Anger Management and Counselling in Beausejour, MB.

Anger is often a response to a perception of threat. This could be overt or covert. Neural pathways long established in childhood, perceive something in your immediate environment as a threat and recall a felt sense of danger from earlier experiences. When this occurs, our amygdala perceives threat and our survival instincts kick in and take over as anger, the "fight" response. Understanding what we are triggered by and how to manage the survival instinct teaches new strategies and skills for managing this reflex action. Assertive skills, understanding passive-aggressive tendencies, and getting out underlying needs recognized and met can help alleviate angry outbursts.

Sometimes, it is difficult to manage emotions that come with life situations. These life events may not always be predictable. Counselling can help to identify strategies to increase self-awareness, regulate emotions, and develop coping strategies for when the anger emotions interrupt positive, healthy living. Whether it is increasing stress that impacts your health, or interrupting positive communications with others, counselling may help.

Anger often stems from feeling so many emotions all at once. You lose a sense of control. You go from 0 to 100 in a blink of an eye. By getting angry you’re attempting to regain control that’s presumed lost. But instead, you’re full of guilt and shame. Feeling angry and reacting in anger, is simply exhausting. I’ll help you learn how to regain control, in a healthy way.

Cognitiver Behavior Therapy provides the best perspective in understanding anger and developing anger management skills. This means that ... 1. It is not events that make us angry, but rather our intepretations of events. Anger arises when we believe we are treated unfairly or unjustly. 2. We are individually responsible for the expression of our anger. 3. Anger is a secondary emotion. We need to identify and tend to the primary emotion. 4. The thoughts that generate anger are usually distorted. 5. The aggressive expression of anger wil not get us what we need or want. 6. We can learn positive and constructive ways in which to communicate frustration and anger.

Anger can often feel so overwhelming that it causes you to do things you later regret. Not knowing what came over you, there are many unanswered questions: why do I keep doing this? why can't I stop myself? Sometimes, alcohol, substances, or other addictive behaviours lead to this anger, making it more difficult to control. As an addiction counsellor, I help clients overcome addictions leading to anger issues so they can regain a sense of control, rebuild relationships, and gain clarity about how to move forward. If you are unsure where to start, send me a message and I can help. If I'm not the right fit, I can connect you to the right support so you can start gaining back control, today.

Anger is a natural emotion and a warning sign to identify a real or perceived threat or blocked goal. In itself it is not wrong, but it has the potential to harm our health, relationships, and careers if it is not understood. As you identify underlying issues, and recognize early signs of anger you will be able to implement new ways to manage your response, increasing self-esteem and hope.

Anger, unlike other emotions, can give us a sense of power and strength. It can protect us from feeling more vulnerable emotions such as hurt, sadness, guilt, and shame. Anger can also take us down a path that destroys relationships with others, including intimate partner violence (IPV), and cause us to feel regret and remorse. This may even result legal issues, such as a restraining order or criminal charges. With counselling, you can learn to understand how the brain functions when upset and manage how you experience emotions, including anger, and not let it get away from you.

Everyone experiences the emotion of anger, in fact anger can be a very useful emotion as it tells us that something is wrong. Yet when it is not managed, anger can lead to consequences that can destroy one’s relationships, job security, and physical health. The good news is that managing anger is a learned skill and even if you have learned bad habits in this area, you can unlearn and relearn better ones.