Anger Management and Counselling in Winnipeg Beach, 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.

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.

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.

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.