Anger Management and Counseling in Dunedin, FL.

I often coach men on how to better regulate their emotions, including anger. I can teach you strategies from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, provide relationship insights from the Gottman Method, and help you practice calming strategies to take control back. You might have every right to be angry. But if it’s making things worse, it’s time for a change. At Lion Counseling, our mission is to help you escape the cages that hold you back and become the lion God created you to be.

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.

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.

I offer skills training to help individuals learn to be assertive rather than passive or aggressive. We will utilize scenarios and rehearse more effective ways of dealing with other people's anger and your own anger. We live in a fast paced, complex, multi faceted society with many stressors coming at us from poor driver's to rude service people. There are many opportunities every day to allow ourselves to express anger inappropriately. My goal is to help individuals learn effective coping strategies and ways to express & deal with anger appropriately. But also, behind anger is usually a lot of pain or hurt. It is important to learn the source of that pain.

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.

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.

Psychotherapy offers a structured process for managing anger, often using CBT and EMDR. Therapy helps individuals understand anger triggers, thoughts, and emotions. CBT provides tools to challenge angry thinking, improve communication, and build coping skills for frustration. EMDR can address past trauma contributing to anger issues. This empowers self-awareness, healthier responses, improved relationships, and greater emotional control.

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.

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!

Anger and rage can incapacitate you to the point of poisoning all your relationships, career and all aspects of your life. This also would include hindering your relationship with God. This ministry is successful in bringing you deliverance, healing and peace from the removal of your anger/rage and restoring you to relationships and your fellowship with God. Do not wait. Contact me today!