Anger Management and Counseling in Black Forest, CO.

Is your child aged 4 - 16 demonstrating difficulty with anger? Do they get mad without warning? Is this impacting you at home or their school performance? Counseling/psychotherapy may help your child learn to understand their anger and develop coping skills to manage their anger. Anger is normal, but understanding why we get angry and what we can do when we do is important to be able to work through situations where we are angry. Through a combination of play-based, cognitive behavioral, and dialectical behavioral approaches, I can help your child learn about anger, develop coping strategies, and hopefully reduce their angry outbursts.

Anger is often viewed as "bad" or negative. In an attempt to hide or bury anger, people often develop unhealthy ways of attempting to manage this emotion. When internalized, anger grows and metastasizes into resentment, hatred, bitterness, resulting in depression and a sense of hopelessness. When externalized in a destructive manner, anger can be expressed as abuse, toward self or others. The purpose of anger management is not to deny or suppress anger, as it is a natural part of the human experience. Please allow me to help you navigate toward identifying and expressing anger in a healthy, productive, non-destructive manner.

Anger management counseling can help to identify stressors and learn the steps to stay calm in the face of anger. The goal is to handle tense situations in more constructive and positive ways by reducing the emotional and physical arousal that anger can cause. It will provide the tools to take back your life and resolve the triggers that result in unplanned anger reactions.

Anger can be hurtful and devastating, not only to those around you but to you as well. Anger is actually a healthy and needed emotion. When you are not getting your basic needs for survival met you will feel hurt and frustrated. This is anger. It's actually a necessary feeling but the results can be devastating...unless you get the help you need. Wes Wilson can help you work through your inner hurts and frustrations. You can learn how to address your needs in constructive and effective ways. The anger feelings can be understood finally and your real needs can be met. The old anger feelings can be turned into very effective actions for relief, success and even respect from others.

My approach to anger management includes and goes beyond teaching and acquisition of new skills to control the intensity and manifestation of anger. Understanding the meaning and purpose of the anger and the unacknowledged or unrecognized expectations and interpretations that contribute to the rise of anger are also a focus of the therapy. In my experience, anger is often protective against thoughts, feelings, and/or meanings that somehow seem worse than anger itself.