop speaking, selective mutism, OCD, or anxiety symptoms. As well, we work with children with eating disorders, feeding issues, food sensitivities, anorexia, and bulimia using play therapy. Play therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut helps reduce anger control problems and improves self-regulation.
To add, play therapy helps somatoform disorders, sensory processing disorders, depression, and trauma.
Also, children learn to communicate with others in creative ways. Play therapy supports children in expressing feelings and helps with better behavior. Sometimes, children need a safe place to learn necessary friendship and social skills. Plus, play therapy can help children become more respectful and responsible for their behaviors. As well, play therapy helps young children develop more successful strategies for problems. Play therapy supports children in building empathy and understanding the emotions of others.
Furthermore, behavioral and emotional issues develop that can prevent your child from being confident and learning in school. And, your child with ADHD can feel comfortable being him or herself with the creative, holistic, movement therapies we offer in Niantic, Connecticut.
Now, play therapies help children be children feel safe to thrive again after divorce. Children may feel torn or like they have to pick sides. This feeling of being torn can cause fighting and frustration. Children may also internalize blame after a divorce and think they caused it. Overall, child therapy helps a little one learn that they didn’t cause their family’s divorce or separation. A therapist, someone outside of their family, can help a child develop positive self talk.
Further, being outside in nature and playing in counseling allows a child to feel safe in the midst of family changes.
As well, if a child experiences arguing adults or yelling, they may need help understanding how to release anger in healthy ways themselves. Play therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut helps children build anger management skills and release intense emotions. And, the loss of a pet can be a huge moment for a child. Loss of a grandparent is a huge change for parents and children. Therefore, expert child and teen therapists in Niantic help your child feel confident after these changes and loss. Lastly, we teach children how to cope in healthy ways through unavoidable life changes.
How Is Play Healing?
Many parents have this same concern, “I feel like my child is playing in sessions and avoiding talking about their anxiety and my recent divorce. I think my child is missing the point of therapy.” Just so you know, you aren’t alone.
Play therapy can be combined with talking, which helps your child overcome his or her anxieties, fears, worries and other overwhelming, new emotions in a safe way. Read more about therapy for children and adolescents, here.
To begin, click the button below for play therapy.
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Some Examples Of Unique, Creative Child, Tween, and Teen Therapies
A young child, year years old, going through a parents divorce, who is talking less and less at school, and acting up can benefit from play therapy. For example, a game of hide and seek outside with his or her therapist can help him or her feel like a child again and safe in the midst of family changes.
Evidence-Based Play Therapy Research
In a recent study, Bratton et.al (2012) enrolled 54 preschoolers in play therapy vs. a control group. All children were from disadvantaged communities and of many races. The school teachers rated the children’s behavior before and after the study. The results stated that play therapy significantly decreased aggressiveness and increases in attention. Children in the play therapy group also improved in their communication skills. There was no change seen in the control group.
Adults Talk, While Children Play
Adults talk about their problems and often feel supported and relieved when they get to talk to a close friend. However, it can be hard for a child to talk about their emotion because it brings the focus back to their problem needing to be fixed. Your child can express their needs, desires, worries, and feeling through play.
Play therapy also honors your child’s unique developmental level in their childhood and helps because play “is the language of the child.”
Did you know? Your child is doing a lot of “talking” through their behaviors while playing!
Your child feels safe playing and through play, they can get their needs met and then feels safe taking. Play therapy also helps to create a safe relationship and build therapeutic connection and from that level of trust, it helps your child express them self and work to resolve problems.
We would love to talk about your concerns and worries in a parent session in addition to your child’s weekly session. Read more, here. We are glad to answer any questions!
Play, Creative Art, and Yoga Therapy For Children
And, children can feel self-confident, resilient, and have better communication skills with friends. Further, child learn best through play therapies, which allow them to feel safe. And, after a child feels safe and trusts a therapist, then he or she will open up. Then, from specialized child therapy that is holistic, creative, and positive, your child can feel strong after trauma and trust again.
And, we provide experiential family therapy. Each therapy session is a positive experience. As well, video counseling, TeleTherapy, and distance counseling, are available from the comfort of your location. We believe creative people will change the world. At times, it can be difficult for a child, adolescent, or teen to talk about their emotions. Therefore, we offer a highly effective, whole-body approach. So, children can use play therapy alongside holistic yoga, art, yoga, music, and animal therapy groups along with talking.
