Do you have an anxious child or young adult who would benefit from talking and an outdoor, expressive arts, or nature-based approach to identify anxiety, express anger, and overcome loss or divorce?
We offer family and marriage therapy in CT for confidence and clarity. Children with ADHD can use outdoor play therapy to move on after loss of a sibling or trauma. Also, teenagers with depression, self-harm behaviors, and anxiety can benefit from their own therapist. Overall, family and marriage therapy in CT helps all members maintain positive connections.
Is your relationship or marriage highly conflictual, aggressive, angry, and do you want help creating a calm, secure, strong, nurturing, loving relationship and marriage?
To add, divorce can impact children differently than adults. So, marriage counseling is a great step before making that decision. Therapy with Wisdom Within Counseling is like personal training for your emotional wellness. Proudly, we offer bisexual, gay, lesbian, gender questioning, transgender affirming family and marriage therapy in CT. In your marriage, we are happy to discuss pronouns, sexuality, gender expression, and gender questioning feelings.
Our team of marriage and family therapists in Connecticut teach positive coping skills and holistic ways to release challenging feelings in healthy ways.
Our integrative, mind-body approach combines creative, alternative, and positive psychotherapies with more traditional techniques such as talking. With that said, we specialize in our-of-the-box therapies that go beyond “couch therapy.” More often, our team does not take a “diagnose and prescribe” approach.
Help for preschoolers to young adults in their 30’s
A creative play therapy approach in Southeastern Connecticut, Niantic
Many families find us because they are looking for alternatives and coping skills to utilize instead of using traditional psychiatric medication. Therefore, our therapists collaborate with you, personalizing therapy, to create a truly custom experience, unique to your needs. You get to pick from art, yoga, music, animals and outdoor therapies!
Wisdom Within Counseling along the shoreline of Connecticut in Niantic offers children, teens, and young adults a creative approach.
Specifically, art, yoga, music, animals and outdoor therapies support self confidence and self-value. Rather than jumping to medication, our team of therapists likes to get to know your child and family first. Instead, you and you loved one can learn positive coping techniques through creative art, yoga, music, animals, and outdoor walk and talk therapies.
We offer in person and online Telehealth counseling sessions.
COUNSELING TO HELP YOUR FAMILY FIND CONFIDENCE AND CLARITY
Niantic Award Program Honors Wisdom Within Counseling 2019
NIANTIC September 2, 2019 — Wisdom Within Counseling, LLC has been selected for the 2019 Best of Niantic Award in the Family Counselor category by the Niantic Award Program.
Who Can Benefit From Unique Holistic Therapies?
Overall, we help anxious children, teens, and busy young professionals. Likewise, young adult years can be a time of overwhelm and panic especially if you live with PTSD, trauma, anxiety, depression, an eating disorder, or self-image issues. From therapy, you get to feel joy for life, get clear on communicating your feelings, and create meaningful, healthy, fulfilling connections with others. Together, we’ll explore how to get to a place where your worries, traumas and negative emotions no longer rule you. Instead, our team loves helping children, teens and young adults overcome the past and resilliently and confidently take on the future.
What Do We Do At Wisdom Within Counseling?
First, we are a team of holistic therapists who help each client explore how to make meaningful connections with others! And, our team of therapists specialize in helping children, adolescents, teenagers, and young adults. At times, it can be difficult for a child, adolescent, or teen to talk about their emotions. So, we use creative, holistic art, yoga, music, and outdoor walk and talk sessions to teach self-confidence. Further, we believe creative people will change the world.
The Problem: Why Doesn’t Talk Therapy Alone Work For Anxious Children or Distant Teens?
However, talk therapy usually doesn’t work for teenagers because it can make them feel like more of a problem and internalizes shame and guilt. Instead, I use creative therapies to help depressed teens including art, yoga, music, and outdoor therapies to provide connection in mind, body, and spirit. Your teen will feel safe and build trust through creative, strength-based therapies. Read about outdoor, walk and talk sessions here. These skills are a foundation for self-care and whole person wellness. And, your teen can use these skills throughout their whole life.
Mission
Katie Ziskind, the owner, started the practice in 2018 as a safe place for children, teens, and young adults with anxiety. The team of creative therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling in Niantic help ADHD, PTSD (trauma), and teens with eating disorders heal. Also, Katie Ziskind is licensed marriage and family therapist and trauma specialist in Niantic. Start getting clear on your family goals through Niantic therapy.
