Kids Disorder Management

Children pick up unhealthy coping mechanisms due to various factors.

Manage emotional, behavioural, and social challenges using age-appropriate therapy for your child.

Unlock a child’s true potential by providing a safe and trustworthy space to unlearn unhealthy patterns. Help your child achieve a happier, healthier version of themselves. Guide them to develop positive behaviors and eliminate negative thoughts and beliefs.

Dr. Kirti Choudhary, an expert child psychologist at Sukoon Counselling, ensures the emotional & mental well-being of your child with personalized counseling and evidence-based therapy.

Eating Disorders

Eating disorders are serious mental and physical illnesses. Many children develop unhealthy and complex relationships with food. Not only that, they also have distorted views about their body, weight and appearance.

Whether it’s psychological factors or social stressors, Sukoon Counselling helps children, adolescents and the parents to remove what caused the issue.

Eating Disorders

What Causes Eating Disorders?

Irregular and unhealthy eating behaviors happen due to many reasons. Some of them are:

Parents or siblings who’ve had an eating disorder.
Stress.
Weight Bullying.
Symptoms of starvation.
Family-related discussions around weight and food that affect self-view.
Co-occurring mental disorders such as social anxiety, depression, etc.
Trauma.
Social views and culture around one’s physical attributes, food habits.

Symptoms of an Eating Disorder in Kids

Toddlers/ Young Kids

Picky Eaters. Sensitivity to certain textures, smells, or appearance (Generally due to new experiences or underlying conditions like Autism). Distress around mealtime. Encourage the child to revert to healthy eating habits. Set up a realistic attitude towards weight. Transverse towards a positive body image.

Adolescents

Frequent comments about weight/appearance. Skipping Meals or refusing to eat high-sugar or high-fat food. Fear of weight gain. Weight fluctuations. Preoccupations with food. Restrictive food intake. Avoidance of certain foods. Binge Eating. Excessive overthinking about food. Distressing thoughts. Anxiety with weight and shape. Purging by vomiting or laxative misuse. Excessive Exercise.

Attachment Disorders

Attachment difficulties develop when a close bond doesn’t develop between the child and the main caregiver – parents, grandparents, etc. Such children have behavioural and emotional difficulties that also makes it difficult for them to deal with new experiences and new relationships. Most importantly, if ignored, this leads to mental health conditions like depression, learning disabilities, disruptive behaviour, and teenage issues like low self-esteem, substance abuse, etc.

Attachment Disorder Symptoms

Recognise the signs of insecure attachments and come to us to get help quickly.

Struggle to control or express anger.
Poor eye contact.
A need for control.
Emotionally detached.
Problems with self-monitoring.
Struggle with affection.

Types of Attachment Disorder

Counseling & Therapy are best for the treatment of Attachment Disorders. Our child counsellor is specially trained to help young people overcome challenges with attachment.

Disinhibited Social Engagement Disorder (DSED).
Inhibited Reactive Attachment Disorder.
Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD).

Somatoform Disorders

In Somatic symptom disorder (SSD, formerly known as somatization disorder or somatoform disorder), a child has physical or bodily illness such as pain, without a traceable physical cause.

Symptoms of SSD

Somatic disorder symptoms usually involve constant worry and thoughts of potential illness.

Symptoms may appear as

Pain
Fever
Fatigue
Neurological issues
Gastrointestinal issues
Shortness of breath

Professional Counseling for Child Disorder Management

Our licensed therapist performs detailed assessments and evaluates children using scientifically approved tools and worksheets. Based on the outcome, we use therapies and counseling services to treat mental disorders in kids.

Family Therapy

Multi-family therapy and Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFFT) are effective in addressing communication struggles. Family therapy, also known as the Maudsley approach, guides family members to be a healthy and nurturing support system that promotes healthy eating habits and positive interactions. Family therapies prove beneficial to the child as they successfully form a strong bond with their parents and vice versa too.

Individual Counseling

Most importantly, our combined approach of individual Counseling along with consistent follow-up with the child and family supports a complete recovery journey.

Integrative Cognitive-Affective Therapy (ICAT)

Our child psychologist provides integrated sessions for emotional regulation that help in reducing binge eating and associated eating disorders. Additionally, we provide practical guidance on nutrition to teenagers and adolescents that helps them develop healthier relationships with food.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

Psychotherapy, such as CBT, uses cognitive-behavioral principles to develop healthier thinking and a positive attitude. They help the child with tools and strategies to build secure attachment, challenge negative beliefs, and address negativity.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

Talk therapy that helps the child learn positive behavior that helps them deal with stress, negative emotions, etc. Our treatment plans help them to manage their negative thoughts and have tools to take positive behavioral actions.

Play Therapy

Through play therapy, young kids learn to hold attention, social skills and express themselves in a playful approach. Remove what troubles them and rediscover their true potential. Sukoon Counselling offers a safe & caring offline and online space to nurture emotional well-being, improve relationships, and create happier, healthier lives.

FAQs

Is this just a "phase" or a real problem?

Whether it’s just a phase or a real issue depends on the problem’s intensity, duration, and impairment. If the issue (picky eating, extreme weight management, attachment issues, somatic pains with no real problem) affects daily life and lasts for weeks, it’s time to seek professional help.

I have been trying extreme ways to manage weight. I self-induce throwing up after each meal. Do I have an eating disorder?

Food is a necessity for the human body. If you feel extremely conscious of food intake or generally feel guilty whenever consuming food, there may be underlying issues that need to be addressed. Consult Sukoon Counselling online as well as offline to get out of mental problems.

How long does eating disorder treatment take?

Our child psychologist evaluates the child. Based on the severity of the eating disorder and the tenure of its presence, counseling and therapy sessions will be charted out. Eating disorders usually need a combination of individual counseling, family counseling apart from other scientific therapies like CBT and DBT.

How do I differentiate whether my toddler is a picky eater or has an eating disorder?

Picky eating can result from a variety of reasons.

It can either happen due to ARFID (Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder) or even autism.

However, many toddlers and kids fuss around the food due to sensory sensitivities to textures, smells, or appearance. Which may or may not go away with time.

There can also be a general resistance to trying new food items and textures.

Then, many fuss when they are switched to self-feed from being fed.

A child psychologist will be able to distinguish between both and suggest a corrective action plan.

My 6-year-old child has been overtly friendly with strangers since our separation. What am I dealing with?

Attachment issues can crop up from neglect, abandonment, and trauma as well as from depression, anxiety and stress. Since children have a deep attachment to their parents in their early years of growth, separation may give anxiety, neglect or abandonment.

Seek child therapies from Sukoon Counselling to help your child successfully tread through this rough phase.

My child complains frequently of stomachaches, gastric issues, or headaches. We have gone through various tests. But the doctors say everything is normal. Where is the pain coming from?

Yes, the pain is real. In Somatic Symptom Disorder, the body experiences pain even though there is no physical cause.

As some children find it hard to express their distress in words, the pain is usually a manifestation of some unattended underlying stress, emotional distress, and anxiety that the child may be going through.

Take the help of renowned child psychologist Dr. Kirti Choudhary to counsel the child and help them come out of their internal pain.

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