CBT and anger management therapy – using CBT to break the cycle and control your anger issues
Using CBT to control your anger and aggression - learn valuable techniques to break the endless cycle of anger and feel calmer and more at ease.
Anger management therapy explained
Everyone gets angry sometimes but for some anger and aggression can become their ‘go-to’ emotion.
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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Using CBT to treat anger issues
At Pinnacle 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. We use a combination of therapies for anger management, one of the primary treatments is Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT).
What is CBT?
CBT is about looking at the relationship between your thoughts and feelings, and how they make you ‘default’ to certain behaviours. It’s seen as a different kind of ‘talking therapy’ that aims to solve a person’s current problems. In effect it helps you become your own therapist, where you use the skills you have learned.
By using CBT, we can help make you aware of what your own defaults are: sometimes they help us, sometimes they don’t – CBT helps you recognise those different responses for what they are.
How does CBT help?
CBT teaches how we can break out of those default patterns to become more resilient in situations we may find uncomfortable or stressful by identifying where we respond negatively and then challenging those negative thoughts with alternative, positive ones.
CBT is a way to rewire the software of your brain, rehearsing troubling situations in your mind in order to create alternative ways of thinking when that situation arises again. In effect, you’re creating new mental circuitry by challenging and changing old responses that feel hardwired in, but aren’t.
With CBT, the therapist acknowledges that there may be behaviours that you cannot control through rational thought. Rather, these harmful coping strategies are as a result of prior conditioning from the environment and other internal or external stimuli.
By taking (what can feel like) insurmountable tasks and teaching you how to apply a pragmatic and objective viewpoint to these issues, CBT gradually changes the way you look at everyday challenges.
“We all have our default ways of dealing with situations. Most of us aren’t even aware of what they are. And some of the time they work. But like a tradesmen who turns up to every job with the same couple of tools, there will be situations where those tools just aren’t the right ones. CBT makes you aware and gives you a versatile practical set of life skills to become more agile, versatile and resilient for whatever life throws at you.”
Richard Reid - CEO, Therapist & Coaching Psychologist
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What can you expect from a CBT and 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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