Anger Management and Counseling in Newtown, PA.

Anger is a normal feeling that all people experience. The trouble is often when anger leads to aggression or destructive BEHAVIOR. Often anger issues have dramatic costs including in relationships, at work/school, legal issues, and others. Often anger covers underlying emotions that drive anger including sadness, frustration, feeling disrespected, and shame/guilt to name a few. I help my clients understand their anger issues and learn new adaptive ways to cope with this emotion.

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.

Using a structured, yet individualized approach to anger management, I help you identify triggers and thought patterns that lead to issues with anger. Therapy focuses on learning to respond and not react to people, situations, and circumstances that have been troublesome. We cannot control other people, but we can control how we respond to them. I often provide court-mandated anger management.

As a group therapist, helping people address their anger in healthier ways is something we work on regularly and successfully. In the context of the group / team work, clients are encouraged to express their frustrations and irritations in new ways, so that the old 'stuffing feelings until you blow up' is no longer the first coping tool used.

Anger management is often worked through using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help clients increase awareness of their thoughts to help control their reactionary behavior. It can also be approached by looking at family and societal messages that support violent ways of expressing anger. Societal messages directed at men in particular, often support anger as an emotion men should focus on. This often masks other emotions, such as sadness or fear. Social Psychology paired with Emotion Focused Therapy can often help break down such negative messaging as well as increase healthy emotional awareness and expression.

I can help you identify your sources of anger, as well as specific triggers. We can work together to more effectively build specific coping skills, that utilize your strengths. I have specific experience utilizing cognitive behavioral therapy, reframing, and hypnotherapy. You do not have to let your anger control you. I look forward to assisting you in building a more peaceful life.

Are you struggling to manage your anger? Do you find yourself lashing out at loved ones? Would you like to catch yourself before you react so you can choose how to respond? Alisa will teach you how to decrease your anger reactions by bringing down thoughts and feelings of anger, learning how to communicate your anger in calm, respectful ways, and learning effective stress management tools to decrease your chance of reacting. You can have better relationships with your partner, kids, and yourself.

Therapy can be helpful in learning tools for effectively managing feelings of anger and frustration. Therapy can provide you with a toolbox of coping skills. I will work with you to build and help you implement adaptive mechanisms for coping with feelings of anger and frustration. I will help you to reduce angry behaviors and responses and to improve your relationships.

We will explore the meaning and causes of anger issues to help you understand your feelings and regulate your emotions to help you lead a fuller life. By looking at where you came from, where you are, and where you are going, we can progress through a plan to help you feel more in control of your life. This involves looking at your life in new ways.

Anger can be both useful and destructive, it can motivate or it can destroy. Anger can negatively effect your health and welfare. If your anger is destroying your happiness and your relationships it is time to learn new coping tools. Often times beliefs and expectations can lead to rage and anger. I will help you learn about the belief systems that are not serving you well and coach you towards new belief systems. So often our desire for perfection or fairness lead to high levels of frustration. Learning to tolerate and detach can be tools toward serenity and peace. Forgiveness is not for the other person. It is for you. Learn how to channel your anger towards health and happiness.

I create a safe, warm, caring atmosphere so that you can share your painful, feelings of anger, resentment, and bitterness. These feelings, no doubt are negatively impacting you emotionally and causing you major conflicts with your spouse, partner, children, parents, bosses, colleagues or even friends. In addition you probably notice they can cause for you health problems such as high blood pressure, back pain, headaches, stomach and chest pains and possibly even contribute to the development of cancerous tissues. I can help you identify and resolve the underlying hurt, pain, grievances and attack thoughts and learn to let go, release and forgive yourself and others. I offer you a wide va