Anger Management and Counseling in Dade City, FL.

Anger often shows up when something important feels threatened respect, safety, fairness, or control. In anger counseling, I help you understand your anger’s purpose while building the skills to respond with more choice. Using ACT and CBT, we’ll work on noticing early body cues, slowing escalation, and unhooking from “fight” thoughts without stuffing feelings down. You’ll learn practical emotion regulation and communication tools, set boundaries more effectively, and take values-based action, even in heated moments, so anger becomes a signal you can use, not a force that drives your behavior.

Children ages 3-11display anger by acting out. This anger may be due to other underlying issues, such as depression. I use client-centered play therapy in a safe environment, enabling the child to express his/her emotions and thoughts through play. Play Therapy uses play, a child's natural medium of expression, to help them express their feelings more easily through toys instead of words.

Grey Matters International and the work of Kevin J. Fleming, Ph.D approaches issues of anger management in a very humane yet fresh perspective. You see, anger is a normal emotion but it is the valence (intensity) as well as the coupling choice of what one does with this that is the problem. Telling someone to "not" do it or modifying behavior with a trite psychological plan that only breeds a compliant response is not the way to change anger. Brainwave optimization is a new cutting edge technology that allows one to rewire circuitry responsible for reactivity driving the anger. Contact Grey Matters International, Inc now at kevin@kevinflemingphd.com or 877-606-6161.

I help clients understand the triggers and patterns behind their anger and how it affects their thoughts, feelings, and relationships. Together, we practice strategies to manage intense emotions, including distress tolerance skills to stay grounded and interpersonal effectiveness skills to communicate needs assertively. My goal is to help clients respond to challenges with greater control, improve relationships, and develop healthy coping tools that support long-term emotional balance and self-awareness.

Anger is a normal and healthy emotion but can sometimes manifest itself in a very destructive manner. Clients will benefit from learning how to manage their anger in a healthy manner in order to improve relationships and quality of life. Full anger management courses are offered with certification upon completion. For court mandated courses please contact your probation officer for approval.

Having anger issues can make you feel like you are not in control of your own emotions. This may make you feel frustrated or ashamed and can make it difficult to admit that you need help. I'm glad that you did reach out for help with your anger issues. I'm here to offer you help with no judgment, in order to get back to a place where you feel empowered and in control of your emotions and reactions.

Anger is one of the emotions that is often so misunderstood and seen as scary. Sometimes it can lead to people who experience anger being afraid to let others know because they fear judgement or being misunderstood. Often is is just as treatable as anxiety or depression. Understanding our emotions and how to regulate them is key and when we can lean in without judgment to observe the emotions as a curious scientist than solutions become possible. At KML, we focus on DBT heavily when it comes to understanding anxiety and learning new ways to manage it. We also first always ensure yours and others safety and develop a plan if needed. We will not judge you and are here to help you change!

We help our clients to have greater understanding of themselves and their interactions with others to improve the quality of their relationships. We utilize mindfulness, self-exploration, and self-soothing techniques to help improve clients' emotional regulation skills. Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, EMDR or ART, Trauma-Focused CBT, and Existential Therapy are especially helpful for healing trauma and improving interpersonal interactions with others.

In my experience as an EMDR therapist, I pay close attention to the links between past and present. I’ve seen time and time again how unhealed emotional wounds resurface and come out sideways. While anger management can provide helpful strategies, they don’t get to the heart of the issue. Often, anger is what we see on the surface, but the real problem is what’s underneath the anger. Negative beliefs like “I’m helpless,” “I’m out of control,” and “I’m a failure,” start to bubble up, and anger comes to the rescue. It can get us in trouble, but at least it gets the blood pumping. With research-proven EMDR therapy, I help men heal anger at its source so it doesn’t have to be managed.