How Is Teen Therapy At Wisdom Within Counseling Unique and Different?
You’ve tried hospitalizations for self harm and cutting. You tried medication and you tried other types of therapy. And, we know that as a parent, you feel exhausted and frustrated at times.
Therefore, we use holistic therapies including art, yoga, music and walking sessions to help teens and couples feel confident and love themselves rather than choosing negative coping skills.
Art, Yoga, Music, Outdoor Therapy, & Animal Therapy
In our offices, we offer cozy rooms with couches and art materials. We also have a room specifically for you to learn yoga therapy techniques for stress. Additionally, yoga therapy is private, one-on-one, and personalized for you. Yoga teaches a positive coping skill of emotional relaxation and self-awareness. It helps children and adults feel confident and strong as well as calm their mind.
An Integrative, Holistic, and Different Approach – Counseling integrating mind, body, and spirit
I use mind-body techniques such as art, yoga, and music along with talk counseling. Spirituality is tied into my work. And, I support gentle emotional expression and healing holistically. Further, moving out stuck energy through art, yoga, or walking can create a positive space for a new beginning in your young adult’s life!
Is your child or teen regressing?
Is she simply not the same bubbly, outgoing girl she once was? Our team of creative therapists in Niantic often work with teen girls in holistic counseling with art and yoga. In East Lyme, Wisdom Within Counseling offers alternatives to traditional psychiatric medication. Plus, the Niantic therapists offer self confidence skills and positive coping techniques for high school and college years. We offer in person and online counseling sessions. To get your child or teen started in learning self confidence skills through creative counseling in Niantic, call 860-451-9364.
Is Your Teen Anxious or Depressed?
Every day, all day, the Wisdom Within Counseling team works with frustrated kids and angry young adults. I love it! With a few tweaks and very specialized holistic therapy not offered anywhere else in the area, I can help your frustrated teen stop negative behaviors and learn positive skills to express their feelings in healthy ways. So, my office is different and unique to embrace your teen’s strengths. Further, I help your teen boost self confidence through art, yoga and music.
How Does Wisdom Within Counseling Help Depressed Teens Stop Self-Harming?
Further, it is important to nip teen self harm, teen depression and negative skills in the bud otherwise they will only get worse into adult years. And, if your teenager is drinking alcohol now, help today is the only option for them to see their bright future ahead. Additionally, social emotional skills are not taught in school. The positive skills are what will help your teen pick healthy friendships and relationships when dating. We teach young adults positive skills to handle intense feelings in a healthy way for college years and beyond.
Similarly, traditional talk therapy does not work for self harming teens because your young adults only feels like a problem needing to be fixed. Instead, your child or teen can choose to use art, yoga, and music that for emotional expression. Additionally, at Wisdom Within Counseling in East Lyme, I strive to provide a safe place for your family. From the security and trust from weekly therapy sessions with me, your child/adolescent will feel secure within themselves, inspired to be unique and different, love themselves for their strengths, and create a life they love.
Has Your Teen Been Through Their First Break Up?
Again, teens have a lot of feelings. Next, your teen is depressed because they just went through their first, major break up. Your depressed teen is feeling the most sad that they’ve ever been. Also, a first break up is devastating. Your depressed teenager is withdrawing, isolating and without professional intervention and therapy, these feeling will only get worse. Similarly, loneliness can trigger to host of others feelings including self-blame, shame, insecurity, and guilt.
Learn Positive Self-Talk
Lastly, I would love to help remind your anxious child or depressed teenager that they are good enough. In therapy, your child learns positive coping skills to get through this tough time. From there, they can feel stronger and create healthy relationships. Call or text to get started 860-451-9364.
Has Parenting Your Adolescent Put A Strain On Your Family Unit?
As a parent, having a child or frustrated young adult who is extra sensitive, on the autism spectrum, anxious, or self-harming can be really difficult. No one ever said this is what family life would look like. Right now, you feel helpless. And, you want to feel in control. But, you’ve lost your sense of balance and motivation. Perhaps you’ve recently had a change like separation, having a baby, moving, or your oldest child is starting high school. Also, for your convenience, we offer phone and video counseling. To start learning positive skills, call or text to get started 860-451-9364.
Even the most welcome changes come with added stress.
All of these changes interfere with you parenting and your couple bubble, which can put a strain on your family. In addition to weekly sessions for your child, we do parent-only sessions, which you can read about, here.
Has Your Child or Teen’s Behavior Made Home Life Frustrating?
