Do you deeply need social confidence? Struggle with relationships?
For one, you may be so afraid to take the next step in your career, so instead you stay stuck in a negative work environment. If you’re afraid to get back in the game and start dating again, the therapists in Niantic, CT can help you work through fears and create a healthy relationship. Untreated anxiety, unfortunately, can cause chaos In your family and in your love life. Sometimes, when people have anxiety, they’ll try to push it aside with negative behaviors. For instance, people use drugs, drink caffeine in excess, develop alcoholism, emotions less sex, self-harm, binge eat, take prescription medication in excess, and others reckless behaviors as negative forms of self-medication. Call/text 860-451-9364 for holistic counseling and meditation for anxiety treatment in Niantic, CT.
So, what is anxiety anyway?
Really, anxiety is either regret from the past and wishing you could go back and change something. Or, anxiety is anticipation about the future, and trying to plan the future before it arrives. For holistic anxiety therapy, art, and meditation for anxiety treatment in Niantic, CT, call us 860-451-9364.
Does severe panic and anxiety mean that you have experienced trauma? If you want help with both, we are anxiety and trauma specialists in Niantic, CT.
Often times, when you experience a major life change, you can have high levels of anxiety afterwards. Sometimes, people go through trauma and develop post traumatic stress disorder. Generally, trauma can be anything from sexual abuse, physical abuse, emotional abuse, neglect, or suddenly losing a parent, spouse or sibling. Or, trauma can also be shame from not being accepted as bisexual or transgender by your family. Trauma can also come from bullying. Overall, If you have experienced any of these situations, you are more likely to have severe anxiety. Let us help you feel empowering, strong energy. Therefore, call or text 860-451-9364 to work with one of Southeastern Connecticut anxiety specialists at Wisdom Within Counseling. Lastly, anxiety counseling is a safe place where you can take back your power and reach your wildest dreams naturally.
Benefits of meditation in managing anxiety
First, meditation for anxiety treatment in Niantic, CT is all about relaxing. To add, there are many benefits of meditation and managing anxiety, panic, and worry. Likewise, when you meditate, you can gaze inside, to your own mind. From there, you can learn to create a sense of inner peace and relaxation. Meditation, a form of inner reflection and self awareness, can help you understand the root of your anxiety. Creative art and meditation for anxiety treatment in Niantic, CT is nurturing, gentle, and one-of-a-kind. Call/text 860-451-9364 for a phone consultation for art in therapy and a holistic, creative anxiety management counseling appointment.
Furthermore, meditation can provide you with a blissful mind and can help you slow down your thoughts.
Overall, managing anxiety is a lifestyle choice and it takes time. There’s no quick fix to anxiety. Therefore, the holistic route is to incorporate self love, self care, and start to building a loving relationship with yourself. Remember, anxiety was once there for a good reason, to protect you. Maybe, you’ve been hurt in the past, and you don’t want to get hurt again. Before we try to fix or stop anxiety, we need to acknowledge its purpose. Moreover, guided meditation can help you understand why you may have anxiety in the first place. Looking for a therapist in Niantic, CT with an anxiety treatment speciality? Call/text 860-451-9364 for a phone consultation for alternative, holistic, creative anxiety management.
Other holistic, alternative ways to manage anxiety beyond just psychiatric medication?
Meditation, a positive coping skill, can help you manage anxiety and stress in all areas of your life. Likewise, you can also do yoga poses or take a local yoga class. Generally speaking, yoga poses help improve your flexibility, lower anxiety, improve physical strength, mental endurance, and cardio abilities. But, one time won’t do it. Really, therapy is about a caring, long term relationship with yourself. Overall, by moving energy in a positive, healthy way, through yoga and meditation, you can get healthier. Call/text 860-451-9364 for private yoga lessons and meditation for anxiety treatment in Niantic, CT at Wisdom Within Counseling.
Generally, the team of creative therapists offer a unique, different approach to anxiety treatment.
In Niantic, CT, in therapy for anxiety treatment, you learn skills to feel emotionally confident. For one, you could go outside for a walk and talk therapy session by the Southeastern Connecticut Shoreline. Or, in anxiety counseling, you can do art, paint, draw, or use clay to express yourself. Call/text 860-451-9364 for a phone consultation for alternative, holistic, creative anxiety management.
The holistic, creative approach to anxiety treatment at Wisdom Within Counseling
Did you know you can take holistic skills from your Niantic counseling sessions into life?
Well, you can use the self-love skills you learn as well as art and painting to express your deep emotions to feel confident over anxiety.
Often times, anxiety is the first emotion you might experience. Then, you might feel out of balance, and like your brain is all frozen. Maybe, you have a crazy inner critic. But, deep down you want skills and techniques to get back into being your best self. Overall, working with a Niantic, CT therapist for anxiety and panic disorder can help you develop a positive coping skill toolbox. And, you can take these emotional coping skill toolbox into all walks of life to better manage anxiety.
Helping adolescents and teens with meditation for anxiety treatment in Niantic, CT
Plus, your anxious adolescent can have emotional confidence and self-esteem skills in preparation for teenage years. With a healthy relationship to a therapist as a youth, your teenager can overcome negative behaviors and eating issues. Yoga, in weekly teen counseling, is calming and a healthy lifestyle tool for stress management. Also, yoga helps teens gain self-awareness and positive coping skills for self-love. Call/text 860-451-9364 for yoga, music, walking, art, creativity, and meditation for anxiety treatment in Niantic, CT in therapy.
