Anger Management

Learn to manage anger thru self-awareness and self-control

Welcome and congratulations on taking the challenging step to begin working on your anger!  You have made a very important decision to gain skills you will need to avoid emotionally harming others and to learn healthy ways of expressing and experiencing anger.  

We know that this decision takes a great amount of courage and you are to be commended!

Our 12-session anger management program is designed to help your examine yourself so that you have a better understanding of your thought process and decision-making habits.  It will help you understand that the secret to real success is in wanting something so intensely that you are willing to make the sacrifices necessary to achieve it.  Aggression is a learned behavior, an emotion that turns into an action, often without thinking or planning ahead.   Therefore, we teach control, not a cure.  You will need to be aware of and maintain healthy ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving for the rest of their life

Our Denver Anger Management program is self-directed and designed to help them learn by sharing and by doing.  We provide both individual and group anger management services in the Dever area.

We realize that therapy is difficult.  It is difficult because it often brings out an aspect of each person that is not particularly attractive.  However, in order for the renewal process to begin, it is very important for you to get past their level of denial and to look at your own thoughts and behaviors openly and honestly.  You must remember that you are not bad, evil or rotten.  

Controlling Your Anger So It Doesn’t Control You

Anger management counseling can be sought for many reasons. In some cases, a doctor, spouse, or supervisor may recommend it. In other cases, a person may be able to contain physical and verbal expressions of anger, but realize that emotionally, his or her rage surpasses what one should expect in a given situation. At the point of this recognition, a wise person will consider anger management classes, training, or counsel to keep their emotions under check and to manage responses in a healthy way.

The goal of our anger management program is to help you reduce and control both your emotional feelings and the physical arousal that leads to your anger.  When an individual begins to understand why he or she is expressing anger in a certain manor, he or she is beginning to recognize the “trigger,” or the event that is leading him or her to express anger violently or passively.   As individuals begin to understand their “triggers,” they can begin to develop healthy ways of processing the anger before it escalates into an all-out rage or suppressed emotion.   

One of the key fundamentals when learning anger management counseling techniques is to understand that anger is considered a symptom, not the problem; although anger can cause considerable problems. People usually get angry to regain power and control, as well as, to avoid vulnerable feelings such as shame, guilt, rejection, hopelessness, or helplessness.

Any type of personal counseling proceeds effectively when the client admits there is a problem or that others believe he or she has a problem. In this case, anger management counseling will focus on exploring the roots of unresolved anger, discovering triggers of current or unexplained anger, and looking at ways to try and bring anger under reasonable control. Working with a trained anger management counselor, a client will answer many questions about personal history, current conditions, and future expectations. He may even take one or more psychology tests that could provide insight to the patient’s mindset.  

Anger Management Program

Getting out of pain now is always the main focus of solution oriented therapy, so it is usually brief. Some people may need only one session; others, more, but you are always in charge of deciding how many sessions you want.

The topics that are covered in our 12-session Anger Management Program:

Session 1:        The roots of anger
Session 2:        The cycle of abuse
Session 3:        What is my anger telling me?
Session 4:        How to be mindful
Session 5:        Emotion regulation
Session 6:        Tolerating the distresses in life
Session 7:        Understanding your needs
Session 8:        Healthy boundaries
Session 9:        Getting your needs met
Session 10:      Interpersonal Skills
Session 11:      Communication and Assertiveness Skills
Session 12:      Relapse Prevention

 

There are two ways to setup an appointment with one of our counselors:

1) Fill out the Contact Form and a counselor will call you with 24-hours; 2) Call our offices at 303-933-5800.