Now, your child or teenager’s depression, negative behaviors, anger outbursts, and self harm has a negative impact on your family, other children, and your marriage. I would love to help your whole family function better through holistic marriage and family therapy in East Lyme. Call/Text to get started today (860)-451-9364.
Are You, Your Child, or Your Teen Gender Non-Conforming? I Accept Your LGBTQIA+ Family Just As You Are
You, your child, and your LGBT family gets to talk about your gender non-conforming feelings, sexuality, and speak to emotions related to being transgender. Gender-questioning people welcome! Your deepest fears, thoughts, secrets, and LGBTQIA+ expression are safe in my office in Niantic. To start, we are transgender educated therapists and advocate for LGBTQIA+ 🏳️🌈 youth and families. To continue, we love working with transgender children, teenagers, and their families. We are transgender advocating therapists who help create a positive support network with medical professionals.
If you’re confused as a spouse or parent about your loved one’s gender, we are here to educate you and to support your family.
Parent Support For Bisexual Teens, and Lesbian, Gay, Transgender Youth
However, you might be confused and uncomfortable as a parent, and have your own fears and questions. Do note, your 100% support is the foundation, safety and security of broader social and community acceptance for your LGBT teen. Without family support and acceptance, your teen will self harm. Essentially, family support is essential to preventing suicide and self harm when it comes to LGBT expression. We would love to help you and your teenager feel accepted and feel like they belong in the world again. We help adults and couples develop confidence around gender expression, sexuality, and sexual orientation.
Would You Like Your Child or Teen To Learn Positive Self-Care and Coping Skills For Lifelong Health?
From that security within them self through art and yoga therapies in Niantic, your teen can create a bright future and look forward to tomorrow.
You and Your Family Will Learn Many Self-Care Skills
With out proper, effective relaxation techniques in their social emotional tool kit, your anxious teen will experience burn out, digestive problems, eating disorders, headaches, and physical symptoms of overcommitting their schedule. Your teen’s physical symptoms of anxiety will only get worse into adult years. It is essential to get help today. I would love to be the holistic therapist that supports your teenager through life long, personalized art, yoga and music therapy in Niantic.
Holistic family and marriage therapy in CT
Does Your Child or Teen Need Stress Management Skills?
Your teen may be a perfectionist and academically getting really good grades. However, you know that your anxious young adult is out of balance and overwhelmed. He/she say “yes” to too many responsibilities. And, feels anxiety as a result of committing to too much. I would love to teach your overwhelmed, anxious young adult scheduling balance, and how to set healthy boundaries. Relaxation through yoga therapy, inner peace via meditation, and downtime are just as important as being motivated.
Adolescent and Teen Therapy
Additionally, depression and distance in teens should never go untreated or be ignored. It’s important to get help right away or these feelings can lead to resentment and problems at home and later in life. Through holistic therapy in Niantic, I teach essential, lifelong positive coping skills such as breathing techniques, yoga poses, and guided meditations to help your young adult take back their wisdom, harness their personal power, and feel strong within themselves to say no to peer pressure.
Similarly, talking can be challenging at times, especially for children, young adults, young couples, and teenagers. So, we combine art, yoga, music, outdoor therapies with talking.
Therefore, we specialize and help frustrated kids, angry teens and distant couples. Hence, we help families build positive coping skills, express emotions and get clear on their goals for connection and communication. In conclusion, we would love to help your anxious adolescent, you, or young adult feel awesome in their skin.
Holistic, creative family and marriage therapy in CT
Family and Marriage Therapy in Lyme, CT
To note, when personal problems become overwhelming, the group of holistic therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling in Niantic offer caring and confidential counseling services within a safe and therapeutic environment. Moreover, providing professional guidance for couples and families, our licensed therapists can help you to find effective and realistic solutions to resolve the issues that are negatively affecting your marriage and family life.
Towns We Commonly Serve Along The Southeastern Shoreline of Connecticut
East Lyme, Niantic, Black Point Beach, Waterford, Old Lyme, Lyme, South Lyme, South Lyme Shores, Fenwick, Old Saybrook, Clinton, Westbrook, Madison, Killingworth, Deep River, Chester, Essex, East Haddam, Hadlyme, Salem, Colchester, New London, Mystic, Groton, Ledyard, Preston, Norwich, Montville, Uncasville, Stonington, North Stonington.
Distance Phone and Video Sessions Weekly Too
