Anger management therapy – break the cycle and learn to control your reactions
Anger management therapy - learn how to break the endless cycle of anger and feel calmer and more at ease.
Anger management therapy explained
The goal of anger management counselling is to reduce both your emotional feelings and the physiological response that anger causes. You can't get rid of, or avoid, the things or the people that enrage you, nor can you change them, but you can learn to control your reactions.
Through learning anger management therapy techniques you can start to effectively manage destructive outbursts of rage. You’ll learn how to break out of the endless cycle of anger and feel calmer and more at ease. By working with a therapist you’ll discover and explore your causes of your anger.
Only by understanding the source of your anger can you reduce the intensity with which you feel it. It then becomes much easier to control the accompanying behaviour.
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One of the first steps towards successful anger control therapy is to ask yourself these questions:
● How do I allow others to enrage me?
● How do I wind myself up?
● How did I experience anger in my family?
● What effect does my anger have on my loved ones?
Make new choices - how does anger management treatment help?
Do your anger issues make you angrier still? Are you ashamed of your behaviour? Do you struggle to feel ‘in control’? Our anger management treatment therapy will show you simple alternatives of how to express yourself so that you strengthen relationships rather than damage them.
Changing your behaviour will change how you feel about yourself and how you interact with those closest to you, and the world in general. You’ll learn to express your feelings and needs positively and start to transform the most important relationships in your life.
Treatments and therapies used in anger management counselling
At Pinnacle we use a range of different therapies to treat anger management. We know that ‘one size doesn’t fit all’ and that each of our clients is different and has their own set of unique needs and circumstances. Typically we use a combination of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), and hypnotherapy as well as psychotherapy and counselling techniques.
Client success stories
An anger management therapy case study
John was a successful businessman in his late thirties. He came for therapy sessions after a major outburst with a colleague at work. Apparently, this was the latest in a long line of incidents.
Over the course of the next several weeks, our psychotherapist worked with John on what it feels like to be angry. He provided him with educational materials about what happens biologically in the body when we become angry and how it affects blood pressure, heart rate and the “fight or flight” instinctual response. He also helped him to identify what his response was to those biological urges when he became angry.
The psychotherapist also assigned homework for John to complete between sessions. He asked him to keep a log of every time he became angry for a week. John was shocked to discover that he got angry almost every day and usually several times each day. Although he knew he had a problem, he had not thought it was all that bad. Now he had it facing him in black and white.
As the psychotherapist helped John become more self-aware, John began to change his reactions when he became angry. The psychotherapist taught him alternative behaviours that were more healthy for him and for the person he was angry at. He taught him how to be responsible for his own feelings by using “I” statements that identified his feelings to the person he was talking to. He also talked to him about the difference between being aggressive and being assertive.
At the end of eight weeks of therapy sessions, John was able to understand how to identify when he was getting angry and engage in alternative behaviours that were healthier for everyone involved.
What can you expect from an anger management counselling session?
Our anger management therapy sessions are tailored to suit your needs. We work with individuals, couples, teens, and groups.
Our sessions usually last from 30 minutes to an hour; and our courses usually consist of around 6 to 12 sessions.
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