Stress and anger management therapy explained

Everyone gets angry or stressed at times but for some stress and anger can become their ‘go-to’ emotion.
The goal of stress and 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 or stress you, nor can you change them, but you can learn to control your reactions.

Through learning stress and anger management therapy techniques you can start to effectively manage destructive outbursts and negative thought patterns brought on by stress and anger. You’ll learn how to break out of this endless cycle and feel calmer and more at ease. By working with a therapist you’ll discover and explore your causes of your stress and anger.
Only by understanding the source of your stress and anger can you reduce the intensity with which you feel it. It then becomes much easier to control the accompanying behaviour.

A closer look at stress management…

Stress can be described as a response to the demands and trials of everyday life that manifests as both thoughts and feelings. Smaller issues daily or a sudden change to your environment such as marital difficulties or bereavement can increase stress. Stress management can be defined as the therapies implemented to help a person control their level of stress in the hope of increasing everyday well-being.
Our trained therapists will evaluate your stress level and advise what therapies would best suit you. Small amounts of stress are easy for people to cope with. However, whenever a situation or stimulus that causes stress is left for too long, it can overwhelm the person and cause them to feel physical and emotional distress.
Most commonly, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is employed to help you change a negative way of thinking into something more positive, although there are many other stress management techniques that therapists can use.
How stress management can help you:
● The vast amount of techniques available allow us to provide a unique, personalised programme to get you the results you deserve
● It will help to clear your current stress issues and help you to handle any future problems with a lot more positivity
● You may learn to recognise your personal stress triggers and how to avoid/deal with them in the future

Treatments and therapies used in stress management counselling

Our approach to stress management contains a mix of holistic therapies that aim to treat the underlying issue rather than a symptom. We know that ‘one size doesn’t fit all’ and that each of our clients is different with their own set of unique needs and circumstances.
With stress therapy, we teach you coping strategies and stress management techniques to improve your well-being. Everyone has different levels of stress and different feelings about stress, but we will find the solutions that suit you. Typically we use a combination of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), and hypnotherapy as well as psychotherapy and counselling techniques.

A stress management case study

Alex was a senior level executive who was causing conflict with his colleagues as a result of how he was handling his stress levels. He had frequent angry outbursts and confrontations at work. This behaviour was also having a serious impact on the morale of the team that he was managing. By exploring the nature of some of these incidents, I was able to help Alex rationalise why some of the clashes had been occurring. Many of the clashes seemed to stem from feelings of stress.
I helped him increase his awareness of the thoughts, feelings, and behaviours linked to this. This meant we were then able to look at practical strategies for addressing these. We included basic relaxation and time management skills, as well as alternative thinking patterns.
Over the course of the six sessions, Alex noticed a significant reduction in the number of disputes that he encountered at work. He also noticed an improvement in his levels of productivity at work and was also able to begin to improve his sleep patterns.

What can you expect from a stress and anger management counselling session?

Our stress and 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.