Anger Management and Counseling in Cleveland, TX.

Don't let anger sabotage your relationships and future. Learn to resolve conflicts, diffuse anger, manage your behavior and live life productively. James helps clients struggling with anger and conflict by giving them tools to resolve their issues and supporting them throughout the growth process. Develop insight through awareness, discover healthy ways to express emotions, and techniques for abating anger. Call today for help.

Very often we look at emotions as good or bad, right or wrong. Anger is a natural part of our emotional experience of life. We experience challenges and frustrations in our daily lives and sometimes it can be difficult to work through the experience with the intensity of anger we may be experiencing. Learning to understand what the anger is about and why it is as intense as it is can help us to move into a new relationship with our anger which allows us to experience it the way we want without guilt or shame.

Struggling with anger can be isolating and overwhelming, but you don't have to navigate this journey alone. We specialize in helping individuals manage their anger in healthy and constructive ways. Through our compassionate and personalized approach, we work together to explore the root causes of your anger, develop coping strategies, and cultivate emotional regulation skills. Our goal is to create a safe and supportive space where you can understand your anger triggers, express yourself authentically, and learn how to respond effectively in challenging situations. You deserve to live a life free from the grip of anger, and we're here to support you every step of the way.

You'll find a secure, accepting environment to explore and comprehend your emotions in our workshops on managing anger. We'll identify the causes of anger and develop useful coping mechanisms so that it may be expressed and dealt with in a healthy way. We'll strive toward long-lasting emotional control and resolution by exploring the underlying issues. I'll provide you useful tips and tricks so you can respond to difficult circumstances with more poise and clarity. You will gain the abilities and self-awareness necessary to promote better relationships and handle life's issues with a more impartial viewpoint through our therapeutic partnership.

Anger has everything to do with personal history and hurt. Checking into these bottom lines yields clarity and growth. I am deeply aware of/value your story. Yet I also understand the necessity of taking responsibility for the effect our downward spirals have on those we love. Anger therapy walks the line between uncovering painful wounds, turning related conceptual "lights" on and ultimately doing the "head, heart and gut-checks" necessary to heal and move into a more healthy emotional/behavioral life. You'll find the support and tools to accomplish each of these here. I'd be honored to walk with you!

As a culture, we do not do well with healthy expressions of anger. Often we are raised to suppress it and then we have limited practice at dealing with big emotion. There is a spectrum of healthy aggression- to keep us safe and to maintain boundaries- and rage- our body's strategy for safety. Anger management is about applying the right "dosing" to maintain boundaries yet not fracture relationships or suffer other losses. I am able to help you learn to regulate your body to be able to apply the appropriate "dose" to be effective and not destructive.

The Anger Management Therapy that I provide incorporates the materials of an Anger Management Course that was developed through extensive research and published by a governmental entity: Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services (SAMHSA). This program is uniquely beneficial for its ability to be offered in either a group setting or in one-on-one individual therapy. Another benefit of this particular program is that it is a manualized treatment - with statistically proven results - that incorporates session work, as well as homework, in order to maximize the benefits gained from the program between sessions. This program was also developed to accommodate individuals w/a substance abuse history

Anger doesn’t have to equal rage. We can learn how to express angry feelings in ways which don’t cause fear in the people around us. Sometimes our feelings for a person are more possessive than loving. We can use humor in the form of sarcasm, masking our anger instead of sharing our feelings in a healthy way. It might feel like we go from 0-100 on the anger scale quickly, but it is a process similar to dominoes falling one after the other. If we can learn to recognize the process that occurs and slow it down in our mind, we can make better choices and express our feelings without the trauma, emotional and even physical damage that rage and anger inflicts on ourselves and those around us.

Why do we get angry? A lot of the time it is because we aren't getting what we want or what we think we deserve. Anger can cause people to do things they normally wouldn't want to do and even lead to consequences that could've been prevented had you had some better communication tools. Anger is a normal emotion. If you don't feel anger, you are not alive, at least in my opinion. We will uncover those false beliefs about anger and try and replace them with new, healthy beliefs that will help you live a happier life.

Whatever the issue, road rage, workplace frustration, interpersonal relationships, let me help you work through your anger. I utilize a combination of Mindfulness and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. The goal is to help you first recognize your anger as it manifests in your body, and then as you relax think through what your triggers are and how to keep your emotions from getting out of control. I look forward to hearing for you.

Anger is a very normal emotion. Everyone experiences anger especially if we are threatened or mistreated, however if anger becomes too extreme, it can really disconnect and damage relationships and keep you from having a productive life. Therapy can help you manage your anger and help you communicate effectively what you really need so you are taken seriously.