How to begin a meditation practice at home?
The natural state of your mind is meditation. And, with today’s hustle and bustle and reactive ways of living, we are led to believe the opposite. That is, that meditation is an abnormal way to be. Meditation, really, opens our inherent qualities of relaxation, focus, clarity, and inner peace. Furthermore, meditation supports contentment, from which mental and emotional stability emerge. Moreover, meditation practice predates all religious practice and is not a form of religion. Essentially, meditation is a universal, loving practice.
- Look deeper into yourself, your history, childhood, and your morning
- Be curious about how you can bring in more joy, playfulness, purpose and peace to your life
- Still your breathing and observe your mind
- Notice smells, be come aware of clothing on your skin, and your senses
- And be calm, know you are safe, and feel soothing stillness within.
In this peacefulness, relaxation, and stillness, you will see how your mind can begin to empower you to create the life you deserve! Essentially, you’re slowing down to harness the power of your own mind and soul.
Therefore, there are many forms of meditation. Sometimes, people guide meditations with visualizations. Other ones, meditation is silent. And, all of them are reaching for the same goal. Through Nahi Meditation from Sid McNairy, one of Katie Ziskind’s yoga teachers:
- Settle into a physical space, likely your home but could be in your office, outdoors, or anywhere you prefer
- Set up an altar – a physical representation of your meditation practice. Also, place a fresh flower on your altar or a favorite candle to represent love and the elements.
- Now, add the four elements: water, air, earth, fire. By breathing, you can allow these energies to flow.
- And, add any personal object that represents peace
Remember, your meditation practice is just a self-care and self-love practice. So, don’t be too hard on yourself. Also, you may experience challenges, and you may have spiritual awakenings. Either way, it is a gentle and relaxing practice.
So, simply observe your mind and the best practice is consistent repetition. For instance, try meditation every morning at 9am for eight minutes.
“We are human beings, yet often we feel the need to do so much. But, we are not human doings. Essentially, we are human beings. So just be in your meditation. Allow yourself to be…” – Excerpt taken from Yoga and Life Empowerment: A Six-week, Self-study Practice Using Asana, Meditation & Diet to Achieve Happiness & Peace, by Sid McNairy
For instance, guided meditation for anxiety treatment in Niantic, CT allows you to relax right in session.
In East Lyme, Connecticut, our therapists like to have a meditation at the end of the anxiety counseling session. Really, this is a great way to create closure, interconnection, and go into into the world with positive energy. Moreover, meditation helps you visualize and focus on your physical body, like in a body scan. Try it now. Simply, bring your mind to your body and intentionally focus on your physical body for ten minutes. And, this body scan can help you get present Sometimes, digestion improves from meditation. Also, when are present, it is almost impossible to experience anxiety. Call/text 860-451-9364 for creative anxiety therapy in Southeastern Connecticut.
Why start start counseling now? How meditation for anxiety treatment in Niantic, CT is a positive skill for lifelong wellness?
Unfortunately, if you continue to live with severe anxiety, it can hold you back from reaching your goals. And, you’re not alone. Many people have panic disorder and anxiety. But, Wisdom Within Counseling in Niantic, CT is here to help. For one, you might be afraid to leave your house, and are isolating. Do you stay in and refuse to leave because your anxiety is so high? Well, phone and video counseling can help.
About Katie Ziskind, Therapist in Niantic, Connecticut
Trauma and PTSD Specialist
Marriage and Family Therapist
Child, Teen, and Couples Therapist
Personalized yoga and meditation for anxiety treatment in Niantic, CT
Offering private art, painting, walking, dance, and yoga therapy for teenagers
First, Katie Ziskind BS, MA, LMFT, ERYT200, RYT500 is the owner of Wisdom Within Counseling in Niantic. Further, Katie Ziskind loves helping high schoolers understand relationships and learn self-awareness techniques to create meaningful friendships. Yes, high school can be a challenging time. And, body image issues, eating issues, peer drama, dating, and break ups are stressful. Also, in high school and college years, depression and loneliness can hit heavy after a first break up. Further, a college student can feel like an outcast living far from home, even if he or she is doing well academically. To add, feeling like he or she doesn’t fit in, or doesn’t have friends at college, can lead to isolation and distance. And, having a grandparent pass away while going through a first break up can be such a devastating, compounded, deep loss.
About Wisdom Within Counseling, creative counseling, in the Southeastern Connecticut area
Therefore, Katie Ziskind has created a team of holistic therapists to help your whole family work better together. Additionally, we teach children with ADHD, self-harming teens, and distant couples. Further, you can learn positive anxiety and depression skills to express emotions to create a healthy life. At Wisdom Within Counseling in Niantic, Connecticut, you have a calm, peaceful space to feel acceptance. And, LGBTQIA+ youth, adults, and couples welcome. In her free time, Katie enjoys doing yoga and spending time with her three cats, Jasper, Sarah, and Mini. Read more about the team at WisdomWithin Counseling on their bio pages.
